ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups have come together to call for more to be done to monitor how AI …
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LTXV Just Unlocked Native 60-Second AI Videos
LTXV is the first model to generate native long-form video, with controllability that beats every open source model. 🎉 30s, 60s and even longer, so much longer than anything else. Direct your story with multiple prompts (workflow) Control pose, depth & other control LoRAs even in long form (workflow) Runs even on consumer GPUs, just …
Revisiting k-Means: 3 Approaches to Make It Work Better
The k-means algorithm is a cornerstone of unsupervised machine learning, known for its simplicity and trusted for its efficiency in partitioning data into a predetermined number of clusters.
Accenture scales video analysis with Amazon Nova and Amazon Bedrock Agents
This post was written with Ilan Geller, Kamal Mannar, Debasmita Ghosh, and Nakul Aggarwal of Accenture. Video highlights offer a powerful way to boost audience engagement and extend content value for content publishers. These short, high-impact clips capture key moments that drive viewer retention, amplify reach across social media, reinforce brand identity, and open new …
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Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden
In our ongoing effort to provide businesses with the flexibility and choice needed to build innovative AI applications, we are expanding the catalog of open models available as Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings in Vertex AI Model Garden. Following the addition of Llama 4 models earlier this year, we are announcing DeepSeek R1 is available for everyone …
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Claude Code revenue jumps 5.5x as Anthropic launches analytics dashboard
Anthropic has launched a powerful analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI assistant, giving engineering leaders real-time insights into developer productivity, tool usage, and ROI on AI coding investments.Read More
Can US Measles Outbreaks Be Stopped?
The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.
Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines
Today’s robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically “grow,” “heal,” and improve themselves by integrating material from their environment or from other robots.
I’ve made some sampler comparisons. (Wan 2.1 image generation)
Hello, last week I shared this post: Wan 2.1 txt2img is amazing!. Although I think it’s pretty fast, I decided to try different samplers to see if I could speed up the generation. I discovered very interesting and powerful node: RES4LYF. After installing it, you’ll see several new sampler and scheluder options in the KSampler. …
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