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Cloud Blog: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing

May 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/elastic-training-and-optimized-checkpointing-improve-ml-goodput/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing Feedly Summary: Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to…

Wired: Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

May 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/ Source: Wired Title: Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI Feedly Summary: Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses internal conflicts at Politico regarding the…

Cloud Blog: Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery

May 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/convert-ai-generated-unstructured-data-to-a-bigquery-table/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery Feedly Summary: The explosion of digital content from social media, smartphones, and other sources has created a massive amount of unstructured data like images, videos, and documents. To help you analyze this data, BigQuery is connected with…

Cloud Blog: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models

May 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-veo-3-imagen-4-and-lyria-2-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models Feedly Summary: Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2. We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s…

The Register: Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

May 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/20/gpu_metric/ Source: The Register Title: Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally Feedly Summary: Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver GPU accelerators used in AI processing are costly items, so making sure you get the best usage out…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

May 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

May 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

Slashdot: Curl Warns GitHub About ‘Malicious Unicode’ Security Issue

May 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/0420236/curl-warns-github-about-malicious-unicode-security-issue?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Curl Warns GitHub About ‘Malicious Unicode’ Security Issue Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security issue related to the use of Unicode characters in URLs within the Curl project, highlighting the impact of such changes and the subsequent measures taken to address it.…

The Register: Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

May 15, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/gpu_tracking_house/ Source: The Register Title: Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress Feedly Summary: Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you Proposed legislation gaining steam in Congress this week would require high-end GPUs and AI chips to include location-tracking…

Cloud Blog: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server

May 14, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/use-google-adk-and-mcp-with-an-external-server/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server Feedly Summary: For AI-powered agents to perform useful, real-world tasks, they need to reliably access tools and up-to-the-minute information that lives outside the base model. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to address this, providing…

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