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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining Feedly Summary: Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the Enhance Button and…

  • Slashdot: Google Gemini Has 350 Million Monthly Users, Reveals Court Hearing

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/211229/google-gemini-has-350-million-monthly-users-reveals-court-hearing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Gemini Has 350 Million Monthly Users, Reveals Court Hearing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s court disclosure highlights significant growth in its Gemini AI chatbot usage, which surged to 350 million monthly active users as of March 2025, an increase from 9 million daily users…

  • AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-graviton4-based-instances-with-nvme-ssd-storage/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage Feedly Summary: AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Note on 20th April 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/janky-license/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Note on 20th April 2025 Feedly Summary: Now that Llama has very real competition in open weight models (Gemma 3, latest Mistrals, DeepSeek, Qwen) I think their janky license is becoming much more of a liability for them. It’s just limiting enough that it could be the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/llama-eu-ai-act/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act Feedly Summary: I encountered a theory a while ago that one of the reasons Meta insist on using the term “open source” for their Llama models despite the Llama license not actually conforming…

  • CSA: Defending Against SSRF Attacks in Cloud Native Apps

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    Source URL: https://www.sweet.security/blog/defending-against-ssrf-attacks-in-cloud-native-applications Source: CSA Title: Defending Against SSRF Attacks in Cloud Native Apps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the increasing prevalence of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks, particularly in cloud environments, as exemplified by a real incident involving a Fintech customer of Sweet Security. It emphasizes the limitations…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2224205/microsoft-researchers-develop-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a highly efficient 1-bit AI model featuring 2 billion parameters, optimized for CPU use and accessible under an MIT license. It surpasses competitors in…