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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/generative-ai-the-power-and-the-glory/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory Feedly Summary: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory Michael Liebreich’s epic report for BloombergNEF on the current state of play with regards to generative AI, energy usage and data center growth. I learned so much from reading…

  • Hacker News: Things we learned out about LLMs in 2024

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/ Source: Hacker News Title: Things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant advancements and trends in Large Language Models (LLMs) throughout 2024, highlighting new technologies, efficiency improvements, cost reductions, and issues such as model usability and environmental impact. It…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Slashdot: Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago To Replace Workers With AI

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/13/1541225/klarna-stopped-all-hiring-a-year-ago-to-replace-workers-with-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Klarna Stopped All Hiring a Year Ago To Replace Workers With AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights how Klarna, a buy now, pay later finance provider, has leveraged AI to streamline operations, resulting in a significant reduction in workforce and wage expenses. CEO…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Slashdot: Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Projects Like ‘AI Teaching Assistant’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/07/1736233/amazon-offers-100m-in-cloud-computing-credits-for-projects-like-ai-teaching-assistant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Projects Like ‘AI Teaching Assistant’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AWS announced a $100 million allocation in cloud-computing credits for educational organizations to enhance technology-based learning experiences. This includes the development of AI assistants and other educational tools, which…

  • Hacker News: MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents

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    Source URL: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-researchers-develop-efficiency-training-more-reliable-ai-agents-1122 Source: Hacker News Title: MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses an innovative approach developed by MIT researchers to improve the efficiency of reinforcement learning models for decision-making tasks, particularly in traffic signal control. The…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-the-high-security-cost-of-legacy-tech/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today I’m joined by Andy Wen, Google Cloud’s senior director of product management for Google Workspace, to discuss a new Google survey into the high security…

  • Slashdot: IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done On Quantum Hardware

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/018246/ibm-boosts-the-amount-of-computation-you-can-get-done-on-quantum-hardware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done On Quantum Hardware Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses IBM’s advancements in quantum computing, particularly the introduction of the Heron processor version 2, which increases reliability and efficiency in calculations despite existing errors. It…

  • Cloud Blog: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-sixth-generation-tpu-is-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future Feedly Summary: The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing…