TechCrunch

AWS doubles down on custom LLMs with features meant to simplify model creation

Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models. AWS ...
Harvard Business Review

Research: LLMs Respond Differently in English and Chinese

Generative AI has become deeply integrated into daily life. People increasingly rely on it to think, create, and make decisions. Yet, as organizations scale their use of generative AI tools, a quiet ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools

Unrestricted large language models (LLMs) like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT are improving their capabilities to generate malicious code, delivering functional scripts for ransomware encryptors and lateral ...
Dark Reading

'Dark LLMs' Aid Petty Criminals, But Underwhelm Technically

Artificial-intelligence-generated malware hasn't yet lived up to everyone's fears, but it is helping script kiddies and foreign language speakers smooth out the kinks in their cyberattacks. On Nov. 30 ...
The Economist

When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil

Some helpful parenting tips: it is very easy to accidentally teach your children lessons you did not intend to pass on. If you accept bad behaviour some of the time, you end up with bad behaviour all ...
9to5Mac

New Apple study shows LLMs can tell what you’re doing from audio and motion data

Apple researchers have published a study that looks into how LLMs can analyze audio and motion data to get a better overview of the user’s activities. Here are the details. They’re good at it, but not ...
Searchenginejournal.com

LLMs.txt Shows No Clear Effect On AI Citations, Based On 300k Domains

An analysis of 300k domains found LLMs.txt file adoption is low and has no measurable link to AI citation frequency. Only about 1 in 10 domains in the dataset had llms.txt. Citation rates didn't ...
CSOonline

Google researchers detect first operational use of LLMs in active malware campaigns

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reports that new malware strains use LLMs mid-execution to generate, rewrite, and obfuscate malicious code in real time. Threat actors are now actively deploying ...
TechCrunch

AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams

The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they ...
Ars Technica

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...