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  • Hacker News: Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025, Says Marc Benioff

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    Source URL: https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-will-hire-no-more-software-engineers-in-2025-says-marc-benioff/ Source: Hacker News Title: Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025, Says Marc Benioff Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement by Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff regarding a hiring freeze for software engineers in 2025 reflects the significant productivity gains achieved through AI, specifically the company’s…

  • Hacker News: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson

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    Source URL: https://aide.dev/blog/sota-bitter-lesson Source: Hacker News Title: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in AI, particularly around leveraging large language models (LLMs) for software engineering challenges through novel approaches such as test-time inference scaling. It emphasizes the key insight that scaling…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…

  • Cloud Blog: Distributed data preprocessing with GKE and Ray: Scaling for the enterprise

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/preprocessing-large-datasets-with-ray-and-gke/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Distributed data preprocessing with GKE and Ray: Scaling for the enterprise Feedly Summary: The exponential growth of machine learning models brings with it ever-increasing datasets. This data deluge creates a significant bottleneck in the Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) lifecycle, as traditional data preprocessing methods struggle to scale. The…

  • OpenAI : Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/deliberative-alignment Source: OpenAI Title: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Feedly Summary: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Introducing our new alignment strategy for o1 models, which are directly taught safety specifications and how to reason over them. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new alignment strategy…

  • Hacker News: Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/nvidia-ceo-says-his-ai-chips-are-improving-faster-than-moores-law/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, asserts that the performance of the company’s AI chips is advancing at a pace exceeding the historical benchmark of Moore’s Law. This…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-the-new-aws-asia-pacific-thailand-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region Feedly Summary: AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now!…

  • Krebs on Security: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prolific-voice-phishing-crew/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Feedly Summary: Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/7/david-crawshaw/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when…

  • Cloud Blog: Supervised Fine Tuning for Gemini: A best practices guide

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/master-gemini-sft/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supervised Fine Tuning for Gemini: A best practices guide Feedly Summary: Foundation models such as Gemini have revolutionized how we work, but sometimes they need guidance to excel at specific business tasks. Perhaps their answers are too long, or their summaries miss the mark. That’s where supervised fine-tuning…