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  • Slashdot: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/09/070211/will-an-ai-makeover-help-mcdonalds Source: Slashdot Title: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: McDonald’s is leveraging AI and edge computing to enhance operations across its 43,000 restaurants by implementing technologies like AI-enabled drive-throughs and internet-connected kitchen equipment. Partnering with Google Cloud, McDonald’s aims to utilize local computing power…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…

  • Slashdot: Axiom Space and Red Hat Will Bring Edge Computing to the International Space Station

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/205225/axiom-space-and-red-hat-will-bring-edge-computing-to-the-international-space-station?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Axiom Space and Red Hat Will Bring Edge Computing to the International Space Station Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Axiom Space and Red Hat are launching a prototype data center, AxDCU-1, to the ISS, aimed at leveraging edge computing for improved data processing capabilities in space.…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX

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    Source URL: https://www.typeleap.com/ Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces TypeLeap UI/UX, a dynamic interface concept that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to interpret user intent in real-time as they type. This innovative approach aims to transform user…

  • Hacker News: Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01710 Source: Hacker News Title: Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Spark-TTS, an innovative LLM-based text-to-speech model that contributes to advancements in zero-shot TTS synthesis. Its efficient design allows for customizable voice generation through a unique token representation and a…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Reportedly Develops LLM Series That Can Rival OpenAI, Anthropic Models

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/0018225/microsoft-reportedly-develops-llm-series-that-can-rival-openai-anthropic-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Reportedly Develops LLM Series That Can Rival OpenAI, Anthropic Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is working on a new series of large language models (LLMs) called MAI, which aims to compete with existing models from OpenAI and Anthropic. This development may leverage Microsoft’s…

  • Slashdot: Signal President Calls Out Agentic AI As Having ‘Profound’ Security and Privacy Issues

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/2310205/signal-president-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal President Calls Out Agentic AI As Having ‘Profound’ Security and Privacy Issues Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, cautioned at SXSW about the serious privacy and security threats posed by agentic AI, which requires extensive access to personal user data and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/gemini-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Feedly Summary: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Gemini just released their new text embedding model, with the snappy name gemini-embedding-exp-03-07. It supports 8,000 input tokens – up from 3,000 – and outputs vectors that are a lot larger…

  • The Register: Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/axiom_space_and_red_hat/ Source: The Register Title: Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit Feedly Summary: To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while Axiom Space plans to send a shoebox-sized node running Red Hat Device Edge to the International Space Station (ISS).… AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: Mistral Adds a New API That Turns Any PDF Document Into an AI-Ready Markdown File

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/0426243/mistral-adds-a-new-api-that-turns-any-pdf-document-into-an-ai-ready-markdown-file?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Mistral Adds a New API That Turns Any PDF Document Into an AI-Ready Markdown File Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mistral has introduced a multimodal OCR API that effectively converts complex PDF documents into AI-friendly Markdown files, enhancing the integration of visual and textual data for…