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  • Slashdot: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/1132230/mckinsey-wonders-how-to-sell-ai-apps-with-no-measurable-benefits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software vendors in monetizing AI effectively, as highlighted by a McKinsey & Company report. It emphasizes issues like inflated costs, the struggle to…

  • Slashdot: Insurers Balk At Paying Out Huge Settlements For Claims Against AI Firms

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/207203/insurers-balk-at-paying-out-huge-settlements-for-claims-against-ai-firms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Insurers Balk At Paying Out Huge Settlements For Claims Against AI Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses OpenAI and Anthropic’s challenges in obtaining sufficient insurance coverage for potential legal claims related to artificial intelligence, highlighting the burgeoning risks in the AI landscape. It…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI and AMD Strike Multibillion-Dollar Chip Partnership

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/141218/openai-and-amd-strike-multibillion-dollar-chip-partnership?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI and AMD Strike Multibillion-Dollar Chip Partnership Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI and AMD’s collaboration focuses on extensive acquisitions of AMD’s AI processors, signaling a significant shift in the AI hardware landscape. This multibillion-dollar partnership is poised to challenge Nvidia’s market dominance in AI semiconductors,…

  • Slashdot: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/2027237/google-confirms-android-dev-verification-will-have-free-and-paid-tiers-no-public-list-of-devs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s upcoming changes in Android 16 regarding app installation and verification, underscoring increased reliance on cloud-based processes and potential costs for developers.…

  • The Register: Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/cybercrims_claim_raid_on_28000/ Source: The Register Title: Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files Feedly Summary: 570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat’s private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/25/improved-gemini-25-flash-and-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Feedly Summary: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite Two new preview models from Google – updates to their fast and inexpensive Flash and Flash Lite families: The latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was trained and built based on three key…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Luan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/james-luan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Luan Feedly Summary: I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer…

  • The Register: Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/anthropic_settles_author_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Feedly Summary: Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used…