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  • Cloud Blog: How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/how-schroders-built-its-multi-agent-financial-analysis-research-assistant/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant Feedly Summary: Financial analysts spend hours grappling with ever-increasing volumes of market and company data to extract key signals, combine diverse data sources, and produce company research. Schroders is a leading global active investment manager. Being an active manager…

  • The Register: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/germany_probes_ai_market_over_competition_concerns/ Source: The Register Title: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Feedly Summary: Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes…

  • AWS News Blog: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-improve-apache-iceberg-query-performance-in-amazon-s3-with-sort-and-z-order-compaction/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by…

  • Cloud Blog: The secret to document intelligence: Box builds Enhanced Extract Agents using Google’s Agent-2-Agent framework

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/box-ai-agents-with-googles-agent-2-agent-protocol/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The secret to document intelligence: Box builds Enhanced Extract Agents using Google’s Agent-2-Agent framework Feedly Summary: Box is one of the original information sharing and collaboration platforms of the digital era. They’ve helped define how we work, and have continued to evolve those practices alongside successive waves of…

  • Slashdot: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/1844252/what-are-the-carbon-costs-of-asking-an-ai-a-question?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into the environmental impact of using artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on energy consumption and carbon costs. It highlights how energy usage varies between AI models and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: model.yaml

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/model-yaml/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: model.yaml Feedly Summary: model.yaml From their GitHub repo it looks like this effort quietly launched a couple of months ago, driven by the LM Studio team. Their goal is to specify an “open standard for defining crossplatform, composable AI models". A model can be defined using a…

  • Slashdot: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010218/record-ddos-pummels-site-with-once-unimaginable-73tbps-of-junk-traffic?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a record-breaking DDoS attack that targeted a Cloudflare customer, measured at 7.3 terabits per second. It highlights the sophistication of the attack, which utilized multiple amplification vectors and…

  • 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…

  • 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…