Tag: scientists

  • Hacker News: Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers"

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/nvidia-announces-dgx-desktop-personal-ai-supercomputers/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nvidia announces DGX desktop "personal AI supercomputers" Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia’s unveiling of the DGX Spark and DGX Station supercomputers highlights a significant advancement in AI hardware designed to support developers and researchers in running large AI models locally. These systems enable…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral Small 3.1

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral Small 3.1 Feedly Summary: Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral Small 3 came out in January and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it’s multi-modal (images) and has an increased 128,000 token context length,…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud Composer 3: The next generation of data pipeline orchestration

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cloud-composer-3-for-apache-airflow/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud Composer 3: The next generation of data pipeline orchestration Feedly Summary: As any data team can tell you, managing Apache Airflow is often a complex undertaking, with many hours spent wrestling with reliability, security, and efficient resource scaling. This valuable time could be better spent deriving insights…

  • Slashdot: Google’s AI ‘Co-Scientist’ Solved a 10-Year Superbug Problem in Two Days

    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/17/039241/googles-ai-co-scientist-solved-a-10-year-superbug-problem-in-two-days Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s AI ‘Co-Scientist’ Solved a 10-Year Superbug Problem in Two Days Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has partnered with Imperial College London to leverage its AI tool, built on Gemini 2.0, to enhance biomedical research effectiveness. The AI demonstrated the ability to swiftly generate hypotheses…

  • Wired: Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/ Source: Wired Title: Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models Feedly Summary: A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revised…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/tools-colophon/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions Feedly Summary: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions The /colophon page on my tools site lists all 78 of my tools along with their commit histories, including links to prompting transcripts. I wrote about how I built that. the…

  • Hacker News: Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

    Source URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yg204pvmo Source: Hacker News Title: Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the increasing threat of GPS jamming, particularly affecting aviation, and the response of scientists in the UK to develop a more secure alternative through…

  • Cloud Blog: The AI-driven telecom: How we’re powering transformation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/the-ai-driven-telecom-how-were-powering-transformation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The AI-driven telecom: How we’re powering transformation Feedly Summary: AI is driving unprecedented change and evolution across every industry, and the telecommunications sector is at a particularly interesting crossroads: The industry is standardizing on 5G; data is growing exponentially; and customer expectations are quickly changing. Leading communication service…