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  • Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/09/reading-the-gentle-singularity-through-a-sustainability-lens.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens Feedly Summary: Sam Altman says AI will cost as little as electricity—but what’s the real environmental impact of billions of queries a day? In this post I dig into the numbers from the blog post “The Gentle Singularity" and compare…

  • The Register: Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder’s biz for nearly $20B

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/microsoft_inks_near_20b_deal/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder’s biz for nearly $20B Feedly Summary: Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey As the AI frenzy shows no signs of letting up, Microsoft has signed an agreement that could be worth up to $19.4…

  • Slashdot: Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/0030209/gemini-app-finally-expands-to-audio-files?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Gemini App Finally Expands To Audio Files Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent Gemini updates by Google introduce significant enhancements relevant to the fields of AI and cloud computing. These updates enhance user experience by enabling audio uploads, expanding language options for AI interactions, and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic status: Model output quality

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/anthropic-model-output-quality/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic status: Model output quality Feedly Summary: Anthropic status: Model output quality Anthropic previously reported model serving bugs that affected Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 for 56.5 hours. They’ve now fixed additional bugs affecting “a small percentage" of Sonnet 4 requests for almost a month, plus a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/webgpu-local-folder/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Feedly Summary: Load Llama-3.2 WebGPU in your browser from a local folder Inspired by a comment on Hacker News I decided to see if it was possible to modify the transformers.js-examples/tree/main/llama-3.2-webgpu Llama 3.2 chat demo (online here,…

  • The Register: Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/perplexity_us_govt_ai_discount/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too Feedly Summary: $0.25-per-agency deal not finalized, and no FedRAMP approval either – so don’t get excited Perplexity has entered the race to inject AI into the federal government with a new public sector version of its…

  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…