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

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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

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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…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • The Register: Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/bing_search_apis_retired/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative Feedly Summary: Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

  • The Register: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/google_deepmind_debuts_algorithm_evolving/ Source: The Register Title: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos Feedly Summary: AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too Google’s AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its “evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize…

  • Slashdot: Google DeepMind Creates Super-Advanced AI That Can Invent New Algorithms

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/14/2212200/google-deepmind-creates-super-advanced-ai-that-can-invent-new-algorithms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google DeepMind Creates Super-Advanced AI That Can Invent New Algorithms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s DeepMind has introduced AlphaEvolve, a groundbreaking AI agent that utilizes a large language model with an evolutionary approach to tackle complex math and science problems. This general-purpose AI demonstrates significant…

  • The Register: The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce’s Benioff says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/future_of_llms_is_open/ Source: The Register Title: The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce’s Benioff says Feedly Summary: Cheaper, open source LLMs will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.……

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

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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…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/new-google-cloud-certification-in-generative-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification Feedly Summary: Organizations are rapidly integrating generative AI in ways that directly impact all employees, not just technical teams. We’re seeing this across a variety of customer use cases. For instance, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs reports employees saving an…