Tag: air

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/ Source: The Register Title: Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes Feedly Summary: On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.… AI Summary and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering

Aug 4, 2025

—

by

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/qwen-image/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Feedly Summary: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Not content with releasing six excellent open weights LLMs in July, Qwen are kicking off August with their first ever image generation model. Qwen-Image is a 20 billion parameter MMDiT (Multimodal Diffusion Transformer,…

Cloud Blog: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time

Aug 4, 2025

—

by

Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/mlb-delivers-real-time-data-to-fans/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Major League Baseball (MLB) delivers data in real time to millions of fans, apps, and broadcasters — tracking everything from pitch speeds to player positions. To keep pace, the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

Aug 3, 2025

—

by

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

Slashdot: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation

Aug 2, 2025

—

by

Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2237220/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude-over-terms-of-service-violation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Anthropic revoking OpenAI’s API access due to violations of terms of service, emphasizing the competitive dynamics within AI development. This situation highlights the importance of compliance with…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

—

by

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

Slashdot: UK Competition Authority Rains on Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Parade

—

by

Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/1553241/uk-competition-authority-rains-on-microsoft-and-amazon-cloud-parade?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Competition Authority Rains on Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Parade Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of Britain has identified Microsoft and Amazon as holding significant market power in cloud services, raising concerns about business practices that lead to customer “lock-in.”…

The Register: Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with ‘strategic market status’

—

by

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/cma_aws_microsoft_sms/ Source: The Register Title: Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with ‘strategic market status’ Feedly Summary: Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain’s competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate…

Slashdot: Voice Actors Push Back As AI Threatens Dubbing Industry

—

by