AI could make it easier to create bioweapons that bypass current security protocols

Artificial intelligence is transforming biology and medicine by accelerating the discovery of new drugs and proteins and making it easier to design and manipulate DNA, the building blocks of life. But as with most new technologies, there is a potential downside. The same AI tools could be used to develop dangerous new pathogens and toxins …

Remember when hands and eyes used to be a problem? (Workflow included)

Disclaimer: This is my second time posting this. My previous attempt had its video quality heavily compressed by Reddit’s upload process. Remember back in the day when everyone said AI couldn’t handle hands or eyes? A couple months ago? I made this silly video specifically to put hands and eyes in the spotlight. It’s not …

TASER: Translation Assessment via Systematic Evaluation and Reasoning

We introduce TASER (Translation Assessment via Systematic Evaluation and Reasoning), a metric that uses Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) for automated translation quality assessment. TASER harnesses the explicit reasoning capabilities of LRMs to conduct systematic, step-by-step evaluation of translation quality. We evaluate TASER on the WMT24 Metrics Shared Task across both reference-based and reference-free scenarios, demonstrating …

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Inside the AIPCon 8 Demos Redefining the Future of Enterprise AI

Editor’s Note: AIPCon 8, Palantir’s most recent customer conference, featured breakthrough customer implementations that demonstrate what’s possible with enterprise AI today. In part one of this two-part series, we share highlights from the afternoon’s standout demo sessions. Those who attended AIPCon 8 all walked away with a shared experience — seeing firsthand the power of transformative AI …

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Enhance agentic workflows with enterprise search using Kore.ai and Amazon Q Business

This post was written with Meghana Chintalapudi and Surabhi Sankhla of Kore.ai. As organizations struggle with exponentially growing volumes of data distributed across multiple repositories and applications, employees lose significant time—approximately 30% according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)—searching for information that could be spent on higher-value work. The complexity of modern enterprise data networks …

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Building on the bananas momentum of generative media models on Google Cloud

It’s been exciting to see the capabilities of Nano Banana, our latest image editing model available in Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, go viral. And with transformative workflows like these, it is easy to see why: genmedia bundle carousel 1 Iterative refinement with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image genmedia bundle carousel 2 Context aware conversational editing with …