How Cavanagh and Palantir Are Building Construction’s OS for the 21st Century Editor’s Note: This blog post is co-authored by Joe Patrois, AI Lead, Thomas Cavanagh Construction, and Jesse Velay-Vitow, Deployment Strategist, Palantir, reflecting insights from both sides of this transformative partnership. Introduction Construction is one of the world’s oldest industries and a prerequisite for nearly …
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, the need for intuitive and efficient management interfaces has never been greater. Traditional command-line interfaces (CLI) and web consoles, while powerful, can create barriers to quick decision-making and operational efficiency. What if you could speak to your AWS infrastructure and get immediate, intelligent responses? In this post, we explore …
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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Francis deSouza, COO and president, Security Products, Google Cloud, shares our Cybersecurity Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google …
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Unveiling what it describes as the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work, OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 today. The model was trained and deployed on NVIDIA infrastructure, including NVIDIA Hopper and GB200 NVL72 systems. It’s the latest example of how leading AI builders train and deploy at scale on NVIDIA’s full-stack AI infrastructure. Pretraining: …
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This post was written with Bryan Woolgar-O’Neil, Jamie Cockrill and Adrian Cunliffe from Harmonic Security Organizations face increasing challenges protecting sensitive data while supporting third-party generative AI tools. Harmonic Security, a cybersecurity company, developed an AI governance and control layer that spots sensitive data in line as employees use AI, giving security teams the power …
In today’s dynamic business environment, accurate forecasting is the bedrock of efficient operations. Yet, businesses across all industries grapple with the constant challenge of predicting future demand, resource needs, and market trends. Nor is this an abstract problem; the cost of miscalculation can be substantial, leading to wasted resources and missed opportunities. Imagine a large …
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BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical work shows it can be inserted through a small opening in the skull and remain …
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Google DeepMind and UK AI Security Institute (AISI) strengthen collaboration on critical AI safety and security research
Standard discrete diffusion models treat all unobserved states identically by mapping them to an absorbing [MASK] token. This creates an ‘information void’ where semantic information that could be inferred from unmasked tokens is lost between denoising steps. We introduce Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion (CADD), a framework that augments the discrete state space with a paired …
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Automated smoke testing using Amazon Nova Act headless mode helps development teams validate core functionality in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Development teams often deploy code several times daily, so fast testing helps maintain application quality. Traditional end-to-end testing can take hours to complete, creating delays in your CI/CD pipeline. Smoke testing is …
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