tool usage – Experimental News Clipping Site

Cisco Talos Blog: Velociraptor leveraged in ransomware attacks

Oct 9, 2025

—

by

Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/velociraptor-leveraged-in-ransomware-attacks/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Velociraptor leveraged in ransomware attacks Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has confirmed that ransomware operators are leveraging Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool that had not previously been definitively tied to ransomware incidents. We assess with moderate confidence that this activity can be attributed to…

Cloud Blog: The new data scientist: From analyst to agentic architect

Sep 24, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/enabling-data-scientists-to-become-agentic-architects/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The new data scientist: From analyst to agentic architect Feedly Summary: The role of the data scientist is rapidly transforming. For the past decade, their mission has centered on analyzing the past to run predictive models that informed business decisions. Today, that is no longer enough. The market…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

Sep 19, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

AWS News Blog: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

Sep 18, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-v3-1-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

Tomasz Tunguz: 10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most?

Sep 9, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/mcp-server-activity/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: 10 Months into AI Agents : Which Are Used Most? Feedly Summary: When Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol, they promised to simplify using agents. MCP enables an AI to understand which tools rest at its disposal : web search, file editing, & email drafting for example. Ten…

The Register: GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

Aug 18, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/ Source: The Register Title: GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire Feedly Summary: MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scale US companies have invested between $35 and $40 billion in Generative AI initiatives and, so far, have almost…

The Register: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions

Jul 29, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/ Source: The Register Title: Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad

Jul 21, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/21/gemini-imo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad Feedly Summary: Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad OpenAI beat them to the punch in terms of publicity by publishing their…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Jul 12, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…

Irrational Exuberance: What can agents actually do?

Jul 6, 2025

—

by

Kurt Seifried

in Uncategorized

Source URL: https://lethain.com/what-can-agents-do/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: What can agents actually do? Feedly Summary: There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but…

Tag: tool usage