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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/qwen-image/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Feedly Summary: Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering Not content with releasing six excellent open weights LLMs in July, Qwen are kicking off August with their first ever image generation model. Qwen-Image is a 20 billion parameter MMDiT (Multimodal Diffusion Transformer,…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Going beyond 2FA to address fast-rising, emerging threats

Jul 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-adding-new-layered-protections-to-2fa/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Going beyond 2FA to address fast-rising, emerging threats Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Andy Wen, director, product management, Workspace Security, discusses new efforts we’re making to defend against identity-based cyberattacks.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents…

Cloud Blog: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI

Jul 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/take-an-open-model-from-discovery-to-endpoint-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Developers building with gen AI are increasingly drawn to open models for their power and flexibility. But customizing and deploying them can be a huge challenge. You’re often left wrestling…

The Register: AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ai_copyright_bill_floated/ Source: The Register Title: AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill Feedly Summary: If it passes, the law would redefine the boundaries of fair use A bipartisan pair of US Senators introduced a bill this week that would protect copyrighted content from being used for AI training without…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)

Jul 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/21/coding-with-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) Feedly Summary: Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) Salvatore Sanfilippo describes his current AI-assisted development workflow. He’s all-in on LLMs for code review, exploratory prototyping, pair-design and writing “part of the code under…

The Cloudflare Blog: Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 2)

Jul 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quicksilver-v2-evolution-of-a-globally-distributed-key-value-store-part-2-of-2/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 2) Feedly Summary: This is part two of a story about how we overcame the challenges of making a complex system more scalable. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes the evolution of Cloudflare’s Quicksilver,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)"

Jul 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" Feedly Summary: If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an anwser. I heard about…

Cloud Blog: Strengthening network resilience with the Sol transatlantic cable

Jul 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-sol-transatlantic-cable/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Strengthening network resilience with the Sol transatlantic cable Feedly Summary: Today, we’re announcing Sol, a new transatlantic subsea cable system to connect the U.S., Bermuda, the Azores, and Spain. Sol translates to “sun” in Spanish and Portuguese, a nod to the cable system’s landing points in warmer climates.…

Slashdot: US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns

Jul 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1644224/us-plans-ai-chip-curbs-on-malaysia-thailand-over-china-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Trump administration’s plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from companies like Nvidia to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to prevent semiconductor smuggling into China. This move…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

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