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  • Cloud Blog: An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/kakaos-journey-with-jax-and-cloud-tpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs Feedly Summary: When your messaging platform serves 49 million people – 93% of South Korea’s population – every technical decision carries enormous weight. The engineering team at Kakao faced exactly this challenge when their existing…

  • Wired: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-ai-powered-pdf-end-of-an-era/ Source: Wired Title: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Feedly Summary: As Adobe rolls out more generative AI features for the PDF, the era of chatbot-less software is firmly a thing of the past. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Adobe’s introduction of generative AI features for PDF editing…

  • Slashdot: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/0345252/us-spy-chief-gabbard-says-uk-agreed-to-drop-backdoor-mandate-for-apple?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent development in the UK’s approach to encryption and security, specifically regarding Apple and its iCloud data. The intervention by the Trump administration highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Google Gemini URL Context

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/18/google-gemini-url-context/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Google Gemini URL Context Feedly Summary: Google Gemini URL Context New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a…

  • Shabie’s blog: Agents are search over action space

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    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/08/18/agents-are-search-over-action-space.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Agents are search over action space Feedly Summary: It’s no secret that today’s LLM-based agents are unreliable. This makes them a gamble for most critical tasks, so where can they be safely applied? The answer lies in finding asymmetry: we should use them in domains where the downside…

  • The Register: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/microsoft_adds_copilot_ai_formulas/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells Feedly Summary: Meet the new COPILOT function Microsoft, in its ongoing effort to AI-ify every product it has, is now adding it right into the cells of Excel.  Available on Monday to beta users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new…

  • The Register: GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/ Source: The Register Title: GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire Feedly Summary: MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scale US companies have invested between $35 and $40 billion in Generative AI initiatives and, so far, have almost…