Tag: market

  • The Register: Ex-NSA grandee says Trump’s staff cuts will ‘devastate’ America’s cybersecurity

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/us_government_job_cuts_nsa/ Source: The Register Title: Ex-NSA grandee says Trump’s staff cuts will ‘devastate’ America’s cybersecurity Feedly Summary: Would ‘destroy a pipeline of top talent essential for hunting’ Chinese spies in US networks, Congress told Video Looming staffing cuts to America’s security and intelligence agencies, if carried out, would “have a devastating effect on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/qwq-32b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning New Apache 2 licensed reasoning model from Qwen: We are excited to introduce QwQ-32B, a model with 32 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters…

  • The Register: Brits end probe into Microsoft’s $13B bankrolling of OpenAI

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/cma_microsoft_openai/ Source: The Register Title: Brits end probe into Microsoft’s $13B bankrolling of OpenAI Feedly Summary: Redmond doesn’t have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops The UK’s investigation into competition concerns arising from Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI has reached a conclusion, albeit an anticlimactic one…

  • Cloud Blog: Forrester study reveals significant benefits and cost savings with Spanner

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/forrester-tei-study-on-spanner-shows-benefits-and-cost-savings/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Forrester study reveals significant benefits and cost savings with Spanner Feedly Summary: Is your legacy database sticking you with rising costs, frustrating downtime, and scalability challenges? For organizations that strive for top performance and agility, legacy database systems can become significant roadblocks to innovation.  But there’s good news.…

  • Hacker News: Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring M4 Max

    Source URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-new-mac-studio-the-most-powerful-mac-ever/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring M4 Max Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple has unveiled the new Mac Studio, featuring the M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, designed to deliver exceptional performance, particularly in AI applications such as…

  • The Register: Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/microsoft_teases_sales_agent_automation/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365 Feedly Summary: Redmond says you could ask one for a ‘list of deals … at risk of falling through’ Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and…

  • The Register: Worry not. China’s on the line saying AGI still a long way off

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/boffins_from_china_calculate_agi/ Source: The Register Title: Worry not. China’s on the line saying AGI still a long way off Feedly Summary: Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game, better known as the Turing Test, to identify…