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Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

Oct 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

Cloud Blog: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

Sep 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-baseten-achieves-better-cost-performance-for-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Feedly Summary: Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers,…

Docker: Broadcom’s New Bitnami Restrictions? Migrate Easily with Docker

Aug 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/broadcoms-new-bitnami-restrictions-migrate-easily-with-docker/ Source: Docker Title: Broadcom’s New Bitnami Restrictions? Migrate Easily with Docker Feedly Summary: For years, Bitnami has played a vital role in the open source and cloud-native community, making it easier for developers and operators to deploy popular applications with reliable, prebuilt container images and Helm charts. Countless teams have benefited from…

AWS News Blog: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/celebrating-10-years-of-amazon-aurora-innovation/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text…

Cloud Blog: Understanding Calendar mode for Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Reserve ML GPUs and TPUs

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/dynamic-workload-scheduler-calendar-mode-reserves-gpus-and-tpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Understanding Calendar mode for Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Reserve ML GPUs and TPUs Feedly Summary: Organizations need ML compute resources that can accommodate bursty peaks and periodic troughs. That means the consumption models for AI infrastructure need to evolve to be more cost-efficient, provide term flexibility, and support rapid…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available

Jul 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/gemini-25-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available The last remaining member of the Gemini 2.5 trio joins Pro and Flash in General Availability today. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest of the 2.5 family,…

AWS News Blog: Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-the-highest-resilience-apps-with-multi-region-strong-consistency-in-amazon-dynamodb-global-tables/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables Feedly Summary: Amazon DynamoDB now offers multi-Region strong consistency capability for global tables, providing the highest level of application resilience and enabling your applications to be always available. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

Slashdot: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community

Jun 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/221211/metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on Meta’s plans to build a massive 4 million square foot AI data center in Louisiana, highlighting significant implications for local energy infrastructure and potential cost increases…

AWS News Blog: Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances

Jun 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-up-to-45-price-reduction-for-amazon-ec2-nvidia-gpu-accelerated-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances Feedly Summary: AWS announces significant price reductions of up to 45 percent for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, increasing accessibility to these high-demand resources for generative AI workloads amid industry-wide GPU shortages. AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels

May 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/sap_sapphire_costs/ Source: The Register Title: SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels Feedly Summary: Vendor’s AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs News that SAP users face a 30-50 percent premium to get some cloud products – including core ERP – to industry-standard service levels threatens to…

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