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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: olmOCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/26/olmocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: olmOCR Feedly Summary: olmOCR New from Ai2 – olmOCR is “an open-source tool designed for high-throughput conversion of PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving natural reading order". At its core is allenai/olmOCR-7B-0225-preview, a Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct variant trained on ~250,000 pages of diverse PDF content (both…

  • Hacker News: Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to Multiple GenAI Providers

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    Source URL: https://engineering.grab.com/grab-ai-gateway Source: Hacker News Title: Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to Multiple GenAI Providers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation and significance of Grab’s AI Gateway, an integrated platform that facilitates access to multiple AI providers for users within the organization. It highlights the gateway’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Optimizing image generation pipelines on Google Cloud: A practical guide

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/guide-to-optimizing-image-generation-pipelines/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Optimizing image generation pipelines on Google Cloud: A practical guide Feedly Summary: Generative AI diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Flux produce stunning visuals, empowering creators across various verticals with impressive image generation capabilities. However, generating high-quality images through sophisticated pipelines can be computationally demanding, even with…

  • The Register: Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/automated_tool_scans_public_repos/ Source: The Register Title: Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos Feedly Summary: You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys … but so can miscreants A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Eases Content Restrictions For ChatGPT With New ‘Grown-Up Mode’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/14/2156202/openai-eases-content-restrictions-for-chatgpt-with-new-grown-up-mode?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Eases Content Restrictions For ChatGPT With New ‘Grown-Up Mode’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent update to OpenAI’s “Model Spec” showcases a significant policy change permitting the generation of sensitive content, such as erotica and gore, under specific conditions. This shift raises important implications…

  • Slashdot: Tech Leaders Hold Back on AI Agents Despite Vendor Push, Survey Shows

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/1626227/tech-leaders-hold-back-on-ai-agents-despite-vendor-push-survey-shows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Tech Leaders Hold Back on AI Agents Despite Vendor Push, Survey Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Corporate tech leaders are reluctant to adopt AI agents despite pressures from vendors. While experimentation is happening, significant concerns about reliability, cybersecurity, and data privacy persist. Executives are increasingly…

  • Hacker News: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry

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    Source URL: https://www.nuanced.dev/blog/system-wide-context Source: Hacker News Title: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges that developers face with AI coding assistants due to the lack of crucial operational context in debugging scenarios. It outlines a series of experiments aimed at…

  • Hacker News: Open source AI: Red Hat’s point-of-view

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    Source URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-source-ai-red-hats-point-view Source: Hacker News Title: Open source AI: Red Hat’s point-of-view Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Red Hat advocates for the principles of open source AI, emphasizing the necessity of open source-licensed model weights in tandem with open source software components. This stance is rooted in the belief that…