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  • The Register: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/ Source: The Register Title: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Feedly Summary: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don’t bother with anything more complex A UK government department’s three-month trial of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up…

  • Enterprise AI Trends: Using AI to Extract B2B Leads from Unstructured Data

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    Source URL: https://nextword.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-extract-b2b-leads-from Source: Enterprise AI Trends Title: Using AI to Extract B2B Leads from Unstructured Data Feedly Summary: With AI, everything can be turned into a data pipeline AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the application of AI and unstructured data in go-to-market (GTM) strategies, particularly focusing on automating lead generation…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-most-efficient-ai-inference-engine/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network Feedly Summary: Infire is an LLM inference engine that employs a range of techniques to maximize resource utilization, allowing us to serve AI models more efficiently with better performance for Cloudflare workloads. AI Summary and Description:…

  • Cisco Security Blog: Fragmented SSE Is a Risk You Can’t Afford

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    Source URL: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/fragmented-sse-is-a-risk-you-cant-afford Source: Cisco Security Blog Title: Fragmented SSE Is a Risk You Can’t Afford Feedly Summary: Cisco Secure Access solves the problem of point product patchworks, offering a unified architecture that moves with the user, not just the network. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Cisco Secure Access, which addresses…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/too-many-mcps/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Feedly Summary: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP. Geoffrey estimate estimates that…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/04/microsoft-entra-suite-delivers-131-roi-by-unifying-identity-and-network-access/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access Feedly Summary: According to a new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study, organizations using the Microsoft Entra Suite achieved a 131% ROI, $14.4 million in benefits, and payback in less than six months. The post Microsoft…

  • Docker: Accelerate modernization and cloud migration

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/accelerate-modernization-and-cloud-migration/ Source: Docker Title: Accelerate modernization and cloud migration Feedly Summary: In our recent report, we describe that many enterprises today face a stark reality: despite years of digital transformation efforts, the majority of enterprise workloads—up to 80%—still run on legacy systems. This lag in modernization not only increases operational costs and security…