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  • AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-graviton4-based-instances-with-nvme-ssd-storage/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage Feedly Summary: AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • The Register: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/mcp_guide/ Source: The Register Title: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI Feedly Summary: Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it’s not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Feedly Summary: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the word…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2224205/microsoft-researchers-develop-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a highly efficient 1-bit AI model featuring 2 billion parameters, optimized for CPU use and accessible under an MIT license. It surpasses competitors in…

  • The Register: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/microsoft_copilot_computer_use/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer? Feedly Summary: Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Betker

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/james-betker/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Betker Feedly Summary: I work for OpenAI. […] o4-mini is actually a considerably better vision model than o3, despite the benchmarks. Similar to how o3-mini-high was a much better coding model than o1. I would recommend using o4-mini-high over o3 for any task involving vision.…