Benj Edwards

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

99% detection is a failing grade Prompt injections are the Achilles' heel of AI assistants. Google offers a potential fix. In the AI world, a vulnerability called "prompt injection" has haunted developers since chatbots went mainstream in 2022. Despite numerous attempts to solve this fundamental vulnerability—the digital equivalent of whispering secret instructions to override a system's intended behavior—no one has found a reliable solution. Until now, perhaps.

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

OpenAI's brand new "GPT-4.1" has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price. On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long tradition of very confusing AI model names. Three confusing new names, in fact: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. According to OpenAI, these models outperform GPT-4o in several key areas.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Benj Edwards

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1 week ago | flipboard.com | Benj Edwards

6 hours ago ChatGPT’s latest multimodal AI model comes as OpenAI kicks GPT-5 launch down the road. OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1, a successor to the GPT-4o multimodal AI model launched by the company last year. During a livestream on Monday, OpenAI said GPT-4.1 has an even larger context window and is better …

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Benj Edwards

New announcement seems aimed at appeasing Trump, signals company shift. Benj Edwards – Apr 14, 2025 11:55 am | Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The politically timed move comes amid rising US-China tensions and the Trump administration's push for domestic manufacturing.