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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agents are models using tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agents are models using tools in a loop Feedly Summary: I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word “agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide a useful definition. I’m now in the…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/anthropics-claude-opus-4-and-claude-sonnet-4-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both…

  • Cloud Blog: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/elastic-training-and-optimized-checkpointing-improve-ml-goodput/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing Feedly Summary: Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to…

  • OpenAI : Introducing Stargate UAE

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae Source: OpenAI Title: Introducing Stargate UAE Feedly Summary: We’re launching Stargate UAE – the first international deployment of Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The launch of Stargate UAE marks a significant milestone as the first international deployment of OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. This development is particularly…

  • The Register: ‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/ditching_us_clouds_for_local/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Feedly Summary: Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won’t happen, say analysts European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini Diffusion

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini Diffusion Feedly Summary: Gemini Diffusion Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google’s first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. Google describe it like this: Traditional autoregressive language models generate text…

  • Cloud Blog: A deep dive into AlloyDB’s vector search enhancements

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-ais-scann-index-improves-search-on-all-kinds-of-data/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A deep dive into AlloyDB’s vector search enhancements Feedly Summary: If you’re building a generative AI application or an AI agent, there’s a high likelihood you’ll need to perform simultaneous searches on structured and unstructured data. For example, the prompt “Show me all pictures of sunsets I took…

  • The Register: Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about Uncle Sam’s servers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/google_sovereign_cloud_updates/ Source: The Register Title: Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about Uncle Sam’s servers Feedly Summary: From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers…