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Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far
Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
blog post on the challenges of securing systems that use MCP inc prompt inhection #AI #AIPromptInjection #AISecurity
I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, MCP security and the lethal trifecta. Here are the annotated slides from my presentation, including notes on my weird hobby of trying to coin or amplify new terms of art simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...
My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t …
simonwillison.net
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
An overview of GTP5 " performance in three of ChatGPT’s most common uses: writing, coding, and health. All of the GPT-5 models additionally feature safe-completions, our latest approach to safety training to prevent disallowed content." simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/g... #ai #GPT5 #OpenAI
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite …
simonwillison.net
August 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Funny how we force engineers to write ADRs for every trade‑off, yet billion‑dollar strategic bets live in hallway whispers and fluffy slide decks.

What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
How to think about today’s AI tooling for developers, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them - great blog post by Birgitta Böckeler @thoughtworks.com newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/two-years-...

#aitools #ai #softwareengineering
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Explore the latest in Agentic AI architectures and how they’re revolutionizing LLM-based apps!

In this #InfoQ #VirtualPanel, industry experts dive into how #AIagents are reshaping healthcare, education & finance - and why 2025 is being called the "Year of AI Agents."

🎥 Watch now: bit.ly/4lRXysz
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Cloudflare announced more controls to enable their customers to prevent AI Bots from automatically crawling content on their website They are introducing a pay-per-crawl micropayment system where publishers can charge AI firms a crawl fee blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-yo... #aibots #cloudflare
Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.
blog.cloudflare.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Good doc from Microsoft which proposes a set of design principles for AI agentic systems. #AI #AIAgents #AgentUX microsoft.design/articles/ux-...
UX design for agents  - Microsoft Design
Microsoft principles and guidelines for building agentic experiences
microsoft.design
July 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM