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  • AWS News Blog: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/best-performance-and-fastest-memory-with-the-new-amazon-ec2-r8i-and-r8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations. AI Summary…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/gpt-oss-with-llama-cpp/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp Feedly Summary: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp Really useful official guide to running the OpenAI gpt-oss models using llama-server from llama.cpp – which provides an OpenAI-compatible localhost API and a neat web interface for interacting with the models. TLDR version…

  • Cloud Blog: An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/kakaos-journey-with-jax-and-cloud-tpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs Feedly Summary: When your messaging platform serves 49 million people – 93% of South Korea’s population – every technical decision carries enormous weight. The engineering team at Kakao faced exactly this challenge when their existing…

  • The Register: More customers asking for Google’s Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/critical_thinking_and_sovereign_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: More customers asking for Google’s Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss Feedly Summary: Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec Interview Google’s President of Customer Experience, Hayete Gallot, offered some words of comfort to developers who are looking nervously at the…

  • Slashdot: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple

    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/0345252/us-spy-chief-gabbard-says-uk-agreed-to-drop-backdoor-mandate-for-apple?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent development in the UK’s approach to encryption and security, specifically regarding Apple and its iCloud data. The intervention by the Trump administration highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Google Gemini URL Context

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/18/google-gemini-url-context/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Google Gemini URL Context Feedly Summary: Google Gemini URL Context New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a…

  • Shabie’s blog: Agents are search over action space

    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/08/18/agents-are-search-over-action-space.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Agents are search over action space Feedly Summary: It’s no secret that today’s LLM-based agents are unreliable. This makes them a gamble for most critical tasks, so where can they be safely applied? The answer lies in finding asymmetry: we should use them in domains where the downside…

  • The Register: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/microsoft_adds_copilot_ai_formulas/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells Feedly Summary: Meet the new COPILOT function Microsoft, in its ongoing effort to AI-ify every product it has, is now adding it right into the cells of Excel.  Available on Monday to beta users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new…