The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
Applications with Context Vectors
This post is divided into two parts; they are: • Contextual Keyword Extraction • Contextual Text Summarization Contextual keyword extraction is a technique for identifying the most important words in a document based on their contextual relevance.
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
Transform text-based prompts into high-resolution eight-second videos in Gemini Advanced and use Whisk Animate to turn images into eight-second animated clips.
Scaling Laws for Native Multimodal Models
Building general-purpose models that can effectively perceive the world through multimodal signals has been a long-standing goal. Current approaches involve integrating separately pre-trained components, such as connecting vision encoders to LLMs and continuing multimodal training. While such approaches exhibit remarkable sample efficiency, it remains an open question whether such late-fusion architectures are inherently superior. In …
Automate Amazon EKS troubleshooting using an Amazon Bedrock agentic workflow
As organizations scale their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployments, platform administrators face increasing challenges in efficiently managing multi-tenant clusters. Tasks such as investigating pod failures, addressing resource constraints, and resolving misconfiguration can consume significant time and effort. Instead of spending valuable engineering hours manually parsing logs, tracking metrics, and implementing fixes, teams should …
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Swapping LLMs isn’t plug-and-play: Inside the hidden cost of model migration
Based on hands-on comparisons and real-world tests, this guide unpacks what happens when you switch from OpenAI to Anthropic or Google’s Gemini and what your team needs to watch for.Read More
Marco Rubio Kills State Department Anti-Propaganda Shop, Promises ‘Twitter Files’ Sequel
With the Global Engagement Center shut down, the State Department is now set to investigate whether past US efforts against foreign propaganda amounted to censorship of Americans.
Predicting material failure: Machine learning spots early abnormal grain growth signs for safer designs
A team of Lehigh University researchers has successfully predicted abnormal grain growth in simulated polycrystalline materials for the first time—a development that could lead to the creation of stronger, more reliable materials for high-stress environments, such as combustion engines. A paper describing their novel machine learning method was recently published in Nature Computational Materials.
FocalLens: Instruction Tuning Enables Zero-Shot Conditional Image Representations
This paper was accepted at the Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild at ICLR 2025. Visual understanding is inherently contextual – what we focus on in an image depends on the task at hand. For instance, given an image of a person holding a bouquet of flowers, we may focus on either the person …
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Clario enhances the quality of the clinical trial documentation process with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Kim Nguyen and Shyam Banuprakash from Clario. Clario is a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trials industry, generating high-quality clinical evidence for life sciences companies seeking to bring new therapies to patients. Since Clario’s founding more than 50 years ago, the company’s endpoint data solutions have …