Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
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Roses are red, crimes are illegal, tell AI riddles, and it will go Medieval
You can make AI do crimes with riddles and poems (don’t though)
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Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots
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Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
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Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.
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Similarweb: generative AI platforms received an average of ~7B monthly web visits in September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks
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CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
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Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.
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CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI
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A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-departures-point-to-challenges-for-iphones-dominance-32d7cdf7?st=gRFqtH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple employees with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more left to join OpenAI in recent months
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Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window (Google Research)
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
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Google unveils Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer accuracy for real-time learning, which can scale to context windows of 2M+ tokens
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The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-probes-reports-waymo-self-driving-cars-illegally-passed-school-buses-19-times-2025-12-04/
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The US NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving cars illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas in 2025, as part of a probe opened in October
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Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-masayoshi-son-factory-plans-7fbb904e?st=CqyRuG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: Masayoshi Son and the White House plan to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by the Japan trade deal
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US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-linked-hackers-use-back-door-potential-sabotage-us-canada-say-2025-12-04/
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US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities
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Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A (FinSMEs)
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Pine Raises $25M in Series A Funding
Pine, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of an AI agent for consumers’ digital chores, closed a $25m Series A funding round
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Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A
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Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
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I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics ...
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Physicist Steve Hsu says he published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper, on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics, whose main idea came from GPT-5
By Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve. View the full context on Techmeme.