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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 (Edith Olmsted), headline syndicated on Yahoo News ·
The New Republic's headline says Trump reprogrammed the America.gov chatbot to stop fact-checking his lies.
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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, Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign ·
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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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.
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.
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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
The future of semiconductor engineering requires dramatic acceleration of the chip design process without compromising PPA or first-time-right silicon.
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