Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Enrique Alvarez, public sector advisor, Office of the CISO, explores how government agencies can use AI to improve threat detection — and save money at the same time. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google …
Alibaba’s QwenLong-L1 helps LLMs deeply understand long documents, unlocking advanced reasoning for practical enterprise applications.Read More
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.
As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work? Bridging the gap between promise and practice, Jann Spiess, an associate professor of operations, information, and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business, is exploring how algorithms can be designed to most effectively support—rather than replace—human decision-makers.
Text: FLUX.1 Kontext launched today. Just the closed source versions out for now but open source version [dev] is coming soon. Here’s something I made with a simple prompt ‘clean up the car’ You can read about it, see more images and try it free here: https://runware.ai/blog/introducing-flux1-kontext-instruction-based-image-editing-with-ai submitted by /u/felixsanz [link] [comments]
Quantization is a frequently used strategy applied to production machine learning models, particularly large and complex ones, to make them lightweight by reducing the numerical precision of the model’s parameters (weights) — usually from 32-bit floating-point to lower representations like 8-bit integers.
We’re extending Gemini to become a world model that can make plans and imagine new experiences by simulating aspects of the world.
With the increasing integration of speech front-ends and large language models (LLM), there is a need to explore architectures that integrate these modalities. While end-to-end models have been explored extensively, cascaded models that stream outputs from LLMs to TTS seem to be oddly under-explored, even though they are potentially much simpler. Using traditional text-to-speech systems …
Read more “SpeakStream: Streaming Text-to-Speech with Interleaved Data”
Emerging transformer-based vision models for geospatial data—also called geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs)—offer a new and powerful technology for mapping the earth’s surface at a continental scale, providing stakeholders with the tooling to detect and monitor surface-level ecosystem conditions such as forest degradation, natural disaster impact, crop yield, and many others. GeoFMs represent an emerging research …
Read more “Revolutionizing earth observation with geospatial foundation models on AWS”
Want to turn your generative AI ideas into real web applications with one click? Any developer knows it’s a complex process to build shareable, interactive applications: you have to set up infrastructure, wire APIs, and build a front-end. It’s usually a complex process. What if you could skip the heavy lifting and turn your generative …
Read more “Create shareable generative AI apps in less than 60 seconds with Vertex AI and Cloud Run”