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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • The Register: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/mcp_guide/ Source: The Register Title: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI Feedly Summary: Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it’s not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up…

  • CSA: AI Red Teaming: Insights from the Front Lines

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    Source URL: https://www.troj.ai/blog/ai-red-teaming-insights-from-the-front-lines-of-genai-security Source: CSA Title: AI Red Teaming: Insights from the Front Lines Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text emphasizes the critical role of AI red teaming in securing AI systems and mitigating unique risks associated with generative AI. It highlights that traditional security measures are inadequate due to the…

  • Slashdot: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS?

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/0026255/can-you-run-the-llama-2-llm-on-dos Source: Slashdot Title: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text revolves around an innovative project by an embedded security researcher who successfully ported Llama 2, a large language model (LLM), to run on vintage DOS machines. This challenges the conventional…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0332214/open-source-advocate-argues-deepseek-is-a-movement-its-linux-all-over-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as an influential open-source AI model and its impact on global collaboration in AI development, particularly highlighting the role of platforms…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemma 3 QAT Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/gemma-3-qat-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemma 3 QAT Models Feedly Summary: Gemma 3 QAT Models Interesting release from Google, as a follow-up to Gemma 3 from last month: To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1941258/chatgpt-models-are-surprisingly-good-at-geoguessing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a concerning trend related to the use of OpenAI’s new models, o3 and o4-mini, for deducing locations from images, raising potential privacy issues. The models’ advanced image analysis capabilities combined with…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-27-security-announcements-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Betker

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/james-betker/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Betker Feedly Summary: I work for OpenAI. […] o4-mini is actually a considerably better vision model than o3, despite the benchmarks. Similar to how o3-mini-high was a much better coding model than o1. I would recommend using o4-mini-high over o3 for any task involving vision.…