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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

  • The Register: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/edb_enhances_analytics_in_postgresql/ Source: The Register Title: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons Feedly Summary: DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms PostgreSQL exponent EDB has enhanced its new data platform, claiming this will help bring transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into a…

  • The Register: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/idc_switch_wlan_sales/ Source: The Register Title: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Feedly Summary: Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike The long-dormant market for datacenter network switches is booming thanks to AI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant…

  • The Register: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/australia_age_assurance_trial_findings/ Source: The Register Title: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Feedly Summary: Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Australia’s trial of age assurance technology has found it’s up to the task of preventing children under 16 years of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

  • Cloud Blog: Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/data-resilience-eons-approach–google-cloud-best-practices/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup Feedly Summary: Cloud backups were once considered as little more than an insurance policy. Now, your backups should do more! They should be autonomous, cost-efficient, and analytics-ready by default. That’s why Eon built a platform purposefully aligned…

  • Enterprise AI Trends: Sierra AI: A Competitive Memo on the Bellwether Agent Startup

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    Source URL: https://nextword.substack.com/p/sierra-ai-a-competitive-memo-on-the Source: Enterprise AI Trends Title: Sierra AI: A Competitive Memo on the Bellwether Agent Startup Feedly Summary: Thoughts on Sierra AI and risk factors for application layer AI startups AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Sierra, launched in early 2024 by high-profile founders, represents a significant case study in the field of…