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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…

  • The Register: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/iran_targeting_european_aerospace/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware Feedly Summary: Instead of job offers, victims get MiniJunk backdoor and MiniBrowse stealer Suspected Iranian government-backed online attackers have expanded their European cyber ops with fake job portals and new malware targeting organizations in the defense, manufacturing, telecommunications,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…

  • Slashdot: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/029249/google-temporarily-pauses-ai-powered-homework-helper-button-in-chrome-over-cheating-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent introduction of a “homework help” button in Google Chrome has sparked significant concern among educators regarding the potential for widespread cheating during online assessments. This development highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Slashdot: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0120220/is-openais-video-generating-tool-sora-scraping-unauthorized-youtube-clips Source: Slashdot Title: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, highlighting its ability to create high-definition video clips by utilizing publicly available and licensed data. Concerns are raised regarding copyright implications, as Sora has…

  • AWS News Blog: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/qwen-models-are-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures…

  • AWS News Blog: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-v3-1-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses. AI Summary and Description: Yes…