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  • The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…

  • Docker: Tool Calling with Local LLMs: A Practical Evaluation

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/local-llm-tool-calling-a-practical-evaluation/ Source: Docker Title: Tool Calling with Local LLMs: A Practical Evaluation Feedly Summary: Which local model should I use for tool calling? When building GenAI and agentic applications, one of the most pressing and persistent questions is: “Which local model should I use for tool calling?”  We kept hearing again and again,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to Fix Your Context

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/how-to-fix-your-context/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to Fix Your Context Feedly Summary: How to Fix Your Context Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so: Context Poisoning: When a…

  • Cloud Blog: How to use Gemini 2.5 to fine-tune video outputs on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-to-fine-tune-video-outputs-using-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to use Gemini 2.5 to fine-tune video outputs on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Recently, we announced Gemini 2.5 is generally available on Vertex AI. As part of this update, tuning capabilities have extended beyond text outputs – now, you can tune image, audio, and video outputs on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Slashdot: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/149238/how-do-olympiad-medalists-judge-llms-in-competitive-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a newly established benchmark demonstrating that large language models (LLMs) are not yet capable of outperforming elite human coders, particularly in problem-solving contexts. The findings indicate limitations in the…

  • Docker: How to Build, Run, and Package AI Models Locally with Docker Model Runner

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/how-to-build-run-and-package-ai-models-locally-with-docker-model-runner/ Source: Docker Title: How to Build, Run, and Package AI Models Locally with Docker Model Runner Feedly Summary: Introduction As a Senior DevOps Engineer and Docker Captain, I’ve helped build AI systems for everything from retail personalization to medical imaging. One truth stands out: AI capabilities are core to modern infrastructure. This…

  • Slashdot: Cisco Updates Networking Products in Bid To Tap AI-Fueled Demand

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/1557211/cisco-updates-networking-products-in-bid-to-tap-ai-fueled-demand?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cisco Updates Networking Products in Bid To Tap AI-Fueled Demand Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cisco is enhancing its networking and security products to better support AI applications, addressing the urgent need for faster data transfer to avoid performance bottlenecks. The introduction of new switches promises…