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  • Slashdot: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/1132230/mckinsey-wonders-how-to-sell-ai-apps-with-no-measurable-benefits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software vendors in monetizing AI effectively, as highlighted by a McKinsey & Company report. It emphasizes issues like inflated costs, the struggle to…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: OpenAI Calls Codex a Senior Engineer

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/openai-calls-codex-a-senior-engineer/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: OpenAI Calls Codex a Senior Engineer Feedly Summary: For two years, Silicon Valley repeated the same mantra : AI agents are junior engineers. They need supervision. They handle routine tasks but struggle with complex problems. Then Thibault, OpenAI’s Codex team lead, delivered a line that broke the pattern…

  • Cloud Blog: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/150-ai-use-cases-leading-startups-and-digital-natives/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives Feedly Summary: We recently hosted our first-ever AI Builders Forum, where we gathered with hundreds of the top founders, VCs, advisors, researchers, and teams powering the startups who are building the future with AI. And…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…

  • Cloud Blog: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/cost-saving-strategies-when-migrating-to-google-cloud-compute/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today Feedly Summary: As the saying goes, “a penny saved is a penny earned," and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to cloud infrastructure. In today’s competitive business landscape, you need to maintain the performance to meet…

  • Cloud Blog: More choice, more control: self-deploy proprietary models in your VPC with Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/new-proprietary-models-vertex-model-garden/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: More choice, more control: self-deploy proprietary models in your VPC with Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Building the best AI applications requires both the freedom to choose the most powerful, specialized model for the task at hand, and a platform that can handle them all. This flexibility is core…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/2142243/microsofts-cto-hopes-to-swap-most-amd-and-nvidia-gpus-for-in-house-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is transitioning its AI workloads from traditional GPUs to its proprietary accelerators to enhance cost efficiency in its datacenters. This move exemplifies a trend towards customized hardware…

  • Slashdot: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/2027237/google-confirms-android-dev-verification-will-have-free-and-paid-tiers-no-public-list-of-devs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s upcoming changes in Android 16 regarding app installation and verification, underscoring increased reliance on cloud-based processes and potential costs for developers.…

  • Slashdot: Jeff Bezos Predicts Gigawatt Data Centers in Space Within Two Decades

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/1426244/jeff-bezos-predicts-gigawatt-data-centers-in-space-within-two-decades?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Jeff Bezos Predicts Gigawatt Data Centers in Space Within Two Decades Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Jeff Bezos envisions the future of data centers in space, predicting that gigawatt-scale facilities will be established within the next 10 to 20 years. These space-based data centers could outperform…