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  • The Register: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/ Source: The Register Title: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI: Introducing study mode

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/openai-introducing-study-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI: Introducing study mode Feedly Summary: OpenAI: Introducing study mode New ChatGPT feature, which can be triggered by typing /study or by visiting chatgpt.com/studymode. OpenAI say: Under the hood, study mode is powered by custom system instructions we’ve written in collaboration with teachers, scientists, and pedagogy experts…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 New model update from Qwen, improving on their previous Qwen3-30B-A3B release from late April. In their tweet they said: Smarter, faster, and local deployment-friendly. ✨ Key Enhancements: ✅ Enhanced reasoning, coding, and math skills ✅ Broader multilingual knowledge ✅ Improved long-context understanding (up…

  • Wired: ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-study-mode/ Source: Wired Title: ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s study mode for ChatGPT represents a…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Nears Deal To Raise Funding at $170 Billion Valuation

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/1642226/anthropic-nears-deal-to-raise-funding-at-170-billion-valuation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Nears Deal To Raise Funding at $170 Billion Valuation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic, an AI startup, is in discussions to raise up to $5 billion in new funding that would elevate its valuation to $170 billion. This funding round, led by Iconiq Capital,…

  • Docker: Retiring Docker Content Trust

    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/retiring-docker-content-trust/ Source: Docker Title: Retiring Docker Content Trust Feedly Summary: Docker Content Trust (DCT) was introduced 10 years ago as a way to verify the integrity and publisher of container images using The Update Framework (TUF) and the Notary v1 project. However, the upstream Notary codebase is no longer actively maintained and the…

  • Wired: Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-asked-for-looser-clean-water-act-permitting-trump-wants-to-give-it-to-them/ Source: Wired Title: Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them Feedly Summary: New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services. AI Summary and…

  • Cloud Blog: Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/veo-3-fast-available-for-everyone-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Veo 3 has seen massive global adoption with over 70 million videos created since May, and we’ve seen tremendous momentum with our enterprise customers as well. Since its preview launch on Vertex AI…

  • Slashdot: AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/138232/ai-boom-sparks-fight-over-soaring-power-costs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Boom Sparks Fight Over Soaring Power Costs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the escalating electricity demands driven by AI data center construction in the U.S., highlighting tensions between tech companies and utility providers regarding the financial responsibilities for grid upgrades. This situation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now Feedly Summary: I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday – new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such as…