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  • Slashdot: Meta Is Creating a New AI Lab To Pursue ‘Superintelligence’

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/0738216/meta-is-creating-a-new-ai-lab-to-pursue-superintelligence?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Is Creating a New AI Lab To Pursue ‘Superintelligence’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Meta is launching a new AI research lab focused on achieving “superintelligence,” led by industry figures including Alexandr Wang from Scale AI, as part of its effort to enhance competitive positioning…

  • Slashdot: Apple Lets Developers Tap Into Its Offline AI Models

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1859253/apple-lets-developers-tap-into-its-offline-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Lets Developers Tap Into Its Offline AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple is set to introduce the Foundation Models framework, enabling developers to leverage its AI models on devices while ensuring user privacy and reducing cloud dependency. This innovation allows for personalized experiences…

  • Slashdot: China Shuts Down AI Tools During Nationwide College Exams

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1849202/china-shuts-down-ai-tools-during-nationwide-college-exams?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China Shuts Down AI Tools During Nationwide College Exams Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Major Chinese AI companies are disabling specific chatbot features during the gaokao college entrance exams to prevent cheating, highlighting a proactive approach to academic integrity. This shift demonstrates the intersection of AI…

  • Slashdot: Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1656213/major-us-grocery-distributor-warns-of-disruption-after-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** United Natural Foods (UNFI) experienced a cyberattack that disrupted its operations, particularly impacting its ability to fulfill customer orders. The breach prompted the company to implement shutdowns of certain IT systems, leading…

  • Slashdot: Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1421259/meta-in-talks-for-scale-ai-investment-that-could-top-10-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s potential multibillion-dollar investment in the AI startup Scale AI highlights the growing importance of data labeling services in the development of machine-learning models, especially as generative AI gains…

  • Slashdot: Apple Researchers Challenge AI Reasoning Claims With Controlled Puzzle Tests

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1151210/apple-researchers-challenge-ai-reasoning-claims-with-controlled-puzzle-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Researchers Challenge AI Reasoning Claims With Controlled Puzzle Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple researchers have discovered that advanced reasoning AI models, including OpenAI’s o3-mini and Gemini, exhibit a performance collapse at higher complexity levels in puzzle-solving tasks. This finding challenges existing assumptions about…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/m4-vms-are-designed-for-memory-intensive-workloads-like-sap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the memory-optimized machine series: Compute Engine M4, our most performant memory-optimized VM with under 6TB of memory.  The M4 family is designed for workloads like SAP…

  • Cloud Blog: Simplify your streaming pipelines with new Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/pub-sub-single-message-transforms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Simplify your streaming pipelines with new Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms Feedly Summary: Today, we’re introducing Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms (SMTs) to make it easy to perform simple data transformations right within Pub/Sub itself. This comes at a time when businesses are increasingly reliant on streaming data to derive…

  • Schneier on Security: New Way to Track Covertly Android Users

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-way-to-track-covertly-android-users.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: New Way to Track Covertly Android Users Feedly Summary: Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught. The details are interesting, and worth reading in detail: >Tracking…