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  • Slashdot: How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1451202/how-miami-schools-are-leading-100000-students-into-the-ai-future?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Miami-Dade County Public Schools is implementing Google’s Gemini chatbots for over 105,000 high school students, representing a significant shift in policy from blocking AI tools. This move aligns with a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Slashdot: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/1925212/is-the-altruistic-openai-gone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines concerns regarding OpenAI’s shifting priorities under CEO Sam Altman, highlighting internal struggles over the management of artificial intelligence safety and governance. It raises critical questions about the implications of AI development’s commercialization and…

  • Google Online Security Blog: What’s New in Android Security and Privacy in 2025

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/whats-new-in-android-security-privacy-2025.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: What’s New in Android Security and Privacy in 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights significant advancements in Android’s security features aimed at combating various forms of fraud and enhancing user privacy. Key updates include enhancements to in-call protections against scams,…

  • The Register: Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/privacy_preserving_location_sharing/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away Feedly Summary: ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable…

  • Slashdot: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2138230/walmart-prepares-for-a-future-where-ai-shops-for-consumers Source: Slashdot Title: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Walmart’s advancements in developing AI agents for autonomous shopping, aiming to lead in agentic commerce alongside competitors like Visa and PayPal. It highlights a significant shift in consumer…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2052243/openai-launches-codex-an-ai-coding-agent-in-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s introduction of Codex marks a significant advancement in AI-driven software engineering capabilities, allowing for autonomous code writing, bug fixing, and testing within a cloud-based environment. This tool, powered by the codex-1…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-strands-agents-an-open-source-ai-agents-sdk/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK Feedly Summary: Today I am happy to announce we are releasing Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…