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  • Cloud Blog: Discover and assess your database workloads migration to Google Cloud using Migration Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/database-discovery-and-assessment-with-migration-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Discover and assess your database workloads migration to Google Cloud using Migration Center Feedly Summary: Organizations continue to adopt the public cloud to deliver better business and IT outcomes. However, migration — and modernization — is a complex, multifaceted challenge. It involves understanding the current state of infrastructure…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Will Write Complex Laws

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-will-write-complex-laws.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Will Write Complex Laws Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant, to use generative AI in the process of drafting a bill.…

  • The Register: Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/business_value_genai_elusive/ Source: The Register Title: Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom Feedly Summary: The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.9

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/llm-gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.9 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.9 This new release of my llm-gemini plugin adds support for two new experimental models: learnlm-1.5-pro-experimental is “an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases" –…

  • Slashdot: Trump To Announce Up To $500 Billion In AI Infrastructure Investment

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/225229/trump-to-announce-up-to-500-billion-in-ai-infrastructure-investment?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Trump To Announce Up To $500 Billion In AI Infrastructure Investment Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text indicates a significant move in the AI infrastructure landscape with a joint venture named Stargate involving major players like OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. This initiative, catalyzed by efforts…

  • Slashdot: The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (Or Stalkers) Can Use To Geolocate Photos In Seconds

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/20/2132207/the-powerful-ai-tool-cops-or-stalkers-can-use-to-geolocate-photos-in-seconds Source: Slashdot Title: The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (Or Stalkers) Can Use To Geolocate Photos In Seconds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses GeoSpy, an AI tool developed by Graylark Technologies that can accurately predict the location of photos using features within the images. This technology,…

  • Slashdot: AI Benchmarking Organization Criticized For Waiting To Disclose Funding from OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/20/199223/ai-benchmarking-organization-criticized-for-waiting-to-disclose-funding-from-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Benchmarking Organization Criticized For Waiting To Disclose Funding from OpenAI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses allegations of impropriety regarding Epoch AI’s lack of transparency about its funding from OpenAI while developing math benchmarks for AI. This incident raises concerns about transparency in…

  • The Register: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/aws_iceberg_support/ Source: The Register Title: AWS declares it’s Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Feedly Summary: Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: [Microsoft] said it plans in 2025 “to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” For comparison, the James Webb telescope cost $10bn, so Microsoft is spending eight…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI funded FrontierMath Benchmarks and had access to the set

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu2E8wgmbdZbqeWqb/meemi-s-shortform Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI funded FrontierMath Benchmarks and had access to the set Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses concerns regarding non-transparency in the funding and communication between OpenAI and Epoch AI related to the FrontierMath project. It highlights potential privacy and security implications for…