The Beginner’s Guide to Computer Vision with Python
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.
How the Amazon AMET Payments team accelerates test case generation with Strands Agents
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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Introducing BigQuery managed and SQL-native inference for open models
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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Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
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.
AIs behaving badly: An AI trained to deliberately make bad code will become bad at unrelated tasks, too
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 …
Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Probability & Noise
Editor’s note: This article is a part of our series on visualizing the foundations of machine learning.
How AutoScout24 built a Bot Factory to standardize AI agent development with Amazon Bedrock
AutoScout24 is Europe’s leading automotive marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers of new and used cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles across several European countries. Their long-term vision is to build a Bot Factory, a centralized framework for creating and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can perform tasks and make decisions within workflows, to …
Palo Alto Networks automates customer intelligence document creation with agentic design
For a global cybersecurity leader like Palo Alto Networks, a comprehensive understanding of each customer is critical for success. For every engagement the Palo Alto Networks pre-sales team has, the comprehensive understanding is centralized in an internal Document of Record (DOR), a vital asset that provides a 360-degree standardized view of the customer for sales …
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Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.
Generative AI tool helps 3D print personalized items that withstand daily use
Generative artificial intelligence models have left such an indelible impact on digital content creation that it’s getting harder to recall what the internet was like before it. You can call on these AI tools for clever projects such as videos and photos—but their flair for the creative hasn’t quite crossed over into the physical world …
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