Potentially the most insane LORA you’ll see today – Archer (8 characters + style) Ideogram LORA

Hi, I’m Dever and I like training LORAs, you can download this one from Huggingface (you can find other style LORAs for Klein and ZIT in my HF profile). I believe this might be the first Ideogram 8 characters in one + style lora on HuggingFace and a good proof of concept that this is …

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Safeguard your agentic AI applications with the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails InvokeGuardrailChecks API

Today, we’re announcing a new API with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. With this API, you can apply individual safeguards, also referred to as safety checks, at any point in your agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. The new InvokeGuardrailChecks API gives you the flexibility to invoke supported safeguards at any turn in the agentic loop …

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How Siemens “slices the elephant,” advancing agentic workflows for industrial software development

For technology companies like Siemens, software is the nervous system of factories, energy grids, and transportation networks worldwide. As a global leader in industrial AI, industrial software, and industrial automation, Siemens brings decades of domain expertise across factory and process automation, energy infrastructure, and intelligent transportation — expertise that no off-the-shelf AI solution can replicate. …

Engineered van der Waals crystal mimics neuronal cells with light-driven learning

A research team led by Professor Taesung Kim of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed an optoelectronic synaptic device that mimics the functions of human neurons and synapses at the device scale. The researchers designed a van der Waals (vdW) crystal through a single-step sulfurization process using mixed plasma. The …

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Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 is a family of open-weight models designed with a focus on intelligence-per-parameter across a broad range of deployment scenarios. The family includes three instruction-tuned variants: Gemma 4 31B, …

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while building AI Threat Defense. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …