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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/disney-universal-midjourney/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement Feedly Summary: Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement This is a big one. It’s very easy to demonstrate that Midjourney will output images of copyright protected characters (like Darth Vader or Yoda) based…

  • Slashdot: Cisco Updates Networking Products in Bid To Tap AI-Fueled Demand

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/1557211/cisco-updates-networking-products-in-bid-to-tap-ai-fueled-demand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cisco Updates Networking Products in Bid To Tap AI-Fueled Demand Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cisco is enhancing its networking and security products to better support AI applications, addressing the urgent need for faster data transfer to avoid performance bottlenecks. The introduction of new switches promises…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/m4-vms-are-designed-for-memory-intensive-workloads-like-sap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the memory-optimized machine series: Compute Engine M4, our most performant memory-optimized VM with under 6TB of memory.  The M4 family is designed for workloads like SAP…

  • Slashdot: After ‘AI-First’ Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits ‘I Did Not Expect the Blowback’

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/08/185209/after-ai-first-promise-duolingo-ceo-admits-i-did-not-expect-the-blowback?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: After ‘AI-First’ Promise, Duolingo CEO Admits ‘I Did Not Expect the Blowback’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Duolingo’s CEO, Luis von Ahn, emphasizes a shift towards an “AI-first” strategy amid concerns about job replacement by technology. He reassures that this approach focuses on automating repetitive tasks,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/comma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text Feedly Summary: It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half…

  • Transformer Circuits Thread: Circuits Updates

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    Source URL: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/april-update/index.html Source: Transformer Circuits Thread Title: Circuits Updates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses emerging research and methodologies in the field of machine learning interpretability, specifically focusing on large language models (LLMs). It examines the mechanisms by which these models respond to harmful requests (like making bomb instructions)…

  • Slashdot: Fake IT Support Calls Hit 20 Orgs, End in Stolen Salesforce Data and Extortion, Google Warns

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/1654250/fake-it-support-calls-hit-20-orgs-end-in-stolen-salesforce-data-and-extortion-google-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Fake IT Support Calls Hit 20 Orgs, End in Stolen Salesforce Data and Extortion, Google Warns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a cybersecurity incident involving a group of financially motivated scammers, known as UNC6040, who executed voice-phishing attacks to manipulate employees into installing…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…