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  • Cloud Blog: Boost your Search and RAG agents with Vertex AI’s new state-of-the-art Ranking API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/launching-our-new-state-of-the-art-vertex-ai-ranking-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Boost your Search and RAG agents with Vertex AI’s new state-of-the-art Ranking API Feedly Summary: The AI era has supercharged expectations: users now issue more complex queries and demand pinpoint results, meaning there’s an 82% chance of losing a customer if they can’t quickly find what they need.…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How governments can use AI to improve threat detection and reduce cost

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-how-governments-can-use-AI-improve-threat-detection-reduce-cost/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How governments can use AI to improve threat detection and reduce cost Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Enrique Alvarez, public sector advisor, Office of the CISO, explores how government agencies can use AI to improve threat detection…

  • Cloud Blog: Google I/O 2025: Innovation that drives mission impact

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-io-2025-innovation-that-drives-mission-impact/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google I/O 2025: Innovation that drives mission impact Feedly Summary: At Google I/O 2025 we unveiled a suite of groundbreaking AI advancements, signaling a new frontier in how technology will empower organizations everywhere. The new era of innovation is here. Over the two day event, Google showcased everything…

  • Cloud Blog: BigLake evolved: Build open, high-performance, enterprise Iceberg-native lakehouses

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/enhancing-biglake-for-iceberg-lakehouses/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigLake evolved: Build open, high-performance, enterprise Iceberg-native lakehouses Feedly Summary: Data management is changing. Enterprises need flexible, open, and interoperable architectures that allow multiple engines to operate on a single copy of data. Apache Iceberg has emerged as the leading open table format, but in real-world deployments, customers…

  • Slashdot: Researchers Warn Against Treating AI Outputs as Human-Like Reasoning

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/1411236/researchers-warn-against-treating-ai-outputs-as-human-like-reasoning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Warn Against Treating AI Outputs as Human-Like Reasoning Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers at Arizona State University are challenging the misconception of AI language models’ intermediate outputs as “reasoning” or “thinking.” They argue that this anthropomorphization can mislead users about AI’s actual functioning, highlighting…

  • Hamel’s Blog: LLM Eval FAQ

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    Source URL: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq/ Source: Hamel’s Blog Title: LLM Eval FAQ Feedly Summary: Our Course On AI Evals I’m teaching a course on AI Evals with Shreya Shankar. Here are some of the most common questions we’ve been asked. We’ll be updating this list frequently. Q: Is RAG dead? Question: Should I avoid using RAG for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-tools-exa

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-tools-exa/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-tools-exa Feedly Summary: llm-tools-exa When I shipped LLM 0.26 yesterday one of the things I was most excited about was seeing what new tool plugins people would build for it. Dan Turkel’s llm-tools-exa is one of the first. It adds web search to LLM using Exa (previously),…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…