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Cloud Blog: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives

Oct 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/150-ai-use-cases-leading-startups-and-digital-natives/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives Feedly Summary: We recently hosted our first-ever AI Builders Forum, where we gathered with hundreds of the top founders, VCs, advisors, researchers, and teams powering the startups who are building the future with AI. And…

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

Oct 3, 2025

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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,…

Slashdot: xAI Offers Grok To Federal Government For 42 Cents

Sep 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/26/197223/xai-offers-grok-to-federal-government-for-42-cents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: xAI Offers Grok To Federal Government For 42 Cents Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a deal between xAI and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to supply the Grok chatbot to federal agencies at a significantly reduced price, showcasing competition among AI companies.…

The Register: AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

Sep 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/grokai_servces_us_government/ Source: The Register Title: AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42 Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s AI appears to be more ideological than competitors Despite protest letters, concerns that it’s biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Provide Grok Chatbot to US Agencies

Sep 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/grok-xai-government-elon-musk.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Provide Grok Chatbot to US Agencies Feedly Summary: The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok for a small fee. AI Summary and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

Sep 21, 2025

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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…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 8, 2025

Sep 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-258 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of September 8, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info Adobe–Acrobat Reader Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30254, 20.005.30774, 25.001.20672 and earlier are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the…

Slashdot: Microsoft is Making ‘Significant Investments’ in Training Its Own AI Models

Sep 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/1713227/microsoft-is-making-significant-investments-in-training-its-own-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft is Making ‘Significant Investments’ in Training Its Own AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft AI has launched its first in-house models, enhancing its competitive landscape with OpenAI. CEO Mustafa Suleyman emphasizes significant investments in compute capacity to support the development of advanced models,…

Cloud Blog: Accelerate data science with new Dataproc multi-tenant clusters

Sep 9, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/announcing-dataproc-multi-tenant-clusters/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate data science with new Dataproc multi-tenant clusters Feedly Summary: With the rapid growth of AI/ML, data science teams need a better notebook experience to meet the growing demand for and importance of their work to drive innovation. Additionally, scaling data science workloads also creates new challenges for…

The Register: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups

Aug 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/xais_grok_has_no_place/ Source: The Register Title: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Feedly Summary: Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole ‘MechaHitler’ thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI’s Grok in the…

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