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  • Cloud Blog: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/global-harms-restrictive-cloud-licensing-one-year-later/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later Feedly Summary: A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • The Register: Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/big_clouds_scramble_over_eu/ Source: The Register Title: Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules Feedly Summary: Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked Most of the provisions of the EU Data Act will officially come into force from the end of this week, requiring cloud providers…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0623240/openais-gpt-5-sees-a-big-surge-in-enterprise-use?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and compares its performance and pricing with Anthropic’s model, Claude. It highlights the enterprise market’s interest in GPT-5, noting significant improvements in coding…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • Cloud Blog: The Dataproc advantage: Advanced Spark features that will transform your analytics and AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/why-use-dataproc-for-your-apache-spark-environment/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The Dataproc advantage: Advanced Spark features that will transform your analytics and AI Feedly Summary: With its exceptional price-performance, Google Cloud’s Dataproc has evolved from a simple, managed open-source software (OSS) service to a powerhouse in Apache Spark and open lakehouses, driving the analytics and AI workloads of…

  • Slashdot: Is China Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/2022253/is-china-quickly-eroding-americas-lead-in-the-global-ai-race?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is China Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text outlines China’s aggressive investments in its AI supply chain to reduce dependence on U.S. technologies, highlighting the growing global competitiveness of Chinese AI companies such as DeepSeek…

  • Slashdot: Indian IT Faces Its Kodak Moment

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/15/0259250/indian-it-faces-its-kodak-moment?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Indian IT Faces Its Kodak Moment Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the impact of Generative AI on the global IT services industry, particularly focusing on Indian technology firms. It highlights the balance between productivity gains from AI and the pressure on revenue due…