Tag Archives: LLMs

New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini’s long-term memory

[embedded content] Google Gemini: Hacking Memories with Prompt Injection and Delayed Tool Invocation. Based on lessons learned previously, developers had already trained Gemini to resist indirect prompts instructing it to make changes to an account’s long-term memories without explicit directions from the user. By introducing a condition to the instruction that it be performed only… Read More »

Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei in 2021, will continue using Google’s cloud services along with Amazon’s infrastructure. The UK Competition and Markets Authority reviewed Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic earlier this year and ultimately determined it did not have jurisdiction to investigate further, clearing the way for the partnership to continue.… Read More »

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

With the character block sitting unused, a later Unicode version planned to reuse the abandoned characters to represent countries. For instance, “us” or “jp” might represent the United States and Japan. These tags could then be appended to a generic 🏴flag emoji to automatically convert it to the official US🇺🇲 or Japanese🇯🇵 flags. That plan… Read More »

Anthropic introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, matching GPT-4o on benchmarks

Anthropic / Benj Edwards reader comments 11 On Thursday, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its latest AI language model and the first in a new series of “3.5” models that build upon Claude 3, launched in March. Claude 3.5 can compose text, analyze data, and write code. It features a 200,000 token context window and… Read More »

AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

reader comments 57 On Thursday, renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, tweeted a lighthearted proposal that large language models (LLMs) like the one that runs ChatGPT could one day be modified to operate in or be transmitted to space, potentially to communicate with extraterrestrial life. He said the idea was “just… Read More »

Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI

Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 89 On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip—the company’s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors—which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running ChatGPT) and energy consumption by up to… Read More »