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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/australian_treasury_copilot_pilot_assessment/ Source: The Register Title: After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft’s AI it less useful than expected Feedly Summary: Not all bad news for Microsoft as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides Australia’s Department of the Treasury has found that Microsoft’s Copilot can easily deliver return on investment,…

The Register: Yup, AMD’s Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/cisco_amd_dpu/ Source: The Register Title: Yup, AMD’s Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security Feedly Summary: Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Cisco is cramming into more of its switches Pensando data processing units (DPUs) from AMD, which will be dedicated to handling security,…

Hacker News: ASTRA: HackerRank’s coding benchmark for LLMs

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Source URL: https://www.hackerrank.com/ai/astra-reports Source: Hacker News Title: ASTRA: HackerRank’s coding benchmark for LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the HackerRank’s ASTRA benchmark focused on evaluating advanced AI models’ performance in real-world coding tasks, particularly for front-end development. It highlights the benchmark’s methodologies, findings on model performance, and insights…

Hacker News: Replicating Deepseek-R1 for $4500: RL Boosts 1.5B Model Beyond o1-preview

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Source URL: https://github.com/agentica-project/deepscaler Source: Hacker News Title: Replicating Deepseek-R1 for $4500: RL Boosts 1.5B Model Beyond o1-preview Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the release of DeepScaleR, an open-source project aimed at democratizing reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs). It highlights the project’s capabilities, training methodologies, and…

The Register: UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/ai_tools_mot_testing/ Source: The Register Title: UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers Feedly Summary: Who tests the testers? The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has produced a list showing how the country uses AI technologies to perform tasks ranging from speeding up the planning process…

The Register: Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/ai_impact_hits_midtohigh_wage_jobs/ Source: The Register Title: Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles Feedly Summary: Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about Workers in just four percent of occupations use AI for three quarters…

The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_study_ai_critical_thinking/ Source: The Register Title: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find Feedly Summary: Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don’t understand, you may assume AI has the answers Some knowledge workers risk becoming over-reliant on generative…

Hacker News: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

Feb 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171 Source: Hacker News Title: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel language model architecture that enhances test-time computation through latent reasoning, presenting a new methodology that contrasts with traditional reasoning models. It emphasizes the…

Slashdot: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition ‘Atrophied and Unprepared’

Feb 10, 2025

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