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How do you actually keep up with everything in AI?
19Jul By The AI ReportNo Comments
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How do you actually keep up with everything in AI?

I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing this, but I’m struggling to find AI information that is genuinely useful or interesting. I follow a few podcasts and newsletters (around 2 podcasts and 4/5 newsletters focused on AI), but lately it feels like none of them provide any value. These are some of the most popular and widely followed sources, so maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t understand how people keep finding them useful. Many newsletters seem to be AI generated or heavily automated and while I understand why that makes sense from a productivity perspective, the quality feels worse (or there isn't at all). Most of what I read feels repetitive, exaggerated or just empty hype. Most podcasts lose me after 10 minutes because they either repeat the same talking points or spend ...
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Chinese open-weight model beats Opus 4.8 on some benchmarks, first time this has happened
19Jul By The AI ReportNo Comments
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Chinese open-weight model beats Opus 4.8 on some benchmarks, first time this has happened

Moonshot released Kimi K3 July 17: 2.8 trillion parameters, fully open-source. Artificial Analysis independently ranks it ahead of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on frontier benchmarks, first Chinese open-weight model to do that. Still behind Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 overall, but Moonshot doesn't claim otherwise. Artificial Analysis and Arena.ai placed it there independently. It also topped web interface engineering evals in blind human-preference comparisons against Claude Fable. Three competing Chinese AI companies (Zhipu, MiniMax, Z.ai) lost 15-28% of their value in a single day. Nasdaq dropped, Nvidia briefly surrendered its most-valuable-company spot to Apple. Companies don't sell off like that over a research demo. Moonshot's moving to IPO within six months, targeting $30B+ valuation, pricin...
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Prompt injection works on Telegram romance scam bots
18Jul By The AI ReportNo Comments
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Prompt injection works on Telegram romance scam bots

Tried prompt injection on a bot that was trying to romance scam me. Worked immediately. Instead of switching platforms I just asked it what its actual task was. It dropped the persona instantly. These things are everywhere now. How long until they're indistinguishable? submitted by /u/NeoLogic_Dev [link] [comments]
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17Jul By The AI ReportNo Comments
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update on the browser extension that fact checks YouTube videos AS YOU WATCH

HI all, First, thank you so much for your feedback and interest in my project PopUpFactCheck. When I first posted about this July 1, I did not expect the reception it would get and I am so thankful to y'all. Some updates. You asked for Firefox, and it is now a Firefox add-on. It has new features. For example, using the up and down arrows on Chrome (or Option (⌥) + ↑/↓ on Firefox) you can scroll back and forth of the factcheck bubbles already displayed. The fact checking on live videos has improved. And it now does batch reporting on an entire video. Once again, Claude Code was a major tool in my development, and the AI that is used for orchestration is OpenAI GPT 5.4 nano and mini. In addition, there is an extensive waterfall of sources including the TheNewsAPI, various governmen...
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