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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agents are models using tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agents are models using tools in a loop Feedly Summary: I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word “agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide a useful definition. I’m now in the…

  • The Register: Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/chinese_crew_us_city_utilities/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos Feedly Summary: Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US local government networks and target…

  • The Register: Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/bain_capital_hscale/ Source: The Register Title: Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Feedly Summary: Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/anthropics-claude-opus-4-and-claude-sonnet-4-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both…

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

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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…

  • OpenAI : Introducing Stargate UAE

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae Source: OpenAI Title: Introducing Stargate UAE Feedly Summary: We’re launching Stargate UAE – the first international deployment of Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The launch of Stargate UAE marks a significant milestone as the first international deployment of OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. This development is particularly…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Resolving a request smuggling vulnerability in Pingora

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/resolving-a-request-smuggling-vulnerability-in-pingora/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Resolving a request smuggling vulnerability in Pingora Feedly Summary: Cloudflare patched a vulnerability (CVE-2025-4366) in the Pingora OSS framework, which exposed users of the framework and Cloudflare CDN’s free tier to potential request smuggling attacks. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recently discovered…

  • NCSC Feed: New ETSI standard protects AI systems from evolving cyber threats

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/new-etsi-standard-protects-ai-systems-from-evolving-cyber-threats Source: NCSC Feed Title: New ETSI standard protects AI systems from evolving cyber threats Feedly Summary: The NCSC and DSIT work with ETSI to ‘set a benchmark for securing AI’. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The collaboration between the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology…

  • The Register: ‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/ditching_us_clouds_for_local/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Close to impossible’ for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Feedly Summary: Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won’t happen, say analysts European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to…