Tag: competitive

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/anthropic_claude_opus_4_sonnet/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic’s Claude 4 models more willing than before to blackmail some users Feedly Summary: Open the pod bay door Anthropic on Thursday announced the availability of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the latest iteration of its Claude family of machine learning models.… AI Summary and Description:…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Updated Anthropic model comparison table

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/updated-anthropic-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Updated Anthropic model comparison table Feedly Summary: Updated Anthropic model comparison table A few details in here about Claude 4 that I hadn’t spotted elsewhere: The training cut-off date for Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 is March 2025! That’s the most recent cut-off for any…

The Register: Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/bain_capital_hscale/ Source: The Register Title: Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Feedly Summary: Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from…

The Register: SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/sap_sapphire_costs/ Source: The Register Title: SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels Feedly Summary: Vendor’s AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs News that SAP users face a 30-50 percent premium to get some cloud products – including core ERP – to industry-standard service levels threatens to…

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: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/the-ai-driven-telecom-a-new-era-of-network-transformation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation Feedly Summary: The telecommunications industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with AI and generative AI emerging as key catalysts. Communication service providers (CSPs) are increasingly recognizing that these technologies are not merely incremental improvements but fundamental drivers for achieving…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Nvidia’s Chief Says U.S. Chip Controls on China Have Backfired

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/nvidia-china-washington-chip-controls-failure.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Nvidia’s Chief Says U.S. Chip Controls on China Have Backfired Feedly Summary: Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s top executive, said the attempt to cut off the flow of advanced A.I. chips spurred Chinese companies to “accelerate their development.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

The Register: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’

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