Activation steering has emerged as a powerful method for guiding the behavior of generative models towards desired outcomes such as toxicity mitigation. However, most existing methods apply interventions uniformly across all inputs, degrading model performance when steering is unnecessary. We introduce Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering (DSAS), a method-agnostic steering framework that decouples when to steer …
Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team Recent work on the Java language to pave the on-ramp has made it easier than ever to start a Java program and evolve it using the full language and platform. At the end of …
Generative AI inference is uniquely hard: models are tens to hundreds of gigabytes, latency requirements are measured in tokens per second, cold starts can span multiple minutes as containers and weights transfer, GPU capacity is constrained, and traditional monitoring tools expose none of the token-level signals that matter in production. Amazon SageMaker AI offers customers …
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AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations. To meet these challenges, the Google AI and Infrastructure team is transforming how we approach security. In this article, we discuss new AI-native agentic methods that we’ve developed …
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A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend on underlying environmental reversibility, a property absent in real world manipulation, where events such as pushing objects off tables or spilling granular substances cannot be undone. We introduce REVERSAL-BENCH, a benchmark that controls reversibility via a …
Hiring at scale in industries such as retail, logistics, hospitality, and others has its fair share of challenges. Recruiting teams are expected to fill hundreds of roles within tight timelines, often with limited capacity and with tools that weren’t designed to seamlessly work together. As a result of this, applications pile up, phone screens get …
Read more “Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent”
At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cleaning up cloud spend together. There’s a leaderboard. There are goodies on the line. Experienced practitioners guide the newcomers, so people learn the work while doing it. By the end of the …
Read more “How Orange built FinOps accountability, and why agents are next”
Agentic LLM systems that generate code through multi-turn tool use face a fundamental context problem: each session starts from zero, discarding the configuration choices, domain constraints, data schemas, and tool-use patterns that made previous sessions productive. Naively persisting entire conversation histories is both token-inefficient and counterproductive—irrelevant context degrades generation quality. We introduce shared selective persistent …
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AI agents built on foundation models (FMs) often misapply healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) decision frameworks, even when they’ve seen the guidelines in training and in the system prompt. Ask an agent to classify a TP53 missense variant using ACMG/AMP criteria. It will cite the correct framework but misapply evidence categories, skip population frequency thresholds, …
Read more “Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills”
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop them. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading …
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