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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge data access performance with GKE Data Cache

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-data-cache-now-ga-accelerates-stateful-apps/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge data access performance with GKE Data Cache Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of GKE Data Cache, a powerful new solution for Google Kubernetes Engine to accelerate the performance of read-heavy stateful or stateless applications that rely on persistent storage via network…

  • Cloud Blog: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-enhancements-for-the-developer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger Feedly Summary: Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous…

  • Cloud Blog: Simplify database fleet management with AI-powered Database Center, now GA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-center-is-now-generally-available/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Simplify database fleet management with AI-powered Database Center, now GA Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced the general availability of Database Center, an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that simplifies all aspects of database fleet management including monitoring, optimization, and security.  Database Center replaces fragmented…

  • The Register: Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/socket_get_jacked_with_reachability/ Source: The Register Title: Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore Feedly Summary: Sometimes, less information is more In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that…

  • Cloud Blog: Expanding our Risk Protection Program with new insurance partners and AI coverage

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/whats-new-with-google-clouds-risk-protection-program/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding our Risk Protection Program with new insurance partners and AI coverage Feedly Summary: Today’s businesses have a vital need to manage and, when appropriate, transfer cyber risk in their cloud environments — even with robust security measures in place. At Google Cloud Next last month, we unveiled…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/openai-on-twitter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter Feedly Summary: By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today. GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

  • The Register: Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they’re ready to rock

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/new_job_machine_learning_administrator/ Source: The Register Title: Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they’re ready to rock Feedly Summary: IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator…