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The headline says Trump reprogrammed his chatbot to stop fact-checking him. The answers did change overnight. Then, within hours, some of the fact-checks came back.

The New Republic's headline says Trump reprogrammed the America.gov chatbot to stop fact-checking his lies.

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The Trump administration reprogrammed its new America.gov AI chatbot to stop fact-checking the president's false claims.

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yahoo.com ↗
Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
cnn.com ↗
The chatbot flatly and correctly noted that many of these Trump claims are not true
cnn.com ↗
America.gov will continue to be updated to provide more features, resources, and the most accurate information from the federal government.
mediaite.com ↗
The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.
mediaite.com ↗
which uses AI systems including Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok
mediaite.com ↗
Dale and others noted that the answers provided by the chatbot appear to be changing in real-time
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Now the chatbot is providing even more detailed answers than it did yesterday.
rte.ie ↗
It was unclear whether the Trump administration had tweaked the settings to prevent the chatbot from debunking the president.
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The chatbot, however, continued to debunk some of Mr Trump's other contentious claims.
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    Next: OpenAI's distillation count is attempts

    OpenAI says 16,000 requests tried to copy its models' reasoning and names Moonshot AI. Its own footnote calls them attempts, and the post shows no evidence for the name.

    OpenAI says it disrupted a distillation campaign, with 16,000 extraction requests from over 4,000 users on July 24 and 25, and attributes a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI.

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    OpenAI says it disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign, with 16,000 extraction requests from over 4,000 users on July 24 and 25, and attributes a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI.

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    web.archive.org ↗
    we observed high-volume spikes on July 24 and 25 consisting of 16,000 requests
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    we attribute a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi.
    web.archive.org ↗
    These figures describe attempted, not necessarily successful, extractions.
    web.archive.org ↗
    It is unclear whether all operators we observed during the relevant time period originated from a single actor.
    web.archive.org ↗
    This manipulation is not a vulnerability unique to OpenAI’s models
    cyberscoop.com ↗
    OpenAI’s blog post does not cite any technical evidence or reasoning for its attribution.
    cyberscoop.com ↗
    OpenAI told CyberScoop that it was not sharing any additional information “for security reasons.”
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    Last month, rival Anthropic accused Moonshot AI of stealthily relaying customer requests to Claude as opposed to processing them using Kimi
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    these encrypted blocks are fully compatible and interchangeable across different sessions, users, and models within a provider’s ecosystem.
    theregister.com ↗
    OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI
    theregister.com ↗
    The Register reached out to Moonshot AI for comment and did not receive an immediate response.
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    The queries began on July 1, and while they started slowly, “we observed high-volume spikes on July 24 and 25 consisting of 16,000 requests using a relevant extraction pattern from over 4,000 users,” OpenAI said.
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      Next: GPT-Synopsys: revolution with no numbers

      Synopsys and OpenAI say GPT-Synopsys will "revolutionize the design of semiconductors". The release carries no speedup figure, and the model is still to be developed.

      Synopsys and OpenAI announced GPT-Synopsys, a model to "revolutionize the design of semiconductors"; Greg Brockman spoke of potentially cutting weeks or months from design.

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      Synopsys and OpenAI say GPT-Synopsys, a chip design model they will build together, will "revolutionize the design of semiconductors", with OpenAI pitching weeks or months cut from design.

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      brings together OpenAI's advanced AI capabilities with Synopsys' industry-leading EDA tools and agentic AI capabilities to revolutionize the design of semiconductors
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      The future of semiconductor engineering requires dramatic acceleration of the chip design process without compromising PPA or first-time-right silicon.
      news.synopsys.com ↗
      The companies signed an expansive, multi-year agreement to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys
      news.synopsys.com ↗
      Early technology engagements are underway with leading semiconductor customers.
      news.synopsys.com ↗
      statements regarding the development, capabilities, timing, availability, and anticipated benefits of GPT-Synopsys
      news.synopsys.com ↗
      GPT-Synopsys will run on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure
      news.synopsys.com ↗
      Customer data is not used to train the model, is encrypted at rest and in transit
      convergence-now.com ↗
      potentially cutting weeks or months from the chip-design process
      convergence-now.com ↗
      GPT-Synopsys will not independently decide whether a chip works.
      convergence-now.com ↗
      Synopsys tools will continue to check its output using traditional computing methods.
      convergence-now.com ↗
      Synopsys shares rose as much as 7% following the announcements.
      the-decoder.com ↗
      Engineers will delegate design objectives and review and approve the output.
      news.ycombinator.com ↗
      I am not sure if Nvidia want to send their chip designs to OpenAI.
      news.ycombinator.com ↗
      chip designers are and have always been hyper paranoid about protecting their designs
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