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  • Slashdot: NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/26/0742205/nyt-asks-should-we-start-taking-the-welfare-of-ai-seriously Source: Slashdot Title: NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the burgeoning concept of “AI model welfare,” questioning whether advanced AI systems may warrant moral consideration akin to that given to sentient beings. This idea, gaining traction…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerate your data-to-insights journey with enhanced BigQuery data canvas

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/exploring-new-bigquery-data-canvas-ai-assistant-features/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate your data-to-insights journey with enhanced BigQuery data canvas Feedly Summary: In today’s data-driven world, the ability to extract meaningful insights quickly is paramount. Yet, for many, the journey from raw data to actionable intelligence is fraught with challenges. Complex SQL queries, time-consuming iterative analyses, and the gap…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals Feedly Summary: I used part three (here’s parts one and two) of Dave Guarino’s series on evaluating how well LLMs can answer questions about SNAP (aka food stamps) as an excuse to explore Promptfoo, an LLM eval tool. SNAP (Supplemental…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/24/new-whitepaper-outlines-the-taxonomy-of-failure-modes-in-ai-agents/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents Feedly Summary: Read the new whitepaper from the Microsoft AI Red Team to better understand the taxonomy of failure mode in agentic AI. The post New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents…

  • Cloud Blog: DORA’s new report: Unlock generative AI in software development

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/sharing-new-dora-research-for-gen-ai-in-software-development/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: DORA’s new report: Unlock generative AI in software development Feedly Summary: How is generative AI actually impacting developers’ daily work, team dynamics, and organizational outcomes? We’ve moved beyond simply asking if organizations are using AI, and instead are focusing on how they’re using it. That’s why we’re excited…

  • Cloud Blog: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/migrating-from-mysql-to-spanner-is-easier-now/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier Feedly Summary: Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Public Sector and Palantir collaborate to bring Google Cloud to FedStart

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-public-sector-and-palantir-collaborate-to-bring-google-cloud-to-fedstart/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Public Sector and Palantir collaborate to bring Google Cloud to FedStart Feedly Summary: At Google Public Sector, we are committed to helping our customers execute their missions. Now, we’re expanding this commitment by adding support for Palantir’s FedStart platform, so public sector customers can utilize software and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…

  • Cloud Blog: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced incredible ways for enterprises to build multi-agent ecosystems with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Databases – including better ways for agents to communicate with each other using Agent2Agent…