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“ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence. Earlier this week in Geneva, around 50 leading global initiatives and organisations dedicated to open-source LLMs …
Sally McLaren post on LinkedIn: “Can you trust AI in legal research? Our study tested how leading Generative AI tools responded to fake case citations and the results were eye-opening. While some models correctly flagged the fabricated case, others confidently generated detailed but entirely false legal content, even referencing real statutes and cases. Our table …
Netcraft: “When Netcraft researchers asked a large language model where to log into various well-known platforms, the results were surprisingly dangerous. Of 131 hostnames provided in response to natural language queries for 50 brands, 34% of them were not controlled by the brands at all. Two-thirds of the time, the model returned the correct URL. …
Brainyacts: “What we know so far: Some users got access to a new tool called “Study together”, which acts differently and guides you through the study process step by step. penAI is preparing a new feature called “Study together”, which has started appearing in system hints for some users within ChatGPT’s main prompt, alongside familiar …
Reuters – no paywall: “OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s, market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse …
MakeUseOf: “Coming back to Last.fm after being away for years felt like stepping into a familiar space that had somehow gotten better with age. The magic of Last.fm lies in its transparent and organic approach to finding the music you like. Unlike Spotify’s black-box algorithm, Last.fm shows me exactly how its recommendations work. When I …
Ars Technica: “Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely,” including deleted and temporary chats. But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI’s request, immediately denied OpenAI’s objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company’s claims that the order …
KM World, Marydee Ojala – “Attention to AI technologies, including generative AI and agentic AI, has escalated significantly since we expanded our list to 100 companies last year. It seems almost intuitively obvious to say there’s been a revolutionary transformation in KM, driven by and pushed into due to AI technologies. On the one hand, …
Calishat: “I’ve been on a bit of a local search kick lately. Last month I created No Kings TV, which monitored news about the protests in 20 different US metro areas. Shortly after that, I made Local News TV, which lets users browse 660 local American TV stations by state/metro area and get recent content …
Open Access, The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present Edited by VÉRONIQUE POUILLARD and VINCENT DUBÉ-SENÉCA Via Metafilter: “Fashion through space and time” – “Wedding dress sketches (introduction) in the Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon collection, evening gowns (introduction) in the Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon collection, Jerry Miller shoe sketches, and an …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 5, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
Follow up to Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models via The Guardian: “Last week, tech companies notched several victories in the fight over their use of copyrighted text to create artificial intelligence products. Anthropic: A US judge has ruled that Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, use of books to …
