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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…

  • 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: As Russia and China ‘Seed Chatbots With Lies’, Any Bad Actor Could Game AI the Same Way

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/1531238/as-russia-and-china-seed-chatbots-with-lies-any-bad-actor-could-game-ai-the-same-way?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: As Russia and China ‘Seed Chatbots With Lies’, Any Bad Actor Could Game AI the Same Way Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how Russia is automating the spread of misinformation to manipulate AI chatbots, potentially serving as a model for other malicious actors.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Ng

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/andrew-ng/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Ng Feedly Summary: To me, a successful eval meets the following criteria. Say, we currently have system A, and we might tweak it to get a system B: If A works significantly better than B according to a skilled human judge, the eval should give…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Feedly Summary: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Gemini’s latest model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, available in (paid) preview as gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while…

  • 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…

  • Slashdot: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1539231/meta-blocks-apple-intelligence-in-ios-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s recent decision to disable Apple Intelligence features across its iOS applications highlights ongoing tensions between tech giants over privacy and service integration. This move is seen as a strategic shift towards promoting Meta’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/ted-sanders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI Feedly Summary: Our hypothesis is that o4-mini is a much better model, but we’ll wait to hear feedback from developers. Evals only tell part of the story, and we wouldn’t want to prematurely deprecate a model that developers continue to find value in.…

  • 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.…