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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek 3.1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/deepseek-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek 3.1 Feedly Summary: DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it’s a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig points out that their benchmarks…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • The Register: Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/firefox_142/ Source: The Register Title: Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links Feedly Summary: CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla’s browser now makes even more extensive use of AI, providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/too-many-mcps/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Feedly Summary: too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP. Geoffrey estimate estimates that…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/gemini-cloud-assist-investigations-performs-root-cause-analysis/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis Feedly Summary: Debugging in a complex, distributed cloud environment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. The sheer volume of data, intertwined dependencies, and ephemeral issues make traditional troubleshooting methods time-consuming and often reactive.…

  • OpenAI : Accelerating life sciences research

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research-with-retro-biosciences Source: OpenAI Title: Accelerating life sciences research Feedly Summary: Discover how a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, helped OpenAI and Retro Bio engineer more effective proteins for stem cell therapy and longevity research. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the utilization of a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, in…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Agents Need Data Integrity

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/ai-agents-need-data-integrity.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Agents Need Data Integrity Feedly Summary: Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original charter’s…

  • The Register: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/deepseek_v31_chinese_chip_hints/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Feedly Summary: Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for…

  • The Register: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/anthropic_claude_nuclear_chat_detection/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Feedly Summary: Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear…

  • The Register: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/google_gemini_image_scaling_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge…