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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…

  • Slashdot: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel ‘Fake’

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/0048216/sam-altman-says-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel ‘Fake’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Sam Altman’s observations on the prevalence of bots and AI-generated content on social media platforms, particularly regarding the OpenAI Codex. Altman expresses concern about the authenticity of social…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic status: Model output quality

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/anthropic-model-output-quality/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic status: Model output quality Feedly Summary: Anthropic status: Model output quality Anthropic previously reported model serving bugs that affected Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 for 56.5 hours. They’ve now fixed additional bugs affecting “a small percentage" of Sonnet 4 requests for almost a month, plus a…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/07/2149212/microsofts-cloud-services-disrupted-by-red-sea-cable-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the recent disruption of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services due to undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, impacting internet traffic in the Middle East and parts of Asia. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? Feedly Summary: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? More from Mike Caulfield (see also the SIFT method). He starts with a fantastic example of Google’s AI mode…

  • The Register: Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Feedly Summary: Researchers also found that more than half of citations didn’t rank in top 100 for term Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the…

  • OpenAI : Why language models hallucinate

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate Source: OpenAI Title: Why language models hallucinate Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s research on the phenomenon of hallucination in language models, offering insights into…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/troubleshoot-apache-spark-on-dataproc-with-gemini-cloud-assist-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Feedly Summary: Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging…

  • Cloud Blog: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/manufacturing/tata-steel-enhances-equipment-and-operations-monitoring-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tata Steel enhances equipment and operations monitoring with the Manufacturing Data Engine Feedly Summary: Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with an annual crude steel capacity exceeding 35 millions tons. With such a large and global output, we needed a way to improve asset…