Podcast ... Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents ... Part 1, SignalGate

Last update: Wednesday 4/9/25 

Welcome to the 1st of a series of 4 podcasts about the Signal app. The series is called, "Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents". This first podcast answers some questions raised by our readers, friends, and associates about the issues addressed in the lengthy report that we posted last week, "SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat". This fiasco demonstrated how badly things can go when high level officials with insufficient training and insufficient technical support use a world class open source messaging app to discuss highly confidential subjects. ... The first section of this podcast is based on ChatGPT's succinct responses to a series of questions of concern to potential new users of Signal. What’s it all about? The second section is based on the chatbot's TL;DR summary of our lengthy report about the fiasco's double-hack. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the chatbot's responses and summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

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TL;DR 7Apr25 ... (1) Microsoft updates Copilot with the most popular AI features, (2) OpenAI now worth $300 billion, (3) Musk sells X to his A.I. start-Up xAI, and (4) Users now generate images directly from ChatGPT and Sora

Last update: Monday 4/7/25

Welcome to our 7Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Microsoft updates Copilot with the most popular AI features, (2) OpenAI now worth $300 billion, (3) Musk sells his X to his AI start-Up x.AI, and (4) Users now generate images directly from ChatGPT and Sora.

 

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SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat

Last update: Sunday 4/6/25

Here's the headline: House Democratic leader "Jeffries calls for firing Hegseth over war plans group chat", Nicholas Wu, Politico, 3/25/25 ... This blog note offers an alternative interpretation of what happened, an alternative that yields two recommendations that might minimize the chances of this happening again by putting GenAI agents on center stage.

TLDR-24Mar25 ... (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays

Last update: Monday 3/24/25

Welcome to our 24Mar15 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Introduction: Search engines and chain-of-reason models, (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays. 

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Podcast 19Mar25 (plus transcript) ... Our podcast Introduction will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within he Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to NSF/OSTP's request for input on AI Action Plan

Last update: Wednesday 3/19/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 17Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page ➡ Our podcast introduction discusses why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summaries and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 24 min 

 

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