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  • Slashdot: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/1925212/is-the-altruistic-openai-gone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is the Altruistic OpenAI Gone? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines concerns regarding OpenAI’s shifting priorities under CEO Sam Altman, highlighting internal struggles over the management of artificial intelligence safety and governance. It raises critical questions about the implications of AI development’s commercialization and…

  • Slashdot: MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/213210/mit-asks-arxiv-to-take-down-preprint-paper-on-ai-and-scientific-discovery?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: MIT Asks arXiv To Take Down Preprint Paper On AI and Scientific Discovery Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: MIT’s request to withdraw a controversial preprint paper on AI and scientific discovery raises significant concerns about research integrity, data validity, and the implications of AI in academia.…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2052243/openai-launches-codex-an-ai-coding-agent-in-chatgpt?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s introduction of Codex marks a significant advancement in AI-driven software engineering capabilities, allowing for autonomous code writing, bug fixing, and testing within a cloud-based environment. This tool, powered by the codex-1…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • Cloud Blog: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-enhancements-for-the-developer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger Feedly Summary: Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous…

  • OpenAI : Introducing Codex

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex Source: OpenAI Title: Introducing Codex Feedly Summary: Introducing Codex: a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered by codex-1. With Codex, developers can simultaneously deploy multiple agents to independently handle coding tasks such as writing features, answering questions about your codebase, fixing bugs, and proposing pull…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-ci-cd-pipelines-with-the-new-aws-codebuild-docker-server-capability/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability Feedly Summary: AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demonstrated by a 98% reduction in build…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/openai-on-twitter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter Feedly Summary: By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today. GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/read-doras-latest-research-on-software-excellence/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock software delivery excellence and quality with Gemini Code Assist agents Feedly Summary: According to DORA’s latest research – the Impact of Generative AI in Software Development report – AI tools are making software developers feel more productive, focused, and satisfied. They’re even writing better code and documentation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Luke Kanies

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/luke-kanies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Luke Kanies Feedly Summary: I did find one area where LLMs absolutely excel, and I’d never want to be without them: AIs can find your syntax error 100x faster than you can. They’ve been a useful tool in multiple areas, to my surprise. But this is…