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  • Slashdot: A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/1422204/a-godfather-of-ai-remains-concerned-as-ever-about-human-extinction?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Yoshua Bengio’s call for a pause in AI model development to prioritize safety standards, emphasizing the significant risks posed by advanced AI. Despite major investments in AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/video-models-are-zero-shot-learners-and-reasoners/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Feedly Summary: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model – and generative video models in general – serve a similar role in the…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/un-artificial-intelligence.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N. Feedly Summary: The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on the technology’s risks and rewards. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement by the…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Says GPT-5 Stacks Up To Humans in a Wide Range of Jobs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/25/176219/openai-says-gpt-5-stacks-up-to-humans-in-a-wide-range-of-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Says GPT-5 Stacks Up To Humans in a Wide Range of Jobs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has introduced GDPval, a new benchmark to assess the performance of its AI models against that of human professionals across various industries. The benchmark indicates that models…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-sql-deep-dive/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine Feedly Summary: R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine. AI Summary and…

  • Cloud Blog: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/global-harms-restrictive-cloud-licensing-one-year-later/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later Feedly Summary: A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s…

  • ISC2 Think Tank: Safeguarding Data in an AI-Powered World

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    Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank?commid=653430 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: Safeguarding Data in an AI-Powered World Feedly Summary: AI is reshaping how organizations create, analyze, and interact with data—but with great power comes great responsibility. As new technologies rapidly evolve, they introduce transformative capabilities across industries—while also raising complex data security challenges. Join sponsor, Proofpoint and host,…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter Feedly Summary: Cloudflare launched 15 years ago. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet. But we’ve also been thinking a lot about what’s changed on the Internet. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • AWS News Blog: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-v3-1-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses. AI Summary and Description: Yes…