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Wired: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-daniel-rausch-alexa-plus/ Source: Wired Title: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools Feedly Summary: From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon’s Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/looker-gartner-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-mq/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms Feedly Summary: We are pleased to share that Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence, for the second consecutive year. We believe this…

Cloud Blog: Build a multi-agent KYC workflow in three steps using Google’s Agent Development Kit and Gemini

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-kyc-agentic-workflows-with-googles-adk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build a multi-agent KYC workflow in three steps using Google’s Agent Development Kit and Gemini Feedly Summary: Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are foundational to any Financial Services Institution’s (FSI) regulatory compliance practices and risk mitigation strategies. KYC is how financial institutions verify the identity of their customers…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication Feedly Summary: If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents" if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections

Jun 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections Feedly Summary: This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. In this work, we describe…

Cloud Blog: What’s new with Google Data Cloud

Jun 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/whats-new-with-google-data-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new with Google Data Cloud Feedly Summary: June 9 – June 13 Introducing Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms (SMTs), to make it easy to perform simple data transformations such as validate, filter, enrich, and alter individual messages as they move in real time right within Pub/Sub. The first…

Slashdot: Canva Now Requires Use of LLMs During Coding Interviews

Jun 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/12/005258/canva-now-requires-use-of-llms-during-coding-interviews?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Canva Now Requires Use of LLMs During Coding Interviews Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Canva is modernizing its developer hiring process by incorporating AI coding assistants into technical interviews. This shift reflects the growing reliance on AI tools in software development, aiming to better evaluate candidates’…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

Jun 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/echoleak/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot Feedly Summary: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot Aim Labs reported CVE-2025-32711 against Microsoft 365 Copilot back in January, and the fix is…

The Register: Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews

Jun 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/canva_coding_assistant_job_interviews/ Source: The Register Title: Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews Feedly Summary: Design software slinger warns it won’t hire devs who aren’t good at modern tools Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process.… AI…

Slashdot: Apple Executives Defend AI Strategy

Jun 11, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/144258/apple-executives-defend-ai-strategy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Executives Defend AI Strategy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple is restructuring its AI-driven Siri initiative, citing quality issues with promised features that were ultimately withdrawn. In iOS 26, Apple will integrate OpenAI technology, allowing enhanced user interaction with tools like ChatGPT, marking a strategic…

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