John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields  —  There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea.  It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Microsoft says GitHub Copilot has 15M+ users, up 4x YoY; GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says its code review agent, launched in April, has handled 8M+ pull requests  —  As part of today’s earnings report, Microsoft revealed that GitHub Copilot now has over 15 million users, thanks to 4x growth year-over-year (YOY). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for edge app developers  —  Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says it disagrees with the US court’s injunction in its dispute against Epic Games and plans to appeal, but will comply with the order in the meantime  —  In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said the company disagrees with the decision and plans to appeal—but will comply with the court’s order in the meantime: Lees verder op Tech Meme