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  • Docker: Accelerate modernization and cloud migration

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/accelerate-modernization-and-cloud-migration/ Source: Docker Title: Accelerate modernization and cloud migration Feedly Summary: In our recent report, we describe that many enterprises today face a stark reality: despite years of digital transformation efforts, the majority of enterprise workloads—up to 80%—still run on legacy systems. This lag in modernization not only increases operational costs and security…

  • The Register: AI industry’s size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/ai_size_obsession/ Source: The Register Title: AI industry’s size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues Feedly Summary: Huge models are error-prone and expensive Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/gemini-25-flash-lite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available The last remaining member of the Gemini 2.5 trio joins Pro and Flash in General Availability today. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest of the 2.5 family,…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing a new monitoring library to optimize TPU performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-monitoring-library-to-optimize-google-cloud-tpu-resources/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing a new monitoring library to optimize TPU performance Feedly Summary: For more than a decade, TPUs have powered Google’s most demanding AI training and serving workloads. And there is strong demand from customers for Cloud TPUs as well. When running advanced AI workloads, you need to be…

  • The Register: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x Feedly Summary: New spin on speculative decoding works with any model – now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-nova-customization-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI Feedly Summary: AWS now enables extensive customization of Amazon Nova foundation models through SageMaker AI with techniques including continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, reinforcement learning from human feedback and model distillation to better address domain-specific requirements across…

  • The Register: HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/seagate_hamr_drives/ Source: The Register Title: HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast Feedly Summary: Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn’t going anywhere Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper options for datacenter operators…

  • Slashdot: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/1942209/chinas-moonshot-launches-free-ai-model-kimi-k2-that-outperforms-gpt-4-in-key-benchmarks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source language model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI, which surpasses GPT-4 in key performance benchmarks. Its unique…

  • The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…

  • The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…