AI News

August 25, 2025

• Checklists may work better than reward models for aligning LLMs: Apple Machine Learning Research
• Microsoft did a study of Bing Copilot usage and found that AI chatbot usage breaks down into 2 broad categories, "AI Augmentation" and "AI automation". The most common examples of AI augmentation are knowledge gathering and writing/communication help: Microsoft's Arxiv PDF It also notes in the discussion, "Second, decomposing an occupation into its work activities, while standard practice in the literature, does not provide a complete representation of every occupation: the connecting glue between tasks also contributes to the value of work."
• Last, the Perplexity Comet AI browser suffers a prompt injection attack from reading webpages that contain prompt injections. Simon Willison and Hacker News have discussion.