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  • The Register: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/microsoft_analog_optical_computer/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Feedly Summary: Good for solving finance and clinical problems… and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology’s capabilities.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • 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…

  • The Register: Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/boffins_build_automated_android_bug_hunting/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system Feedly Summary: AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to…

  • AWS News Blog: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-new-zealand-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region Feedly Summary: AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing gpt-realtime

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/1/introducing-gpt-realtime/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing gpt-realtime Feedly Summary: Introducing gpt-realtime Released a few days ago (August 28th), gpt-realtime is OpenAI’s new “most advanced speech-to-speech model". It looks like this is a replacement for the older gpt-4o-realtime-preview model that was released last October. This is a slightly confusing release. The previous realtime…

  • Slashdot: Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/231249/alibaba-creates-ai-chip-to-help-china-fill-nvidia-void Source: Slashdot Title: Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Alibaba’s development of a versatile inference chip in response to U.S. restrictions on Nvidia’s sales to China. This move is significant for AI infrastructure security and represents a…

  • The Register: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/china_alibaba_ai_accelerator/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Feedly Summary: Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/28/2058255/microsoft-reveals-two-in-house-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched two AI models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, enhancing its AI capabilities in speech generation and foundational model training. These developments present significant implications for professionals involved in AI, especially in relation to generative…

  • Embrace The Red: Windsurf MCP Integration: Missing Security Controls Put Users at Risk

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-dangers-lack-of-security-controls-for-mcp-server-tool-invocation/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Windsurf MCP Integration: Missing Security Controls Put Users at Risk Feedly Summary: Part of my default test cases for coding agents is to check how MCP integration looks like, especially if the agent can be configured to allow setting fine-grained controls for tools. Sometimes there are basic…