Tag: times

  • Cloud Blog: Partners powering the Gemini Enterprise agent ecosystem

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/partners-powering-the-gemini-enterprise-agent-ecosystem/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Partners powering the Gemini Enterprise agent ecosystem Feedly Summary: Google Cloud believes the future of AI should be open, flexible, and interoperable. Today, with the launch of Gemini Enterprise – our new agentic platform that brings the best of Google AI to every employee, for every workflow –…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…

  • Cloud Blog: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/cost-saving-strategies-when-migrating-to-google-cloud-compute/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today Feedly Summary: As the saying goes, “a penny saved is a penny earned," and this couldn’t be more true when it comes to cloud infrastructure. In today’s competitive business landscape, you need to maintain the performance to meet…

  • Cloud Blog: Connect Spark data pipelines to Gemini and other AI models with Dataproc ML library

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/gemini-and-vertex-ai-for-spark-with-dataproc-ml-library/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Connect Spark data pipelines to Gemini and other AI models with Dataproc ML library Feedly Summary: Many data science teams rely on Apache Spark running on Dataproc managed clusters for powerful, large-scale data preparation. As these teams look to connect their data pipelines directly to machine learning models,…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : This Thriller Writer Took on a Tech Giant. And Won.

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/books/review/andrea-bartz-anthropic-lawsuit.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: This Thriller Writer Took on a Tech Giant. And Won. Feedly Summary: Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history. AI Summary and Description:…