STARFlow2: Bridging Language Models and Normalizing Flows for Unified Multimodal Generation

Unified multimodal models that understand, reason over, and generate interleaved text–image sequences remain structurally fragmented: existing approaches either sacrifice visual fidelity through discrete tokenization, impose structural asymmetry by combining causal text generation with iterative diffusion-based denoising, or degrade pretrained understanding when adapting vision-language models for generation. We observe that autoregressive normalizing flows are autoregressive Transformers—sharing …

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Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps

Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The part that still takes time is verification. You read the agent’s text summary, open your observability tools in a browser, navigate to the trace waterfall, check the service map to scope impact, and cross-reference what …

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that changes constantly. The work thrives on nuanced, professional judgment — and the systems supporting it inherit real obligations: ethical walls that cannot be …

Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning

Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments. By generating intermediate reasoning images, Visual CoT provides an intuitive mechanism for visual foresight but introduces substantial inference overhead, which is particularly problematic for proactive video reasoning. We ask whether models can learn to think visually during …

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Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod

Today, we are announcing new Ray capabilities on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that integrate Ray with the HyperPod purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model training and serving. Ray is an open-source framework that data scientists use to scale distributed Python workloads across clusters of GPUs, from distributed training with Ray Train to model serving with Ray Serve. …

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Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic models, and validating compliance. The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) on AWS is designed to significantly accelerate that timeline. It’s a reference architecture built on Amazon Bedrock and your AI coding tool of choice. Specialized …

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and …

Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions

Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is critical for building high-performing multilingual language models for languages with insufficient training data. When target language data is scarce, the knowledge required for many downstream tasks involving scientific reasoning, commonsense inference, and world knowledge must be acquired primarily from the high-resource language, making effective knowledge transfer essential. Existing methods for improving …

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Securing Software at the Speed of AI

Lessons from building an agentic software security strategy at Palantir Introduction Palantir’s Product Security Team began experimenting with agentic AI across a variety of security workflows over a year ago. By the time Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, we were already using an internal multi-agent review harness with AI security agents focused on different areas of security …