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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/030232/facing-us-chip-restrictions-china-pitches-global-cooperation-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent announcements from China at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference regarding the establishment of an international organization for AI regulation and a cooperative action plan for responsible…

  • 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).…

  • Slashdot: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2043256/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s vision of integrating advertising into conversations with the AI-powered assistant Alexa+. This approach presents both opportunities and challenges, notably regarding user privacy and AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/updates-to-claude/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude Feedly Summary: Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don’t do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps – neither of these releases came…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud’s commitment to EU AI Act support

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-clouds-commitment-to-eu-ai-act-support/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud’s commitment to EU AI Act support Feedly Summary: Google Cloud is committed to being a trusted partner for customers who are navigating AI regulations in Europe. We have long understood that this requires a proactive and collaborative approach in order to ensure Europeans can access secure,…

  • Slashdot: China Claims Nvidia Built Backdoor Into H20 Chip Designed For Chinese Market

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/157224/china-claims-nvidia-built-backdoor-into-h20-chip-designed-for-chinese-market?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China Claims Nvidia Built Backdoor Into H20 Chip Designed For Chinese Market Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant development where Beijing has summoned Nvidia to address alleged security concerns tied to its AI chips. This situation impacts Nvidia’s operations in China and…

  • The Register: Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/silk_typhoon_attack_patents/ Source: The Register Title: Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says Feedly Summary: US court docs reveal that infamous Chinese snoops filed IP papers like tax returns Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Meta and Microsoft Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/business/dealbook/meta-microsoft-ai-spending-shares.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Meta and Microsoft Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza Feedly Summary: Shares in Microsoft and Meta soared to new highs on Thursday after the tech giants committed to invest billions more on artificial intelligence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text indicates significant…