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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Slashdot: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2138230/walmart-prepares-for-a-future-where-ai-shops-for-consumers Source: Slashdot Title: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Walmart’s advancements in developing AI agents for autonomous shopping, aiming to lead in agentic commerce alongside competitors like Visa and PayPal. It highlights a significant shift in consumer…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

  • The Register: Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/ivanti_patches_two_zerodays_and/ Source: The Register Title: Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers Feedly Summary: Vendor says vulns are linked with 2 mystery open source libraries integrated into EPMM product Australia’s intelligence agency is warning organizations about several new Ivanti zero-days chained for remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The…

  • Cloud Blog: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/use-google-adk-and-mcp-with-an-external-server/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A guide to Google ADK and MCP integration with an external server Feedly Summary: For AI-powered agents to perform useful, real-world tasks, they need to reliably access tools and up-to-the-minute information that lives outside the base model. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is designed to address this, providing…