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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Is Open-Sourcing Its Linux Integration Services Automation Image-Testing Service

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/14/215254/microsoft-is-open-sourcing-its-linux-integration-services-automation-image-testing-service?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Is Open-Sourcing Its Linux Integration Services Automation Image-Testing Service Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has announced a new service for Azure that aims to enhance the deployment and management of Linux distributions, addressing the increasing demand as Linux becomes a predominant operating system within…

  • The Register: The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce’s Benioff says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/future_of_llms_is_open/ Source: The Register Title: The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce’s Benioff says Feedly Summary: Cheaper, open source LLMs will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.……

  • Cloud Blog: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/use-google-adk-and-mcp-with-an-external-server/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server Feedly Summary: For AI-powered agents to perform useful, real-world tasks, they need to reliably access tools and up-to-the-minute information that lives outside the base model. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to address this, providing…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/new-google-cloud-certification-in-generative-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification Feedly Summary: Organizations are rapidly integrating generative AI in ways that directly impact all employees, not just technical teams. We’re seeing this across a variety of customer use cases. For instance, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs reports employees saving an…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/read-doras-latest-research-on-software-excellence/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents Feedly Summary: According to DORA’s latest research – the Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report – AI tools are making software developers feel more productive, focused, and satisfied. They’re even writing better code and documentation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.26a0 adds support for tools!

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/14/llm-adds-support-for-tools/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.26a0 adds support for tools! Feedly Summary: LLM 0.26a0 adds support for tools! It’s only an alpha so I’m not going to promote this extensively yet, but my LLM project just grew a feature I’ve been working towards for nearly two years now: tool support! I’m…

  • Cloud Blog: Evaluate your gen media models with multimodal evaluation on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/evaluate-your-gen-media-models-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Evaluate your gen media models with multimodal evaluation on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: The world of generative AI is moving fast, with models like Lyria, Imagen, and Veo now capable of producing stunningly realistic and imaginative images and videos from simple text prompts. However, evaluating these models is…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing open-source enhancements to LangChain PostgreSQL

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/open-source-enhancements-to-langchain-postgresql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing open-source enhancements to LangChain PostgreSQL Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next ‘25, we announced upgrades to the core LangChain Postgres package and became a major contributor to the library. These improvements underscore our vision that every application developer is a gen AI developer – one that is…

  • Cloud Blog: Democratizing database observability with AI-assisted troubleshooting

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/inside-ai-assisted-troubleshooting-for-databases/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Democratizing database observability with AI-assisted troubleshooting Feedly Summary: As organizations adopt DevOps practices, application developers are increasingly expected to not only build applications but also manage and operate the databases they use. This added responsibility can prolong the application development process and time to market, primarily because developers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/vision-language-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Feedly Summary: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Extremely useful review of the last year in vision and multi-modal LLMs. So much has happened! I’m particularly excited about the range of small open weight vision models that are now available. Models…