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AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations

Since its inception over 20 years ago, Google has used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to keep services like Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube and Google Cloud reliable and highly available, adhering to the principles and practices of the reliability-first mindset. Recently though, the emergence of AI has driven multiple step-changes in system complexity. Interactions between components …

Using depth maps and weight noising to get better character LoRAs

A few weeks ago I introduced a new method for training style LoRAs which has been quite successful. A bunch of folks asked if this would also help with character training. The short answer is yes, but it needed a separate technique on top of the depth stuff. I’ve got something dialed in well enough …

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Process financial documents using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Financial institutions process thousands of documents daily, including tax forms, loan statements, and purchase orders. Each has a unique format, structure, and field names, making it challenging to create automation workflows using optical character recognition (OCR) software. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) helps solve these challenges by automating the extraction, validation, and analysis of data …

Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary

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Anima-Base is magic and i don’t think people realize how good it is.

I made a post about ZIT earlier this month, but i think its time ANIMA gets a post aswell. Every image is made by me and made with ONLY anima-base-1, NO loras. Below i shared the CivitAI posts so you can find prompts and in some cases the ComfyUI workflows aswell. This model is insane …