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  • Hacker News: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta’s midlevel engineers

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    Source URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-replace-engineers-coders-joe-rogan-podcast-2025-1 Source: Hacker News Title: Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta’s midlevel engineers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta plans to automate midlevel software engineering jobs using AI, potentially leading to a significant transformation in the tech labor market. The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agents

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/11/agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agents Feedly Summary: Agents Chip Huyen’s 8,000 word practical guide to building useful LLM-driven workflows that take advantage of tools. Chip starts by providing a definition of “agents" to be used in the piece – in this case it’s LLM systems that plan an approach and then…

  • Slashdot: Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/10/0023257/nvidia-ceo-quantum-computers-wont-be-very-useful-for-another-20-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computers Won’t Be Very Useful for Another 20 Years Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts that quantum computers will not become practically useful for approximately 20 years, causing a notable drop in stock values in the quantum computing sector.…

  • The Register: Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/google_cloud_uk_vp/ Source: The Register Title: Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK Feedly Summary: Maureen Costello hopes to ’empower’ businesses with AI Google has hired Maureen Costello, a Microsoft and Accenture veteran, to the role of Vice President for UK, Ireland, and Sub-Saharan Africa regions as the UK’s Competition Markets…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/7/david-crawshaw/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow Feedly Summary: I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Koebler

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/jason-koebler/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Koebler Feedly Summary: the Meta controlled, AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles going viral right now have been on the platform for well over a year and all of them stopped posting 10 months ago after users almost universally ignored them. […] What is obvious from…

  • Hacker News: Measuring and Understanding LLM Identity Confusion

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10683 Source: Hacker News Title: Measuring and Understanding LLM Identity Confusion Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a research paper focused on “identity confusion” in Large Language Models (LLMs), which has implications for their originality and trustworthiness across various applications. With over a quarter of analyzed LLMs…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Firm Trains Massive AI Model for Just $5.5 Million

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/27/0420235/chinese-firm-trains-massive-ai-model-for-just-55-million Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Firm Trains Massive AI Model for Just $5.5 Million Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The release of DeepSeek V3, a powerful open-source language model developed by a Chinese AI startup, signifies a noteworthy achievement in AI research. This model is trained with significantly lower computational…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/23/jack-clark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a…