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Cloud Blog: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services

Jun 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/how-conversational-agents-and-looker-can-boost-contact-center-efficiency-and-enhance-constituent-services/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Conversational Agents and Looker can boost contact center efficiency and enhance constituent services Feedly Summary: Conversational agents are transforming the way public sector agencies engage with constituents — enabling new levels of hyper-personalization, multimodal conversations, and improving interactions across touchpoints. And this is just the beginning. Our…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

The Register: Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/oxford_city_council_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data Feedly Summary: Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…

Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-bigquery-enhanced-vectorization/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime Feedly Summary: Under the hood, there’s a lot of technology and expertise that goes into delivering the performance you get from BigQuery, Google Cloud’s data to AI platform. Separating storage and compute provides unique resource allocation flexibility and…

SecurityBrief Australia: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://securitybrief.com.au/story/cloud-security-alliance-launches-valid-ai-ted-tool-for-star-checks Source: SecurityBrief Australia Title: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks Feedly Summary: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The launch of Valid-AI-ted by the Cloud Security Alliance represents a significant advancement in cloud security assessments, harnessing AI technologies to automate…

Cloud Blog: Enhancing backup vaults with support for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and multi-regions

Jun 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/backup-vaults-add-support-for-disk-backup-and-multi-region/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Enhancing backup vaults with support for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and multi-regions Feedly Summary: To help protect against evolving digital threats like ransomware and malicious deletions, last year, we introduced backup vault in the Google Cloud Backup and DR service, with support for Compute Engine VM backups. This provided…

Cloud Blog: Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI

Jun 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-flash-pro-ga-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Gemini momentum continues with launch of 2.5 Flash-Lite and general availability of 2.5 Flash and Pro on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: The momentum of the Gemini 2.5 era continues to build. Following our recent announcements, we’re empowering enterprise builders and developers with even greater access to the intelligence,…

Cloud Blog: GKE workload scheduling: Strategies for when resources get tight

Jun 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-features-to-optimize-resource-allocation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GKE workload scheduling: Strategies for when resources get tight Feedly Summary: As a customer of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you’ve selected a container runtime with a high degree of managed operations, encompassing everything from automatic upgrades to effortless node management. This inherent efficiency allows you to focus more…

Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

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