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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/0243223/chinas-government-pushes-real-world-ai-use-to-jumpstart-its-adoption?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Chinese government’s aggressive push for AI adoption across various sectors, including healthcare and law enforcement, utilizing a technology named DeepSeek. This initiative reflects a broader strategy to…

  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • The Register: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI Feedly Summary: Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs.……

  • Shabie’s blog: Let the kaleidoscope turn

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    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/07/31/let-the-kaleidoscope-turn.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Let the kaleidoscope turn Feedly Summary: “Any good classifier knows that in the process of classification, information about variety is lost while information about similarities is gained.” – Joseph Tainter AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the limitations of traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in…

  • The Register: Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/oracle_oci_windows_boot/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix Feedly Summary: Kludge causing production outages Oracle has come under fire for failing to fix a known issue with Windows instances on its cloud infrastructure (OCI).… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights…

  • The Register: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/meta_ai_investments/ Source: The Register Title: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about Feedly Summary: Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge Believe it or not, Meta’s AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 —…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…