Tag: #AI

Conference Paper Finds Many Chatbots Promote Sponsored Options, Often Without Clear Disclosure

Conference paper testing 23 LLMs found many steered users to pricier sponsored options and frequently failed to disclose sponsorship.

#ai, #advertising, #chatbots, #consumerprotection

Nvidia Teams with Six Wall Street Firms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion for AI Infrastructure

Nvidia is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR to create financing platforms aiming to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure.

$NVDA, #nvidia, #ai, #finance, #wallstreet

Google Says Gemini App Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users

Google announced Aug. 11 that its Gemini app has exceeded 1 billion monthly users, marking rapid growth and deep integration across Google products.

$GOOGL, $GOOG, #google, #gemini, #ai

Study finds structured-output decoding can enable 'control-plane' jailbreaks in LLMs

Researchers find constrained-output grammars can be exploited to jailbreak LLMs; DictAttack hit up to ~99% success on flagship models, paper says.

#ai, #security, #llm, #jailbreak

Preprint finds flaw that let researchers decode encrypted chain-of-thought blobs from major LLM APIs

An arXiv preprint says a cross-model replay flaw let researchers decode encrypted chain-of-thought blobs from major LLM APIs, exposing PII and credentials.

#ai, #security, #privacy, #openai

9th Circuit Vacates Injunction Against Perplexity, Says Users — Not Perplexity — Accessed Amazon

A Ninth Circuit panel vacated an injunction against Perplexity’s Comet assistant, ruling the record shows users — not Perplexity — accessed Amazon.

$AMZN, #amazon, #perplexity, #cfaa, #ai, #ninthcircuit

Researchers Find Position-Independent KV Cache Reuse Can Let One User Hijack Another’s LLM Output

Researchers show position-independent KV-cache reuse in LLM inference can let attackers' context influence other users' outputs, posing risks for shared serving.

#ai, #security, #infrastructure, #ml, #llm

Amazon says custom chips surpass $25 billion annual run rate as Trainium and Graviton power AWS AI

Amazon reports its custom-silicon business topped a $25B annualized run rate, citing Trainium, Graviton and multi-year AI customer commitments.

$AMZN, #amazon, #aws, #ai, #chips

EU to Begin Enforcing AI-Transparency Rules on Aug. 2, 2026

From Aug. 2, companies serving the EU must disclose AI interactions and mark synthetic audio, image, video and text under Article 50 — violations face heavy fines.

#ai, #eu, #regulation, #transparency

AI agents can run experiments and draft papers but fail to produce publishable research, study finds

A new preprint shows AI agents can handle engineering tasks—code, experiments and paper drafts—but failed to make publishable advances in two NeurIPS case studies.

#ai, #research, #machinelearning, #neurips

Samsung Posts Record Q2 Earnings as AI Memory Chips Drive Profits

Samsung posted record Q2 revenue and operating profit, driven almost entirely by booming AI memory-chip sales (HBM4) while phones lagged.

#samsung, #semiconductors, #ai, #earnings

Preprint: Larger LLMs May 'Snowball' Hallucinations Faster in Long Factual Answers

A July arXiv preprint finds larger language models start stronger but may compound hallucinations faster within long factual responses.

#ai, #language-models, #hallucinations

Meta signs EU transparency code for AI‑generated content ahead of Aug. 2 rules

Meta signed the EU's voluntary Code of Practice on transparency for AI‑generated content, seeking a clearer path to comply before Aug. 2.

$META, #meta, #ai, #eu, #transparency

Oxford preprint finds GraphCast and NeuralGCM fail basic coordinate-change tests

An Oxford preprint on arXiv reports GraphCast and NeuralGCM fail latitude/longitude flips and rotations, raising questions about physical generalization.

#ai, #weather, #climate, #ml

White House Announces Expansion of Genesis Mission, Citing More Than $5 Billion in Federal Commitments

On July 22 the White House expanded the DOE-led Genesis Mission, citing more than $5 billion in federal commitments and 278 selected AI-for-science projects.

#ai, #genesismission, #departmentofenergy, #federalpolicy