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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/ai-and-jobs-with-natasha-zouves/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation Feedly Summary: I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-mistral 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-mistral-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-mistral 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral’s new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I’m not using an official client library for llm-mistral – I rolled…

  • Cloud Blog: Vertex AI Studio, redesigned: Your source for generative AI media models across all modalities

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/vertex-ai-studio-redesigned/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Vertex AI Studio, redesigned: Your source for generative AI media models across all modalities Feedly Summary: Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform makes it easy to experiment with and customize over 200 advanced foundation models – like the latest Google Gemini models, and third-party partner models such as Meta’s…

  • Slashdot: At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun To Resemble Warehouse Work

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/1541224/at-amazon-some-coders-say-their-jobs-have-begun-to-resemble-warehouse-work?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun To Resemble Warehouse Work Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how AI tools are reshaping the roles of software engineers at Amazon, leading to increased productivity demands and a more rapid work environment. Engineers report…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Releases Claude 4 Models That Can Autonomously Work For Nearly a Full Corporate Workday

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/1653257/anthropic-releases-claude-4-models-that-can-autonomously-work-for-nearly-a-full-corporate-workday Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Releases Claude 4 Models That Can Autonomously Work For Nearly a Full Corporate Workday Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, advanced coding and generative AI models, showcasing significant improvements in performance and capabilities, particularly for development…

  • Slashdot: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/2021255/the-information-microsoft-engineers-forced-to-dig-their-own-ai-graves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses the implications of Microsoft instructing its engineers to rely more heavily on artificial intelligence for code generation, highlighting a potential risk to job security for software…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…

  • 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…