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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemma 3 QAT Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/gemma-3-qat-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemma 3 QAT Models Feedly Summary: Gemma 3 QAT Models Interesting release from Google, as a follow-up to Gemma 3 from last month: To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Modernizing Snowflake Corporate’s Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/modernizing-snowflake-corporates-kubernetes-infrastructure-with-bottlerocket-and-karpenter/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Modernizing Snowflake Corporate’s Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter Feedly Summary: Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating system. The existing…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2224205/microsoft-researchers-develop-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a highly efficient 1-bit AI model featuring 2 billion parameters, optimized for CPU use and accessible under an MIT license. It surpasses competitors in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Feedly Summary: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Gemini’s latest model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, available in (paid) preview as gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while…

  • CSA: Cloud File Transfer: Most Secure Cloud Configuration

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    Source URL: https://blog.axway.com/product-insights/managed-file-transfer/upgrade-with-cloud-mft Source: CSA Title: Cloud File Transfer: Most Secure Cloud Configuration Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the necessary transition from Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions to cloud-native approaches, emphasizing the modernization driven by cloud adoption. It highlights the growing complexity of MFT, the benefits of cloud solutions,…

  • The Register: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/microsoft_copilot_computer_use/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer? Feedly Summary: Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on…