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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/21/the-think-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations Feedly Summary: The “think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations Fascinating new prompt engineering trick from Anthropic. They use their standard tool calling mechanism to define a…

  • Cloud Blog: Using RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking for AI on Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/rdma-rocev2-for-ai-workloads-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Using RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking for AI on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: All workloads are not the same. This is especially the case for AI, ML, and scientific workloads. In this blog we show how Google Cloud makes the RDMA over converged ethernet version 2 (RoCE v2)…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud Composer 3: The next generation of data pipeline orchestration

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cloud-composer-3-for-apache-airflow/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud Composer 3: The next generation of data pipeline orchestration Feedly Summary: As any data team can tell you, managing Apache Airflow is often a complex undertaking, with many hours spent wrestling with reliability, security, and efficient resource scaling. This valuable time could be better spent deriving insights…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerate AI/ML workloads using Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/cloud-storage-hierarchical-namespace-improves-aiml-checkpointing/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate AI/ML workloads using Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace Feedly Summary: As AI and machine learning (ML) workloads continue to grow, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve to meet their unique demands. Here on the Google Cloud Storage team, we’re committed to providing AI/ML practitioners with tools to optimize…

  • Schneier on Security: Improvements in Brute Force Attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/improvements-in-brute-force-attacks.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Improvements in Brute Force Attacks Feedly Summary: New paper: “GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA: Brute Force Cryptanalysis of KASUMI, SPECK, and TEA3.” Abstract: Key lengths in symmetric cryptography are determined with respect to the brute force attacks with current technology. While…

  • Hacker News: Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05179 Source: Hacker News Title: Sketch-of-Thought: Efficient LLM Reasoning Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses a novel prompting framework called Sketch-of-Thought (SoT) aimed at optimizing large language models (LLMs) by minimizing token usage while maintaining or improving reasoning accuracy. This innovation is particularly relevant for AI…

  • Hacker News: AutoHete: An Automatic and Efficient Heterogeneous Training System for LLMs

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01890 Source: Hacker News Title: AutoHete: An Automatic and Efficient Heterogeneous Training System for LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper introduces AutoHete, a groundbreaking training system designed for heterogeneous environments that significantly enhances the training efficiency of large language models (LLMs). It addresses GPU memory limitations and…

  • Cloud Blog: 10 months to innovation: Definity’s leap to data agility with BigQuery and Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/definitys-leap-to-data-agility-with-bigquery-and-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 10 months to innovation: Definity’s leap to data agility with BigQuery and Vertex AI Feedly Summary: At Definity, a leading Canadian P&C insurer with a history spanning over 150 years, we have a long tradition of innovating to help our customers and communities adapt and thrive. To stay…

  • Slashdot: Google’s New Robot AI Can Fold Delicate Origami, Close Zipper Bags

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/12/2018222/googles-new-robot-ai-can-fold-delicate-origami-close-zipper-bags?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s New Robot AI Can Fold Delicate Origami, Close Zipper Bags Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google DeepMind has introduced two innovative AI models, Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, aimed at enhancing robot interaction with the physical world. These advancements build on the Gemini 2.0 large…