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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

  • Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…

  • CSA: Demystifying Integrations: APIs, Connectors, & Agents

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/demystifying-integrations-apis-connectors-collectors-and-agents Source: CSA Title: Demystifying Integrations: APIs, Connectors, & Agents Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the complexities surrounding the terms and functionalities associated with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) components, such as APIs, connectors, collectors, and agents. It highlights the importance of understanding these components to make…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • CSA: Unlocking the Distillation of AI & Threat Intelligence

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    Source URL: https://koat.ai/unlocking-the-distillation-of-ai-and-threat-intelligence-models/ Source: CSA Title: Unlocking the Distillation of AI & Threat Intelligence Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses model distillation, a technique in AI that involves training smaller models to replicate the performance of larger models. It emphasizes model distillation’s significance in cybersecurity, particularly in threat intelligence, by…

  • Cloud Blog: Kubernetes, your AI superpower: How Google Kubernetes Engine powers AI innovation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-gke-powers-ai-innovation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Kubernetes, your AI superpower: How Google Kubernetes Engine powers AI innovation Feedly Summary: The age of AI is now. In fact, the global AI infrastructure market is on track to increase to more than $200 billion by 2028.  However, working with massive data, intricate models, and relentless iterations…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerating-ci-with-aws-codebuild-parallel-test-execution-now-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available Feedly Summary: Speed up build times on CodeBuild with test splitting across multiple parallel build environments. Read how test splitting with CodeBuild works and how to get started. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses…