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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Medium is the new large

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/medium-is-the-new-large/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Medium is the new large Feedly Summary: Medium is the new large New model release from Mistral – this time closed source/proprietary. Mistral Medium claims strong benchmark scores similar to GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but is priced at $0.40/million input and $2/million output – about the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Arvind Narayanan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/arvind-narayanan/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Arvind Narayanan Feedly Summary: [On using generative AI for work despite the risk of errors:] AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself. For example, if you’re using it to find a…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/reliable-ai-with-vertex-ai-prediction-dedicated-endpoints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints Feedly Summary: For AI developers building cutting-edge applications with large model sizes, a reliable foundation is non-negotiable. You need your AI to perform consistently, delivering results without hiccups, even under pressure. This means having dedicated resources that won’t get bogged down…

  • Slashdot: Security Researchers Create Proof-of-Concept Program that Evades Linux Syscall-Watching Antivirus

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/04/0455245/security-researchers-create-proof-of-concept-program-that-evades-linux-syscall-watching-antivirus Source: Slashdot Title: Security Researchers Create Proof-of-Concept Program that Evades Linux Syscall-Watching Antivirus Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent proof-of-concept that highlights a security vulnerability related to Linux’s io_uring interface. This interface allows applications to perform asynchronous I/O operations, but can create blind spots for…

  • 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…

  • Gemini: Listen to a podcast deep dive on long context in Gemini models.

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    Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/release-notes-podcast-long-context/ Source: Gemini Title: Listen to a podcast deep dive on long context in Gemini models. Feedly Summary: The latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast focuses on long context in Gemini — meaning how much information our AI models can process as input at once — … AI Summary and…