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Cloud CISO Perspectives: APAC security leaders speak out on AI and key topics

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2025. Today, Daryl Pereira and Hui Meng Foo, from our Office of the CISO’s Asia-Pacific office, share insights on AI from security leaders who attended our recent Google Cloud CISO Community event in Singapore. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are …

How to ensure high-quality synthetic wireless data when real-world data runs dry

To train artificial intelligence (AI) models, researchers need good data and lots of it. However, most real-world data has already been used, leading scientists to generate synthetic data. While the generated data helps solve the issue of quantity, it may not always have good quality, and assessing its quality has been overlooked.

Bytedance release the full safetensor model for UMO – Multi-Identity Consistency for Image Customization . Obligatory beg for a ComfyUI node 🙏🙏

https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/UMO https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06818 Bytedance have released 3 days ago their image editing/creation model UMO. From their huggingface description: Recent advancements in image customization exhibit a wide range of application prospects due to stronger customization capabilities. However, since we humans are more sensitive to faces, a significant challenge remains in preserving consistent identity while avoiding identity confusion …

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Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer

As generative AI becomes more widespread, it’s important for developers and ML engineers to be able to easily configure infrastructure that supports efficient AI inference, i.e., using a trained AI model to make predictions or decisions based on new, unseen data. While great at training models, traditional GPU-based serving architectures struggle with the “multi-turn” nature …

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RecA: A new finetuning method that doesn’t use image captions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07295 “We introduce Reconstruction Alignment (RecA), a resource-efficient post-training method that leverages visual understanding encoder embeddings as dense “text prompts,” providing rich supervision without captions. Concretely, RecA conditions a UMM on its own visual understanding embeddings and optimizes it to reconstruct the input image with a self-supervised reconstruction loss, thereby realigning understanding and generation.” https://huggingface.co/sanaka87/BAGEL-RecA …

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Reaching Across the Isles: UK-LLM Brings AI to UK Languages With NVIDIA Nemotron

Celtic languages — including Cornish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh — are the U.K.’s oldest living languages. To empower their speakers, the UK-LLM sovereign AI initiative is building an AI model based on NVIDIA Nemotron that can reason in both English and Welsh, a language spoken by about 850,000 people in Wales today. Enabling high-quality …