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  • Tomasz Tunguz: OpenAI Calls Codex a Senior Engineer

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/openai-calls-codex-a-senior-engineer/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: OpenAI Calls Codex a Senior Engineer Feedly Summary: For two years, Silicon Valley repeated the same mantra : AI agents are junior engineers. They need supervision. They handle routine tasks but struggle with complex problems. Then Thibault, OpenAI’s Codex team lead, delivered a line that broke the pattern…

  • Wired: Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wrong/ Source: Wired Title: Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he’s changed his attitude to AGI. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s CEO addressing misconceptions surrounding the company’s large language model…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/video-models-are-zero-shot-learners-and-reasoners/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Feedly Summary: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model – and generative video models in general – serve a similar role in the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • The Register: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/deepseek_cost_train/ Source: The Register Title: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000 Feedly Summary: Training costs detailed in R1 training report don’t include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation Chinese AI darling DeepSeek’s now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Announces $30 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, Operations In UK

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/2032219/microsoft-announces-30-billion-investment-in-ai-infrastructure-operations-in-uk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Announces $30 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, Operations In UK Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, primarily to enhance AI infrastructure, which includes constructing a significant supercomputer. This investment demonstrates a shift in the regulatory…

  • Slashdot: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel ‘Fake’

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/0048216/sam-altman-says-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel ‘Fake’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Sam Altman’s observations on the prevalence of bots and AI-generated content on social media platforms, particularly regarding the OpenAI Codex. Altman expresses concern about the authenticity of social…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic status: Model output quality

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/anthropic-model-output-quality/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic status: Model output quality Feedly Summary: Anthropic status: Model output quality Anthropic previously reported model serving bugs that affected Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 for 56.5 hours. They’ve now fixed additional bugs affecting “a small percentage" of Sonnet 4 requests for almost a month, plus a…