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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Slashdot: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/1925212/is-the-altruistic-openai-gone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines concerns regarding OpenAI’s shifting priorities under CEO Sam Altman, highlighting internal struggles over the management of artificial intelligence safety and governance. It raises critical questions about the implications of AI development’s commercialization and…

  • The Register: Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/privacy_preserving_location_sharing/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away Feedly Summary: ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • Cloud Blog: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-enhancements-for-the-developer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger Feedly Summary: Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous…

  • OpenAI : Addendum to o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/o3-o4-mini-codex-system-card-addendum Source: OpenAI Title: Addendum to o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex Feedly Summary: Codex is a cloud-based coding agent. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI o3 optimized for software engineering. codex-1 was trained using reinforcement learning on real-world coding tasks in a variety of environments to generate code that…

  • OpenAI : Introducing Codex

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex Source: OpenAI Title: Introducing Codex Feedly Summary: Introducing Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered by codex-1. With Codex, developers can simultaneously deploy multiple agents to independently handle coding tasks such as writing features, answering questions about your codebase, fixing bugs, and proposing pull…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-ci-cd-pipelines-with-the-new-aws-codebuild-docker-server-capability/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability Feedly Summary: AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demonstrated by a 98% reduction in build…

  • The Register: Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/tencent_q1_25/ Source: The Register Title: Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training Feedly Summary: Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models…