Tag: business

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…

  • Scott Logic: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt

    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/23/bridging-the-AI-valley-of-doubt.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt Feedly Summary: Despite the UK being the world’s third-largest AI industry, only 1 in 6 UK firms are actively using AI due to financial, skills, and risk concerns, but businesses can bridge this “valley of doubt" by adopting measured "AI in the…

  • The Register: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/uk_execs_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds Feedly Summary: IT leaders in region eyeing Amercian hyperscalers escape hatch Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-distributed-cloud-gdc-gdc-air-gapped-appliance-achieve-dod-impact-level-6-il6-authorization/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization Feedly Summary: Today, we’re thrilled to announce another significant milestone for our Google Public Sector business: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieved Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6)…

  • Scott Logic: Advice on transitioning from a legacy API

    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/28/advice-on-transitioning-from-a-legacy-api.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Advice on transitioning from a legacy API Feedly Summary: We have been helping a client migrate their trading platform to a new version of a third-party API. The migration is more interesting than usual for a number of reasons, so I thought it might be useful to share…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/luis-von-ahn-on-linkedin/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Feedly Summary: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Last month’s Duolingo memo about becoming an “AI-first" company has seen significant backlash, particularly on TikTok. I’ve had trouble figuring out how much of this is a real threat to their business as opposed to…

  • The Register: Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/microsoft_stitches_transactional_databases_to/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system Feedly Summary: SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Microsoft is throwing more transactional database systems into its Fabric analytics and data lake environment in expectation the proximity…