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Slashdot: Duolingo Faces Massive Social Media Backlash After ‘AI-First’ Comments

May 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/25/0347239/duolingo-faces-massive-social-media-backlash-after-ai-first-comments Source: Slashdot Title: Duolingo Faces Massive Social Media Backlash After ‘AI-First’ Comments Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Duolingo’s recent shift towards an “AI-first” policy spearheaded by CEO Luis von Ahn, resulting in the phasing out of human contractors. This move has led to significant public backlash,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it

Apr 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it Feedly Summary: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it Relatively thin post from OpenAI talking about their recent rollback of the GPT-4o model that made the model way too sycophantic – “overly…

Cloud Blog: Google Cloud named a Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics Platforms

Apr 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/2025-forrester-wave-data-management-for-analytics-platforms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud named a Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics Platforms Feedly Summary: The rise of AI is revolutionizing data management platforms, where advanced automation, built-in data intelligence, and AI-powered data management are changing how organizations manage traditional tasks like data ingestion, data processing…

Cloud Blog: Introducing BigQuery DataFrames 2.0 for the era of multimodal data science

Apr 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/a-closer-look-at-bigquery-dataframes-2-0/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing BigQuery DataFrames 2.0 for the era of multimodal data science Feedly Summary: For data scientists and ML engineers, building analysis and models in Python is almost second nature, and Python’s popularity in the data science community has only skyrocketed with the recent generative AI boom. We believe…

Cloud Blog: Announcing the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK

Apr 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/announcing-the-first-cohort-of-the-google-for-startups-accelerator/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the first cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK Feedly Summary: At Google, we believe in empowering people and founders to use AI to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges. That’s why we’re supporting the next generation of AI leaders through our Google for Startups Accelerator:…

The Register: AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI’s profit pivot

Apr 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_for_profit_stop_urged/ Source: The Register Title: AI bigwigs urge AGs to block OpenAI’s profit pivot Feedly Summary: Elon’s not the only one sounding the alarm over the AI giant’s cash grab A group of AI heavyweights and ex-OpenAI staffers are urging the attorneys general of California and Delaware to block the ChatGPT shop’s latest…

Slashdot: AI Secretly Helped Write California Bar Exam, Sparking Uproar

Apr 23, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/2025217/ai-secretly-helped-write-california-bar-exam-sparking-uproar?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Secretly Helped Write California Bar Exam, Sparking Uproar Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The State Bar of California’s decision to use AI in generating questions for the February 2025 bar exam has sparked significant backlash from legal educators and test-takers. The controversy raises concerns about…

AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)

Apr 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-upcoming-aws-summits-amazon-q-developer-amazon-cloudfront-updates-and-more-april-21-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025) Feedly Summary: Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry…

Slashdot: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’

Apr 20, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0332214/open-source-advocate-argues-deepseek-is-a-movement-its-linux-all-over-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as an influential open-source AI model and its impact on global collaboration in AI development, particularly highlighting the role of platforms…

Slashdot: CA/Browser Forum Votes for 47-Day Cert Durations By 2029

Apr 19, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/1745216/cabrowser-forum-votes-for-47-day-cert-durations-by-2029?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CA/Browser Forum Votes for 47-Day Cert Durations By 2029 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The CA/Browser Forum’s decision to reduce the lifespan of TLS certificates from one year to 47 days is set to significantly impact enterprise IT operations, demanding greater automation in certificate management. This…

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