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  • Cloud Blog: Partnering with leading mobile operators for API-based phone number verification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/firebase-phone-number-verification-for-ogi-based-apps/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Partnering with leading mobile operators for API-based phone number verification Feedly Summary: For communication service providers (CSPs), a major hurdle in monetizing their networks is engaging the developer community effectively. Historically, complex, non-standardized APIs and a lack of developer-friendly resources have limited access to valuable network capabilities, preventing…

  • Hacker News: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet-the-journalists-training-ai-models-for-meta-and-openai/ Source: Hacker News Title: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the increasing trend of journalists transitioning to data-related roles, particularly in AI model training, due to economic pressures in traditional journalism. It highlights how…

  • Hacker News: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models

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    Source URL: https://www.kapa.ai/blog/evaluating-modular-rag-with-reasoning-models Source: Hacker News Title: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the challenges and potential of Modular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using reasoning models like o3-mini. It emphasizes the distinction between reasoning capabilities and practical experience in tool usage, highlighting insights…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Deep research System Card

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/deep-research-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Deep research System Card Feedly Summary: Deep research System Card OpenAI are rolling out their Deep research “agentic" research tool to their $20/month ChatGPT Plus users today, who get 10 queries a month. $200/month ChatGPT Pro gets 120 uses. Deep research is the best version of this…

  • The Register: IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/ibm_datastax/ Source: The Register Title: IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax Feedly Summary: Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Hacker News: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

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    Source URL: https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the innovative application of large language models (LLMs) in document ranking, particularly for locating vulnerabilities in code patches. It presents a novel approach to addressing complex security problems by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked Windsurf prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked Windsurf prompt Feedly Summary: Leaked Windsurf prompt The Windurf Editor is Codeium’s highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by Cursor (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a quirky system prompt, and was able to replicate that…

  • CSA: Global ICS Exposures: State of the Internet Report

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/global-ics-exposures-what-our-state-of-the-internet-report-reveals-about-critical-infrastructure-security Source: CSA Title: Global ICS Exposures: State of the Internet Report Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses critical vulnerabilities within Industrial Control Systems (ICS), particularly focusing on the exposure of Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) that pose significant security risks. With many HMIs lacking robust security measures and connected…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic 0.14 Annotated release notes for my new release of LLM. The signature feature is: Support for the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, including -o thinking 1 and -o thinking_budget X for extended reasoning mode. #14 I had a couple of attempts at…