Revival Rugs Birthday Sale: 20 Percent Off Sitewide Through Sunday
The brand’s lovely selection of hand-knotted and handwoven wool rugs at reasonable prices make it a WIRED-staff favorite.
Cambridge scientists create a $10 chip that could put a medical lab on your wrist
Cambridge researchers have created a groundbreaking $10 optical sensor that delivers the precision of laboratory equipment in a device small enough for wearable technology. It identified foods, plastics, and medicines with 100% accuracy in tests and demonstrated the ability to monitor blood glucose, alcohol, and other health markers without invasive procedures.
AI deepfakes are getting more realistic. Scientists developed a better way to spot them
Hundreds of the nation’s computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an AI-generated version of him?
Single-tenant Titus: VM-level isolation on a multi-tenant container platform
Samartha Chandrashekar & Nick Parker You click play on a Friday night, and in the second that follows, dozens of services answer in milliseconds. Most of them run on Titus, our internal container platform. Titus is, in essence, a Kubernetes-based container hosting platform: we keep both the control plane and the data plane (the container hosts …
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Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine
Amazon Polly Generative engine now offers more natural and accurate speech output. We’re introducing an upgrade to the Amazon Polly Generative engine that delivers more expressive, more accurate speech output with low latency. The upgrade adds 14 new voices across 9 locales, including general availability of Generative voices in Hindi and Finnish for the first …
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Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud
Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural flexibility to run workloads however they need. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude Models on Google Cloud. This gives teams more choice in how …
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Palmer Luckey Made a Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup
Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create “elite working dogs” equipped with “advanced body armor.”
People are taking an unapproved weight-loss drug. AI found something surprising
Researchers analyzing nearly 150,000 Reddit posts uncovered unexpected symptom reports linked by users to unapproved versions of retatrutide, including increased appetite, sleep disturbances, and elevated heart rates. The findings differ from clinical trial results and highlight how AI could help identify potential drug safety signals that warrant further investigation.
App’s AI ‘eyes’ for blind users fall short, researchers find
A blind man points his phone at a pan and asks, “Are the sausages brown yet?” The app he’s using responds out loud that some spots are still slightly pink. So a bit later, he takes another photo and asks again, and then again, about four times in all, until the food is fully cooked.
How to Build a Multi-Modal RAG Pipeline for Images and Documents in Python
In this article, you will learn how to build a multi-modal RAG pipeline in Python that retrieves and reasons over both text and images extracted…