Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
How Pattern PXM’s Content Brief is driving conversion on ecommerce marketplaces using AI
Brands today are juggling a million things, and keeping product content up-to-date is at the top of the list. Between decoding the endless requirements of different marketplaces, wrangling inventory across channels, adjusting product listings to catch a customer’s eye, and trying to outpace shifting trends and fierce competition, it’s a lot. And let’s face it—staying …
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Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI
In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.Read More
A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC
More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause.
A springtail-like jumping robot
Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the boundaries of what small robots can do. The research glimpses a future where nimble microrobots can crawl through tiny spaces, skitter across dangerous ground, and …
Self-driving cars learn to share road knowledge through digital word-of-mouth
An NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a way for self-driving vehicles to share their knowledge about road conditions indirectly, making it possible for each vehicle to learn from the experiences of others even when they rarely meet on the road.
Start building with Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is now generally available in the Gemini API for production use in Google AI Studio and for enterprise customers on Vertex AI
MIA-Bench: Towards Better Instruction Following Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs
We introduce MIA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their ability to strictly adhere to complex instructions. Our benchmark comprises a diverse set of 400 image-prompt pairs, each crafted to challenge the models’ compliance with layered instructions in generating accurate responses that satisfy specific requested patterns. Evaluation results from …
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Empowering the Warfighter: Palantir’s Partnership with Microsoft
Promoting Army readiness through seamless coordination between Palantir-powered Army Vantage platform and Microsoft Power BI Better Together As the Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly relies on software and data to drive mission readiness and operations, the need for cutting-edge, interoperable technology solutions has never been more critical. Data interoperability should be the cornerstone for informed decision-making …
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How IDIADA optimized its intelligent chatbot with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Xavier Vizcaino, Diego Martín Montoro, and Jordi Sánchez Ferrer from Applus+ Idiada. In 2021, Applus+ IDIADA, a global partner to the automotive industry with over 30 years of experience supporting customers in product development activities through design, engineering, testing, and homologation services, established the Digital Solutions department. This strategic move …
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