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  • The Register: Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/microsoft_joins_cispe/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Feedly Summary: From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it Exclusive Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European…

  • Hacker News: Some Lessons from the OpenAI FrontierMath Debacle

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8ZgLYwBmB3vLavjKE/some-lessons-from-the-openai-frontiermath-debacle Source: Hacker News Title: Some Lessons from the OpenAI FrontierMath Debacle Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s announcement of the o3 model showcased a remarkable achievement in reasoning and math, scoring 25% on the FrontierMath benchmark. However, subsequent implications regarding transparency and the potential misuse of exclusive access…

  • Slashdot: AI Boom Gives Rise To ‘GPU-as-a-Service’

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    Source URL: https://idle.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/0021215/ai-boom-gives-rise-to-gpu-as-a-service?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Boom Gives Rise To ‘GPU-as-a-Service’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising demand for GPUs driven by advancements in AI and the emergence of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) as a cost-effective solution for businesses unable to invest in their own hardware. It highlights the…

  • Slashdot: CIA’s Chatbot Stands In For World Leaders

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/20/2214205/cias-chatbot-stands-in-for-world-leaders?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CIA’s Chatbot Stands In For World Leaders Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details the CIA’s development of an AI-powered chatbot aimed at improving its analytical capabilities regarding foreign leaders. This initiative highlights the agency’s commitment to leveraging advanced AI technologies, including large language models,…

  • Hacker News: Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat

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    Source URL: https://ssno.cc/posts/reversing-tac-1-4-2025/ Source: Hacker News Title: Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents an in-depth analysis of the user-mode anti-cheat mechanism employed in the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,” referred to as TAC (Treyarch Anti-Cheat). It details the obfuscation…

  • Hacker News: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Source: Hacker News Title: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B Surpasses GPT-4o in certain benchmarks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the introduction of DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, first-generation reasoning models that utilize large-scale reinforcement learning without prior supervised fine-tuning. These models exhibit significant reasoning capabilities but also face challenges like endless…

  • The Register: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/aws_iceberg_support/ Source: The Register Title: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Feedly Summary: Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025)

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-new-aws-mexico-central-region-simultaneous-sign-in-for-multiple-aws-accounts-and-more-january-20-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025) Feedly Summary: As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Feedly Summary: DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning" model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…