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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/alibaba_qwen3_hybrid_thinking/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba admits Qwen3’s hybrid-thinking mode was dumb Feedly Summary: Chinese e-commerce giant is going back to dedicated instruct and thinking-tuned models as they prioritize quality over convenience One of the headline features of Alibaba’s Qwen 3 family of models when they launched back in April was the ability…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Krouse

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/steve-krouse/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Krouse Feedly Summary: When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: It’s only legacy code if you have to maintain it! […] The worst…

The Register: Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/firms_are_neglecting_ai_security/ Source: The Register Title: Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed Feedly Summary: IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance… Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target…

Slashdot: Google is Using AI Age Checks To Lock Down User Accounts

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1731256/google-is-using-ai-age-checks-to-lock-down-user-accounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Using AI Age Checks To Lock Down User Accounts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google is expanding its AI-driven age estimation technology to identify whether users in the US are under 18, which will have implications for compliance with age-related regulations. This initiative aims…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

Cloud Blog: Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/pluto7-pi-agent-ai-meets-agentspace/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ride-share-like planning with Agentic AI: Pluto7 + Google Agentspace transform supply Chains Feedly Summary: Pluto7, an early Google partner, has integrated Agentspace into its Planning in a Box platform Pi Agent to address inventory and demand planning challenges. Agentspace provides an Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building specialized…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Going beyond 2FA to address fast-rising, emerging threats

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-adding-new-layered-protections-to-2fa/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Going beyond 2FA to address fast-rising, emerging threats Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Andy Wen, director, product management, Workspace Security, discusses new efforts we’re making to defend against identity-based cyberattacks.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

The Register: Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

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