Tag: technologies

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

Cloud Blog: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/agent-factory-recap-keith-ballinger-on-ai-the-future-of-development-and-vibe-coding/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future…

Gemini: CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at the White House AI Education Taskforce event

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Source URL: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/ai-education-efforts/ Source: Gemini Title: CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at the White House AI Education Taskforce event Feedly Summary: Google is offering Gemini for Education to American high schools, and committing $150 million in grants to support AI education and digital wellbeing. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s initiative to offer Gemini for…

Cloud Blog: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-baseten-achieves-better-cost-performance-for-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Feedly Summary: Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers,…

Scott Logic: Technology Carbon Standard Update – 4th September 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/04/technology-carbon-standard-update-4-sept.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Technology Carbon Standard Update – 4th September 2025 Feedly Summary: The Scott Logic sustainability team has recently been updating the open-source Technology Carbon Standard website to better reflect evolving challenges of carbon accounting in the tech sector. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses updates to…

Cloud Blog: StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/media-entertainment/streamsight-driving-transparency-in-music-royalties-with-ai-powered-forecasting/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: StreamSight: Driving transparency in music royalties with AI-powered forecasting Feedly Summary: In an industry generating vast volumes of streaming data every day, ensuring precision, speed, and transparency in royalty tracking is a constant and evolving priority. For music creators, labels, publishers, and rights holders, even small gaps in…

The Register: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/ Source: The Register Title: UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Feedly Summary: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don’t bother with anything more complex A UK government department’s three-month trial of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up…

The Register: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sainsburys_lfr/ Source: The Register Title: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech…

The Register: France fines Google, SHEIN, for undercooked Cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

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