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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/workslop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock Feedly Summary: We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task. Here’s how this happens. As AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Four new releases from Qwen

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Four new releases from Qwen Feedly Summary: It’s been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 – official FP8 quantized versions of their Qwen3-Next models.…

  • Slashdot: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/0313234/reddit-wants-deeper-integration-with-google-in-exchange-for-licensed-ai-training-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Reddit’s ongoing negotiations with Google for a new deal that involves deeper integration with AI products and a dynamic pricing structure for licensing its data.…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing the DORA AI Capabilities Model: 7 keys to succeeding in AI-assisted software development

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-doras-inaugural-ai-capabilities-model/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing the DORA AI Capabilities Model: 7 keys to succeeding in AI-assisted software development Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming software development. But simply adopting AI tools isn’t a guarantee of success. Across the industry, tech leaders and developers are asking the same critical questions: How do…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Locally AI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/21/locally-ai/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Locally AI Feedly Summary: Locally AI Handy new iOS app by Adrien Grondin for running local LLMs on your phone. It just added support for the new iOS 26 Apple Foundation model, so you can install this app and instantly start a conversation with that model without…

  • 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: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2119232/cyberattack-delays-flights-at-several-of-europes-major-airports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a cyberattack that disrupted check-in and boarding systems across several major European airports, exposing vulnerabilities in these security systems. Despite limited impact on travelers, the incident highlights the ongoing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…