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  • Slashdot: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/19/1027251/ai-crawlers-havent-learned-to-play-nice-with-websites?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Crawlers Haven’t Learned To Play Nice With Websites Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: SourceHut is experiencing service disruptions due to aggressive web crawling by AI companies collecting data for training large language models (LLMs). They have implemented mitigations, including blocking certain cloud providers due to…

  • Hacker News: Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz

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    Source URL: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-agreement-acquire-wiz/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has announced the acquisition of Wiz, Inc., a cloud security platform, for $32 billion. This move aims to enhance cloud security and multicloud capabilities for customers, leveraging AI advancements. The partnership is…

  • Hacker News: Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window

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    Source URL: https://cohere.com/blog/command-a Source: Hacker News Title: Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text introduces Command A, a powerful generative AI model designed to meet the performance and security needs of enterprises. It emphasizes the model’s efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and multi-language capabilities…

  • The Register: Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market’s smaller players

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/cma_overlooks_factors_hurting_small/ Source: The Register Title: Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market’s smaller players Feedly Summary: Global giants shouldn’t be allowed to make ‘committed spend’ public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match Britain’s competition regulator is facing biting criticism from local cloud providers for declining to act…

  • Scott Logic: There is more than one way to do GenAI

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/02/20/there-is-more-than-one-way-to-do-genai.html Source: Scott Logic Title: There is more than one way to do GenAI Feedly Summary: AI doesn’t have to be brute forced requiring massive data centres. Europe isn’t necessarily behind in AI arms race. In fact, the UK and Europe’s constraints and focus on more than just economic return and speculation might…

  • The Register: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/datacenter_emissions_not_accurate/ Source: The Register Title: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Feedly Summary: Amazon doesn’t break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren’t doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who…

  • The Register: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/openai_stargate_ai_datacenter_company/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure Feedly Summary: With help from SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, Stargate Project plans to outspend Microsoft this year OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure…

  • The Register: Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/microsoft_joins_cispe/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Feedly Summary: From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it Exclusive Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European…