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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Arvind Narayanan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/arvind-narayanan/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Arvind Narayanan Feedly Summary: [On using generative AI for work despite the risk of errors:] AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself. For example, if you’re using it to find a…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/reliable-ai-with-vertex-ai-prediction-dedicated-endpoints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints Feedly Summary: For AI developers building cutting-edge applications with large model sizes, a reliable foundation is non-negotiable. You need your AI to perform consistently, delivering results without hiccups, even under pressure. This means having dedicated resources that won’t get bogged down…

  • Cloud Blog: Build live voice-driven agentic applications with Vertex AI Gemini Live API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-voice-driven-applications-with-live-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build live voice-driven agentic applications with Vertex AI Gemini Live API Feedly Summary: Across industries, enterprises need efficient and proactive solutions. Imagine frontline professionals using voice commands and visual input to diagnose issues, access vital information, and initiate processes in real-time. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Live API empowers…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful Feedly Summary: A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Slashdot: Irish Privacy Watchdog Fines TikTok $600 Million For China Data Transfers

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/02/2032203/irish-privacy-watchdog-fines-tiktok-600-million-for-china-data-transfers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Irish Privacy Watchdog Fines TikTok $600 Million For China Data Transfers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant regulatory action by the European Union against TikTok, fining the company for improper data transfer practices and potential risks to user privacy. This case is…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…

  • Schneier on Security: Privacy for Agentic AI

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/privacy-for-agentic-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Privacy for Agentic AI Feedly Summary: Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent idea.…