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  • Slashdot: LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/2118229/linkedin-set-to-start-to-train-its-ai-on-member-profiles Source: Slashdot Title: LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: LinkedIn’s announcement regarding the use of member profiles, posts, and public activity to train its AI models raises significant privacy and compliance concerns. The default opt-in mechanism for data collection…

  • Slashdot: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/0313234/reddit-wants-deeper-integration-with-google-in-exchange-for-licensed-ai-training-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reddit Wants ‘Deeper Integration’ with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Reddit’s ongoing negotiations with Google for a new deal that involves deeper integration with AI products and a dynamic pricing structure for licensing its data.…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Slashdot: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0120220/is-openais-video-generating-tool-sora-scraping-unauthorized-youtube-clips Source: Slashdot Title: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, highlighting its ability to create high-definition video clips by utilizing publicly available and licensed data. Concerns are raised regarding copyright implications, as Sora has…

  • The Register: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/meta_wholesale_leccy/ Source: The Register Title: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity Feedly Summary: With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several…

  • The Register: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/deepseek_cost_train/ Source: The Register Title: Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000 Feedly Summary: Training costs detailed in R1 training report don’t include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation Chinese AI darling DeepSeek’s now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside…

  • Cloud Blog: 5 best practices for Managed Lustre on Google Kubernetes Engine

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-managed-lustre-csi-driver-for-aiml-and-hpc-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 5 best practices for Managed Lustre on Google Kubernetes Engine Feedly Summary: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a powerful platform for orchestrating scalable AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. But as clusters grow and jobs become more data-intensive, storage I/O can become a bottleneck. Your powerful GPUs and…

  • Cloud Blog: Back to AI school: New Google Cloud training to future-proof your AI skills

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/new-google-cloud-training-to-future-proof-ai-skills/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Back to AI school: New Google Cloud training to future-proof your AI skills Feedly Summary: Getting ahead — and staying ahead — of the demand for AI skills isn’t just key for those looking for a new role. Research shows proving your skills through credentials drives promotion, salary…