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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide Feedly Summary: Apollo Global Management’s “Chief Economist" Dr. Torsten Sløk released this interesting chart which appears to show a slowdown in AI adoption rates among large (>250 empoloyees) companies: Here’s the full description that accompanied…

  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? Feedly Summary: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? More from Mike Caulfield (see also the SIFT method). He starts with a fantastic example of Google’s AI mode…

  • The Register: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/clickfix_castlerat_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python Feedly Summary: Pro tip, don’t install PowerShell commands without approval A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/troubleshoot-apache-spark-on-dataproc-with-gemini-cloud-assist-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Feedly Summary: Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging…

  • Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • Cloud Blog: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/agent-factory-recap-keith-ballinger-on-ai-the-future-of-development-and-vibe-coding/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future…