TL;DR Hey builders, today brings us more news in AI. Apple might finally give up on building Siri alone and instead lean on Google’s Gemini AI, while Brave discovered a sneaky security hack in Perplexity’s Comet browser that could steal your data. Plus, NASA’s teaming with Google to put an AI doctor in space—cue the EMH.
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Top Stories
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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
Brave researchers uncovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability in Perplexity's Comet AI browser that allows attackers to embed hidden commands to steal user data and access accounts.
Source: Brave | Read more →
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How Google and NASA are testing AI for medical care in space
Google and NASA developed an AI medical assistant named CMO-DA to help astronauts diagnose and treat health issues autonomously during space missions.
Source: Google Cloud | Read more →
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Introducing Comet Plus
Perplexity launched Comet Plus, a subscription offering that shares revenue fairly with publishers based on AI citations and user engagement, aiming to support journalism in the AI era.
Source: Perplexity | Read more →
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Why Stacking Sliding Windows Can't See Very Far
Despite large theoretical token windows, sliding window attention models effectively use only around 1,500 tokens due to exponential decay and information dilution in residual connections.
Source: Guangxuan Xiao | Read more →
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Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI, Alleging They Are Monopolists
Musk is claiming that Apple’s raltionship with OpenAI is giving it an unfair advantange.
Source: The Wall Street Journal | Read more →
Industry Voices
Movers and shakers to watch in AI
Artem Chaikin
Researcher at Brave Software
Expert in AI security vulnerabilities and browser safety research.
Guangxuan Xiao
Machine Learning Researcher
Provides deep technical insights into transformer models and attention mechanisms.
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