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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Max Woolf

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/max-woolf/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Max Woolf Feedly Summary: Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) LLM provider cost economics are too negative to return positive ROI to investors, and (b) LLMs are useful for solving problems that are meaningful and high impact, albeit not to the AGI hype that would…

  • Slashdot: Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/15/182244/google-deepmind-is-hiring-a-post-agi-research-scientist?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how major AI research firms, particularly Google and its DeepMind division, are preparing for a future beyond achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Despite the current lack of evidence supporting imminent…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/232215/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-plan-for-colleges-and-universities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is launching “Claude for Education,” an AI-powered educational tool designed for higher education settings, enhancing critical thinking among students. The offering features enterprise-grade security and privacy controls, collaborating with institutions…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud at GTC: A4 VMs now generally available, A4X VMs in preview

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-goes-to-nvidia-gtc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud at GTC: A4 VMs now generally available, A4X VMs in preview Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re thrilled to return to NVIDIA’s GTC AI Conference in San Jose CA this March 17-21 with our largest presence ever. The annual conference brings together thousands of developers, innovators,…

  • The Register: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/training_inference_shift/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game Feedly Summary: When it’s all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what’s behind the curtain? Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google’s TPUs or Amazon’s Trainium ASICs, the vast majority…

  • The Register: Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of…AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/workday_restructure_job_cuts/ Source: The Register Title: Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of…AI Feedly Summary: That’s 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it’s only February Workday is erasing 8.5 percent of its personnel under a restructuring scheme because… AI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Workday is undergoing significant restructuring, laying…

  • Hacker News: RLHF Book

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    Source URL: https://rlhfbook.com/ Source: Hacker News Title: RLHF Book Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the concept of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), particularly its relevance in the development of machine learning systems, particularly within language models. It highlights the foundational aspects of RLHF while aiming to provide…

  • Cloud Blog: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-a4-vms-powered-by-nvidia-b200-gpu-aka-blackwell/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview Feedly Summary: Modern AI workloads require powerful accelerators and high-speed interconnects to run sophisticated model architectures on an ever-growing diverse range of model sizes and modalities. In addition to large-scale training, these complex models…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: On DeepSeek and Export Controls

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/on-deepseek-and-export-controls/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: On DeepSeek and Export Controls Feedly Summary: On DeepSeek and Export Controls Anthropic CEO (and previously GPT-2/GPT-3 development lead at OpenAI) Dario Amodei’s essay about DeepSeek includes a lot of interesting background on the last few years of AI development. Dario was one of the authors on…