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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…

  • Wired: AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-social-media-users-are-not-always-a-totally-dumb-idea/ Source: Wired Title: AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea Feedly Summary: Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s plan to introduce a significant number of artificial…

  • The Register: Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/google_cloud_uk_vp/ Source: The Register Title: Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK Feedly Summary: Maureen Costello hopes to ’empower’ businesses with AI Google has hired Maureen Costello, a Microsoft and Accenture veteran, to the role of Vice President for UK, Ireland, and Sub-Saharan Africa regions as the UK’s Competition Markets…

  • The Register: Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/amd_ai_nvidia/ Source: The Register Title: Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business Feedly Summary: Plus: A peek at Nvidia’s latest hype CES AMD unleashed a flood of CPUs at the annual CES super-conference this week in Las Vegas – chips that span the…

  • Slashdot: Man Used ChatGPT To Plan Las Vegas Cybertruck Blast

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/08/0019223/man-used-chatgpt-to-plan-las-vegas-cybertruck-blast?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Man Used ChatGPT To Plan Las Vegas Cybertruck Blast Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving a man who used ChatGPT to plan an explosive act raises significant security concerns regarding the misuse of artificial intelligence. This case exemplifies the potential dangers of generative AI…

  • Krebs on Security: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prolific-voice-phishing-crew/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Feedly Summary: Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations…

  • Hacker News: OmniAI (YC W24) Hiring Engineers to Build Open Source Document Extraction

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    Source URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai/jobs/LG5jeP2-full-stack-engineer Source: Hacker News Title: OmniAI (YC W24) Hiring Engineers to Build Open Source Document Extraction Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the engineering roles at Omni, focused on building advanced OCR and document extraction technologies, highlighting the challenges of working with LLMs and integrating various tech…

  • Wired: License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/license-plate-reader-live-video-data-exposed/ Source: Wired Title: License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data Feedly Summary: Misconfigured license plate recognition systems reveal the livestreams of individual cameras and the wealth of data they collect about every vehicle that passes them by. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/7/david-crawshaw/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when…

  • Cloud Blog: Supervised Fine Tuning for Gemini: A best practices guide

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/master-gemini-sft/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supervised Fine Tuning for Gemini: A best practices guide Feedly Summary: Foundation models such as Gemini have revolutionized how we work, but sometimes they need guidance to excel at specific business tasks. Perhaps their answers are too long, or their summaries miss the mark. That’s where supervised fine-tuning…