Can smiley faces break AI? Researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong University, NTU, and UMass Amherst reveal a new LLM vulnerability: emoticon semantic confusion. ASCII emoticons like 🙂 can trick models into misinterpreting intent, leading to harmful code generation. Their study,
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ChatGPT GPT-5.5 Excels at Searching Gmail Inbox
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ChatGPT is now superhuman at one specific annoying thing – searching Gmail. GPT-5.5 is got a LOT better & quicker. I honestly hate searching on gmail by hand, for a search company their gmail search is surprisingly awful.
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Codex App Ships GPT-5.5 Browser Control Sheets Slides and More
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Codex for everything. Over the last 2 weeks, we shipped a pretty big set of updates: GPT-5.5, browser control, Sheets & Slides, Docs & PDFs, OS-wide dictation, auto-review mode, /pets, and a .tex plugin. The whole app also got better: dynamic UI for the task at hand, ~20%
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Google Gemini Flash and New Omni Model Rumors Circulate
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Rumors so far: – Google Gemini Flash 3.2/3.5 (already being tested)
– New Omni Model, maybe even updated Veo in competition to Seedance
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Open vs Closed AI Models: Beyond Benchmark Gaps
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This is a good explanation of why the gap between open and closed models is larger than it appears in benchmarks. I would add in that current open models are also more fragile than closed: they handle out-of-distribution problems far less well & have lower emergent capabilities.
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Google Omni Model Expected at Google I/O with New Video AI
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Google Omni model incoming. Probably being prepared for google i/o. However i assume they will launch a new video model with it instead of Veo 3.1 since Seedance jumped to the top a few months ago
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Gemini App Lacks Model Retry Feature Without Losing Attachments
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Why doesn't the Gemini app let us retry prompts with a different model without losing our attachments? Doing the whole copy-paste and re-upload routine every time is a MASSIVE headache.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Unifies Vision Audio Language Multimodal AI
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for up to 9x More Efficient Multimodal MoE Reasoning Model! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #NLProc #LLM #IoT #IIoT #PyTorch #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScript
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Mistral Releases 128B Medium 3.5 Model with Reasoning Toggle
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Mistral has Released 3.5, a 128B-Parameter Flagship Folding Chat, Medium 3.5, Reasoning, and Code into a Model with a Per-Request Reasoning Effort Toggle! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #NLProc #LLM #IoT #IIoT #PyTorch #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java
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World Models: AI’s Latest Sensation Explained by Nature
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‘World models’ are #AI’s latest sensation: what are they and what can they do?
by Davide Castelvecchi @Nature Learn more: https://
bit.ly/4dbzMpX #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML
