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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

  • Slashdot: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/1613206/google-is-using-youtube-videos-to-train-its-ai-video-generator?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google is leveraging its vast collection of YouTube videos to enhance its AI models, specifically Gemini and the Veo 3 generator, signaling a major development in AI training methodologies. This…

  • Slashdot: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/165237/reasoning-llms-deliver-value-today-so-agi-hype-doesnt-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The commentary by Simon Willison highlights a debate surrounding the effectiveness and applicability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of their limitations and the recent critiques by various…

  • Slashdot: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/1935234/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1 Source: Slashdot Title: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Midjourney has launched its AI video generation model, V1, allowing users to create customizable short videos from images. This move positions the startup as a competitor to established entities in the AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/looker-gartner-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-mq/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms Feedly Summary: We are pleased to share that Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence, for the second consecutive year. We believe this…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/17/gemini-2-5/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family Feedly Summary: After many months of previews, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash have reached general availability with new, memorable model IDs: gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash. They are joined by a new preview model with an unmemorable name: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 is a…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Weighs ‘Nuclear Option’ of Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/209203/openai-weighs-nuclear-option-of-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Weighs ‘Nuclear Option’ of Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses tensions between OpenAI and Microsoft regarding antitrust concerns and contractual disputes over OpenAI’s transition to a public benefit corporation. This situation highlights implications for business partnerships in the AI…