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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, though future models will be much bigger. —…

  • Slashdot: HP To Acquire Parts of Humane, Shut Down the AI Pin

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/18/2245242/hp-to-acquire-parts-of-humane-shut-down-the-ai-pin?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: HP To Acquire Parts of Humane, Shut Down the AI Pin Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: HP’s acquisition of assets from Humane, including its software and AI integration team, highlights a significant move towards embedding artificial intelligence into its product lines. This is relevant for professionals…

  • The Register: Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/startup_datacenter_biogas/ Source: The Register Title: Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy Feedly Summary: Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says A UK datacenter startup realized it could have to wait until the late 2030s for power grid connection dates, and has instead turned to modular…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/10/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Knowing when to use AI turns out to be a form of wisdom, not just technical knowledge. Like most wisdom, it’s somewhat paradoxical: AI is often most useful where we’re already expert enough to spot its mistakes, yet least helpful in the…

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/7/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: A test of how seriously your firm is taking AI: when o-1 (& the new Gemini) came out this week, were there assigned folks who immediately ran the model through internal, validated, firm-specific benchmarks to see how useful it as? Did you…

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which…