Tag: AI development

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/deepseek-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek 3.1 Feedly Summary: DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it’s a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig points out that their benchmarks…

The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

Aug 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

The Register: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/anthropic_claude_nuclear_chat_detection/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Feedly Summary: Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear…

Cloud Blog: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-technical-blueprints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints Feedly Summary: A little over a year ago, we published a list of generative AI use cases that has since grown to include more than 600 examples of how organizations are putting AI to work. Yet for many developers and…

Cloud Blog: How startups can help build — and benefit from — the AI revolution

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/industry-leaders-on-whats-next-for-startups-and-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How startups can help build — and benefit from — the AI revolution Feedly Summary: Startups are at the forefront of generative AI development, pushing current capabilities and unlocking new potential. Building on our Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups 2025 report, several of the AI industry leaders…

Cloud Blog: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math Feedly Summary: AI is unlocking scientific breakthroughs, improving healthcare and education, and could add trillions to the global economy. Understanding AI’s footprint is crucial, yet thorough data on the energy and environmental impact of AI inference —…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Mustafa Suleyman

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/21/mustafa-suleyman/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Mustafa Suleyman Feedly Summary: Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship. This development will be a dangerous…

The Register: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/baidu_q2_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere Feedly Summary: Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away Chinese web giant Baidu is already breaking even with robotaxi operations in China and is confident they…

Slashdot: Meta Freezes AI Hiring

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