Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal
A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. “I don’t even know where to start with this,” says one expert.
Artificial sense of touch, improved
While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door key and cool roundness of an apple.
System converts fabric images into complete machine-readable knitting instructions
Recent advances in robotics and machine learning have enabled the automation of many real-world tasks, including various manufacturing and industrial processes. Among other applications, robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been successfully used to automate some steps in manufacturing clothes.
Local Pan-Privacy for Federated Analytics
Pan-privacy was proposed by Dwork et al. (2010) as an approach to designing a private analytics system that retains its privacy properties in the face of intrusions that expose the system’s internal state. Motivated by federated telemetry applications, we study local pan-privacy, where privacy should be retained under repeated unannounced intrusions on the local state. …
Best practices for Meta Llama 3.2 multimodal fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock
Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual and textual information. Although base multimodal models offer impressive general capabilities, they often fall short when faced with specialized visual tasks, domain-specific content, or particular output formatting requirements. Fine-tuning addresses these limitations by adapting models …
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Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China
The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.
7 Emerging Trends in Generative AI and Their Real-World Impact
Generative AI continues to rapidly evolve, reshaping how industries create, operate, and engage with users.
5 Problems Encountered Fine-Tuning LLMs with Solutions
Fine-tuning remains a cornerstone technique for adapting general-purpose pre-trained large language models (LLMs) models (also called foundation models) to serve more specialized, high-value downstream tasks, even as zero- and few-shot methods gain traction.
Data Streaming: Real-time data for real-time decisions
Data Streaming: Real-time data for real-time decisions (Palantir RFx Blog Series, #8) Often the most business critical decisions are also the most time-sensitive. Data streaming technologies let organizations act on information (almost) as quickly as it comes in. Editor’s note: This is the eighth post in the Palantir RFx Blog Series, which explores how organizations can better …
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Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation: Boost function calling accuracy while reducing cost and latency
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is generally available, and it addresses the fundamental challenge many organizations face when deploying generative AI: how to maintain high performance while reducing costs and latency. This technique transfers knowledge from larger, more capable foundation models (FMs) that act as teachers to smaller, more efficient models (students), creating specialized models that …