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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI’s Exclusive Cloud Provider

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0522224/microsoft-loses-status-as-openais-exclusive-cloud-provider Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI’s Exclusive Cloud Provider Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s evolving partnership with OpenAI, transitioning from an exclusive provider to a collaborative role with a “right of first refusal,” reflects shifts in AI infrastructure investments, particularly with the Stargate Project involving major…

  • The Register: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/openai_stargate_ai_datacenter_company/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI and pals form biz to spend $500B on its own AI infrastructure Feedly Summary: With help from SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, Stargate Project plans to outspend Microsoft this year OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…

  • Schneier on Security: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/biden-signs-new-cybersecurity-order.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order Feedly Summary: President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details: The core of the executive order is an array of mandates…

  • Hacker News: Bambu Connect’s Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted

    Source URL: https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authentication-x-509-certificate-and-private-key-extracted/ Source: Hacker News Title: Bambu Connect’s Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant security vulnerability discovered in Bambu Lab’s software, particularly regarding their X1-series 3D printers. The extraction of sensitive cryptographic credentials threatens the integrity of the secure…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-talk-cyber-in-business-terms-to-win-allies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Talk cyber in business terms to win allies Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2025. We’re starting off the year at the top with boards of directors, and how talking about cybersecurity in business terms can help us better convey…

  • The Register: GM parks claims that driver location data was shared to insurers, pushed up premiums

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/gm_settles_ftc_charges/ Source: The Register Title: GM parks claims that driver location data was shared to insurers, pushed up premiums Feedly Summary: We’ll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC “to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart…

  • Enterprise AI Trends: Why AI Agents Feel Scammy, Despite the Impressive Demos

    Source URL: https://nextword.substack.com/p/why-ai-agents-feel-useless-despite Source: Enterprise AI Trends Title: Why AI Agents Feel Scammy, Despite the Impressive Demos Feedly Summary: Hint: AI Agents Are Sometimes Not the Right Tool for the Job AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving role of AI agents in software engineering, emphasizing the transition from human-AI collaboration…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting gwern

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting gwern Feedly Summary: […] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session…

  • Cloud Blog: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/a3-ultra-with-nvidia-h200-gpus-are-ga-on-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: The last few weeks of 2024 were exhilarating as we worked to bring you multiple advancements in AI infrastructure, including the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU, A3 Ultra VMs powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs, support for up…