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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…

  • Slashdot: MediaTek Launches Improved AI Processor To Compete With Qualcomm

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/23/0434209/mediatek-launches-improved-ai-processor-to-compete-with-qualcomm Source: Slashdot Title: MediaTek Launches Improved AI Processor To Compete With Qualcomm Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: MediaTek’s launch of the Dimensity 9500 mobile processor enhances AI capabilities on devices, directly competing with Qualcomm in the performance of AI tasks. This advancement, built on a sophisticated 3-nanometer process, has…

  • Slashdot: Google’s Gemini AI Is Coming To Your TV

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    Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/2257230/googles-gemini-ai-is-coming-to-your-tv?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s Gemini AI Is Coming To Your TV Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s Gemini AI assistant is being integrated into Google TV, enhancing user interactivity across over 300 million devices. This development highlights the growing trend towards conversational AI in home entertainment, retaining previous functionalities…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/workslop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano and Jeffrey T. Hancock Feedly Summary: We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task. Here’s how this happens. As AI…

  • Slashdot: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/1955220/metas-ai-system-llama-approved-for-use-by-us-government-agencies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has authorized Meta’s AI system, Llama, for use by federal agencies, indicating its compliance with security and legal standards. This approval may enhance operational…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • The Register: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/meta_wholesale_leccy/ Source: The Register Title: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity Feedly Summary: With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several…