Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2026. Today, Tom Curry and Anton Chuvakin, from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, share our new report on using Google’s Secure AI Framework with Google Cloud capabilities and services to build boldly and responsibly with AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of …
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Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. …
Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.
OpenAI announced Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs.
Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence that gives computer systems the ability to analyze, interpret, and understand visual data, namely images and videos.
At Amazon.ae, we serve approximately 10 million customers monthly across five countries in the Middle East and North Africa region—United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, and South Africa. Our AMET (Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye) Payments team manages payment selections, transactions, experiences, and affordability features across these diverse countries, publishing on average five …
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BigQuery provides access to a variety of LLMs for text and embedding generation, including Google’s Gemini models, Google-managed models from partners like Anthropic and Mistral. Using Gemini models and Google-managed partner models in BigQuery is simple — just create the model with the foundation model name and run inference directly in SQL queries. Today, we …
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Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. They’re also pissed at Meta.
Artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behavior across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice, suggests a new study. The research probes the mechanisms that cause this misaligned behavior, but further work must be done to find out why it happens and how to prevent …
Editor’s note: This article is a part of our series on visualizing the foundations of machine learning.