Tag: practical implications

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-prices.com

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/llm-prices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-prices.com Feedly Summary: llm-prices.com I’ve been maintaining a simple LLM pricing calculator since October last year. I finally decided to split it out to its own domain name (previously it was hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices), running on Cloudflare Pages. The site runs out of my simonw/llm-prices GitHub repository.…

  • SC Media: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches

    Source URL: https://www.scworld.com/brief/csa-cloud-missteps-fuel-real-world-breaches Source: SC Media Title: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches Feedly Summary: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloud Security Alliance’s newly released report outlines significant cloud security breaches and recommends proactive measures to mitigate similar incidents in the future. It emphasizes the importance of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/phi-4-reasoning/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning Feedly Summary: Microsoft released a new sub-family of models a few days ago: Phi-4 reasoning. They introduced them in this blog post celebrating a year since the release of Phi-3: Today, we are excited to introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning – marking…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft partners with Global Anti-Scam Alliance to fight cybercrime

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/05/microsoft-partners-with-global-anti-scam-alliance-to-fight-cybercrime/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft partners with Global Anti-Scam Alliance to fight cybercrime Feedly Summary: In 2024 alone, scammers drained the global economy of more than $1.03 trillion. Together, Microsoft and the other members of GASA hope to stem these losses going forward. The post Microsoft partners with Global Anti-Scam Alliance…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Schneier on Security: Privacy for Agentic AI

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/privacy-for-agentic-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Privacy for Agentic AI Feedly Summary: Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent idea.…

  • AWS News Blog: Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-q-developer-elevates-the-ide-experience-with-new-agentic-coding-experience/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience Feedly Summary: This new interactive, agentic coding experience for Visual Studio Code allows Q Developer to intelligently take actions on behalf of the developer. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of Amazon Q…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Twelve new MCP servers from Cloudflare you can use today

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/twelve-new-mcp-servers-from-cloudflare/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Twelve new MCP servers from Cloudflare you can use today Feedly Summary: You can now connect to Cloudflare’s first publicly available remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from any MCP client that supports remote servers. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes Cloudflare’s launch of…