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  • Slashdot: AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1910215/ai-is-more-persuasive-than-people-in-online-debates?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study published in Nature Human Behaviour that reveals the persuasive capabilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly in online debates. The study indicates that LLMs, such as GPT-4,…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-strands-agents-aws-transform-amazon-bedrock-guardrails-aws-codebuild-and-more-may-19-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025) Feedly Summary: Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community…

  • AWS News Blog: Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-aws-cloud-infrastructure-day-to-learn-cutting-edge-innovations-building-global-cloud-infrastructure/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Join AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn cutting-edge innovations building global cloud infrastructure Feedly Summary: AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day, a free virtual event on May 22, 2025, will showcase AWS’s latest innovations in cloud infrastructure, including advances in compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, and serverless technologies, featuring technical…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Plan To Fix the Web: Letting Every Website Run AI Search for Cheap

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1729259/microsofts-plan-to-fix-the-web-letting-every-website-run-ai-search-for-cheap Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Plan To Fix the Web: Letting Every Website Run AI Search for Cheap Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has introduced NLWeb, an innovative open protocol aimed at enhancing AI-driven search features for websites and applications, allowing for natural language queries to be processed efficiently.…

  • The Register: When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/19/when_llms_get_personal_info/ Source: The Register Title: When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans Feedly Summary: Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt ‘to individual targets.’ Are we having fun yet? Fresh research is indicating that in online debates, LLMs are much more effective than humans at…

  • 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…

  • Slashdot: ‘Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C’

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/18/0257255/rust-is-so-good-you-can-get-paid-20k-to-make-it-as-fast-as-c?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Prossimo project aims to enhance Internet security through the development of the rav1d AV1 decoder using Rust, which focuses on memory safety. While the…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge data access performance with GKE Data Cache

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-data-cache-now-ga-accelerates-stateful-apps/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge data access performance with GKE Data Cache Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of GKE Data Cache, a powerful new solution for Google Kubernetes Engine to accelerate the performance of read-heavy stateful or stateless applications that rely on persistent storage via network…