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🔥 Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
A vulnerability in Slack AI allows attackers to exfiltrate data from private channels via indirect prompt injection.
🔥 Zed AI
Zed AI launches a powerful text editor integrating LLMs for coding, enhancing productivity with features like an assistant panel and inline transformations.
🔥 Transformers for Ruby
Transformers for Ruby offers state-of-the-art transformer models, enabling advanced NLP capabilities in Ruby applications.
🔥 Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
OpenAI launches fine-tuning for GPT-4o, enhancing performance and customization for developers with free training tokens available.
🔥 I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company
A discarded NUC reveals sensitive data from a failed AI healthcare startup, raising concerns about data security and privacy.
6th-generation Waymo Driver
Waymo unveils its 6th-generation Driver, enhancing performance, safety, and cost-efficiency for autonomous vehicles in diverse conditions.
Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI
Condé Nast partners with OpenAI to share content, aiming to boost revenue amid industry challenges while addressing copyright concerns.
'Model collapse'? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom
Experts warn of "model collapse," where AI systems may degrade due to reliance on AI-generated data, risking quality and diversity.
The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
The AI photo editing era is here, prompting debates on authenticity versus enhancement in personal photography.
Dropbox Acquires Reclaim.ai
Dropbox has acquired Reclaim.ai to enhance productivity tools, promising continued support and new features for users.
Host Your Own Copilot
Self-hosting coding copilots offers privacy, cost savings, and flexibility, with open-source models rivaling commercial options.
8 Year old girl coding with AI
An 8-year-old girl impressively builds a chatbot in 45 minutes using AI, highlighting the future of coding.
Waymo now serves over 100k paid trips per week
Waymo celebrates surpassing 100k paid trips weekly, highlighting progress towards a safer future in autonomous rides.
New Phi-3.5 Models from Microsoft, including new MoE
Microsoft's new Phi-3.5-MoE model enhances multilingual capabilities and reasoning, supporting 128K context length for AI applications.
Show HN: I Made an AI Song Generator
AI Song Generator allows users to create unique songs effortlessly by inputting simple text, with various music styles available.
OpenAI Partners with Condé Nast
OpenAI partners with Condé Nast to enhance AI-driven news discovery and delivery through ChatGPT and SearchGPT features.
Show HN: Painless Data Extraction and Web Automation
AgentQL simplifies web data extraction using natural language, enhancing automation and reliability amid changing website structures.
Trump posts deepfakes of Swift, Harris and Musk in effort to shore up support
Trump shares AI-generated deepfakes of Swift, Harris, and Musk to boost support, raising concerns over election disinformation.
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
Colleges struggle with rising AI cheating, prompting calls for new teaching methods and integrity measures amid widespread misconduct.
Hugging Face replacing Git LFS storage back end
XetHub partners with Hugging Face to replace Git LFS, enhancing AI collaboration with faster, more efficient storage solutions.
Beating ColBERT: Experiment shows better retrieval with output token embeddings
Dense embedding models can rival specialized late interaction models in retrieval performance by using output token embeddings effectively.
Perspectives for first principles prompt engineering
Effective prompt engineering enhances LLM output alignment, utilizing perspectives like "stochastic parrots" and "pseudocognitive artifacts."
Justine Tunney on X: "I just launched whisperfile"
Justine Tunney launched whisperfile, a local tool that converts audio to text and translates non-English speech.
How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet's Biggest Scammer
AI-generated deepfake videos of Elon Musk have scammed millions, exploiting his likeness to lure victims into fraudulent investments.
Show HN: SmolCopilot – 360M LLM writing assistant in the browser
SmolCopilot is a 360M LLM browser-based writing assistant, offering local, private, and customizable AI capabilities.
Analyzing Media Bias with AI
AI analyzes media bias across major outlets, revealing trends and ratings that align with conventional perceptions of political leanings.
Forget No‐Code. The Future Is All‐Code (Thanks to LLMs)
LLMs are transforming coding, making it more accessible and customizable, blurring lines between code and no-code solutions.
Llamafile v0.8.13 (and Whisperfile)
Llamafile v0.8.13 enhances performance and adds Whisper speech-to-text support, enabling efficient audio transcription.
Show HN: We remove technical difficulties to reach AI on your projects /w Aicado
Aicado offers a no-code platform for easy AI integration into businesses, enabling users to customize and implement various AI models.
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Earthquakes with Unprecedented Accuracy
UT Austin's AI predicts 70% of earthquakes, enhancing preparedness and risk management, with potential global applications.
Show HN: Flux LoRA Model Library
The Flux LoRA Model Library offers a collection of Flux LoRA models for various projects, including FAQs on usage and adaptation.
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection
Slack AI is vulnerable to data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection, increasing security risks.