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  • Cloud Blog: Setting new expectations: Benchmarking high-performance trading with C3 machines

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/benchmarking-c3-machine-types-for-trading-firms-with-28stone/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Setting new expectations: Benchmarking high-performance trading with C3 machines Feedly Summary: Trading in capital markets demands peak compute performance, with every microsecond impacting critical decisions and market outcomes. At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing global markets with the cutting-edge infrastructure they need to create and participate in…

  • Cloud Blog: Gemini and OSS text embeddings are now in BigQuery ML

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/use-gemini-and-open-source-text-embedding-models-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Gemini and OSS text embeddings are now in BigQuery ML Feedly Summary: High-quality text embeddings are the engine for modern AI applications like semantic search, classification, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But when it comes to picking a model to generate these embeddings, we know one size doesn’t fit…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge ML performance on xPUs with the new XProf profiler and Cloud Diagnostics XProf library

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/supercharge-ml-performance-on-xpus-with-the-new-xprof-profiler-and-cloud-diagnostics-xprof-library/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge ML performance on xPUs with the new XProf profiler and Cloud Diagnostics XProf library Feedly Summary: Are you spending more time debugging ML model performance than you are building? You’re not alone. In today’s fast-paced AI landscape, optimizing models is a complex challenge, from navigating new model…

  • Slashdot: UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China’s DeepSeek

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/13/1734225/uae-lab-releases-open-source-model-to-rival-chinas-deepseek Source: Slashdot Title: UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China’s DeepSeek Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The United Arab Emirates is making significant advancements in the AI arena, exemplified by the release of the K2 Think model from the Institute of Foundation Models. This open-source model, which reportedly…

  • OpenAI : Working with US CAISI and UK AISI to build more secure AI systems

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/us-caisi-uk-aisi-ai-safety Source: OpenAI Title: Working with US CAISI and UK AISI to build more secure AI systems Feedly Summary: OpenAI shares progress on the partnership with the US CAISI and UK AISI to strengthen AI safety and security. The collaboration is setting new standards for responsible frontier AI deployment through joint red-teaming, biosecurity…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-m4-and-m4-pro-mac-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances Feedly Summary: AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.…

  • Cloud Blog: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/prove-your-expertise-with-our-new-secops-engineer-certification/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification Feedly Summary: Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…