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May 26, 2025, 7:20 AM

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not regurgitating copyrighted content  —  Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS  —  Jony Ive's deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Some Amazon engineers say managers have increasingly pushed them to use AI over the past year, raising output goals and becoming less forgiving about deadlines  —  Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think.
Sean Heelan / Sean Heelan's Blog:
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API  —  In this post I'll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI's o3 model.
Financial Times:
Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US  —  Washington and Tokyo discuss possibility of fund that would make large-scale US tech and infrastructure investments
Leo Marchandon / Reuters:
Capgemini says it is partnering with SAP to deploy custom Mistral AI tools for industries with stringent data requirements, such as aerospace and defense  —  French IT firm Capgemini (CAPP.PA) said on Monday it was partnering with Germany's SAP (SAPG.DE) to deploy custom Mistral AI solutions for sensitive industries.
Rishav Chatterjee / Reuters:
Australia's WiseTech agrees to buy US cloud logistics firm E2open for $2.1B including debt, offering $3.30 per share, a 24.5% premium on E2open's May 23 close  —  Australian software company WiseTech Global (WTC.AX) on Monday announced its biggest deal to date, buying out U.S. cloud computing firm E2open …
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine  —  Grok has proved popular with X users.  But a string of bizarre blunders has threatened to turn it into a punchline.
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
Study: users in China's Henan province were on average denied access to 5x more websites than a typical Chinese internet user between Nov. 2023 and March 2025  —  Tens of millions of internet users in China's Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual

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