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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source

Apr 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/14/llms-as-the-first-line-of-support/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source Feedly Summary: Using LLMs as the first line of support in Open Source From reading the title I was nervous that this might involve automating the initial response to a user support query in an issue…

Cloud Blog: What’s new with BigQuery — the autonomous data-to-AI platform

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-emerges-as-autonomous-data-to-ai-platform/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new with BigQuery — the autonomous data-to-AI platform Feedly Summary: Data is the fuel for AI, and organizations are racing to leverage enterprise data to build AI agents, intelligent search, and AI-powered analytics for productivity, deeper insights, and a competitive edge. To power their data clouds, tens…

Cloud Blog: Looker adds AI-fueled visual, conversational data exploration, continuous integration

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/looker-bi-platform-gets-ai-powered-data-exploration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Looker adds AI-fueled visual, conversational data exploration, continuous integration Feedly Summary: Today at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we’re announcing a major step in making Looker the most powerful platform for data analysis and exploration,by enhancing it with powerful AI capabilities and a new reporting experience, all built on…

Cloud Blog: Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across video, image, speech, and music

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/expanding-generative-media-for-enterprise-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Vertex AI is now the only platform with generative media models across video, image, speech, and music Feedly Summary: Today, we’re continuing to invest in generative media by adding Lyria, Google’s text-to-music model, to Vertex AI in preview with allowlist. With the addition of music, Vertex AI is…

Cloud Blog: What’s new for Data Analytics in the AI driven, autonomous and agentic era

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/data-analytics-innovations-at-next25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new for Data Analytics in the AI driven, autonomous and agentic era Feedly Summary: Today’s fast-paced environment demands more than just data access; it requires a real-time data activation flywheel. A new reality is emerging where AI, infused directly into the data landscape, works hand-in-hand with intelligent…

Cloud Blog: Google Cloud databases supercharge the AI developer experience

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/whats-new-for-google-cloud-databases-at-next25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud databases supercharge the AI developer experience Feedly Summary: Generative AI continues to capture our imagination and promises to transform every industry. Its transformative potential hinges on integrating powerful models like Gemini, with the most contextually-relevant enterprise data. Google Cloud is leading this transformation, not only by…

AWS News Blog: Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications

Apr 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-sonic-human-like-voice-conversations-for-generative-ai-applications/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications Feedly Summary: Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andriy Burkov

Apr 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/6/andriy-burkov/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andriy Burkov Feedly Summary: […] The disappointing releases of both GPT-4.5 and Llama 4 have shown that if you don’t train a model to reason with reinforcement learning, increasing its size no longer provides benefits. Reinforcement learning is limited only to domains where a reward can…

Cloud Blog: Instance Replication now available for Filestore

Apr 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/filestore-instance-replication-now-available/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Instance Replication now available for Filestore Feedly Summary: We are excited to announce Filestore Instance Replication on Google Cloud, which helps customers meet their business continuity goals and regulatory requirements. The feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates…

Cloud Blog: Accelerate analytics with AI-assisted data preparation in BigQuery, now GA

Mar 31, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/ai-assisted-bigquery-data-preparation-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate analytics with AI-assisted data preparation in BigQuery, now GA Feedly Summary: According to Gartner®, “Gartner clients now report that 90% or more of their time is spent preparing data (as high as 94% in complex industries) for advanced analytics, data science and data engineering.”1. Last year, we…

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