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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • The Register: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/how_to_trick_chatgpt_agents/ Source: The Register Title: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt Feedly Summary: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.… AI Summary…

  • Cloud Blog: Back to AI school: New Google Cloud training to future-proof your AI skills

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/new-google-cloud-training-to-future-proof-ai-skills/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Back to AI school: New Google Cloud training to future-proof your AI skills Feedly Summary: Getting ahead — and staying ahead — of the demand for AI skills isn’t just key for those looking for a new role. Research shows proving your skills through credentials drives promotion, salary…

  • AWS News Blog: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/qwen-models-are-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharging Employee Productivity with AI, Securely, with Gemini in Chrome Enterprise

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/supercharging-employee-productivity-with-ai-securely-with-gemini-in-chrome-enterprise/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharging Employee Productivity with AI, Securely, with Gemini in Chrome Enterprise Feedly Summary: AI is transforming how people work and how businesses operate. But with these powerful tools comes a critical question: how do we empower our teams with AI, while ensuring corporate data remains protected?A key answer…

  • Cloud Blog: Achieve agentic productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/get-started-with-vertex-ai-agent-builder/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Achieve agentic productivity with Vertex AI Agent Builder Feedly Summary: Enterprises need to move from experimenting with AI agents to achieving real productivity, but many struggle to scale their agents from prototypes to secure, production-ready systems.  The question is no longer if agents deliver value, but how to…

  • Cloud Blog: How Mr. Cooper assembled a team of AI agents to handle complex mortgage questions

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/assembling-a-team-of-ai-agents-to-handle-complex-mortgage-questions-at-mr-cooper/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Mr. Cooper assembled a team of AI agents to handle complex mortgage questions Feedly Summary: In today’s world where instant responses and seamless experiences are the norm, industries like mortgage servicing face tough challenges. When navigating a maze of regulations, piles of financial documents, and the high…