Fintechs turn to AI and cloud as steadfast forces for innovation
The rapidly evolving fintech landscape is witnessing a remarkable transformation, driven by advancements in leveraging both artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies. With customers top of mind, we are seeing fintechs increasingly harness the power of choice and flexibility that comes with hybrid multicloud and lean into the power of data analytics to deliver …
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Build a centralized monitoring and reporting solution for Amazon SageMaker using Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) platform that offers a comprehensive set of services that serve end-to-end ML workloads. As recommended by AWS as a best practice, customers have used separate accounts to simplify policy management for users and isolate resources by workloads and account. However, when more users and teams are …
What is a phishing simulation?
A phishing simulation is a cybersecurity exercise that tests an organization’s ability to recognize and respond to a phishing attack. A phishing attack is a fraudulent email, text or voice message designed to trick people into downloading malware (such as ransomware), revealing sensitive information (such as usernames, passwords or credit card details) or sending money …
Advances in document understanding
Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research, Athena Team The last few years have seen rapid progress in systems that can automatically process complex business documents and turn them into structured objects. A system that can automatically extract data from documents, e.g., receipts, insurance quotes, and financial statements, has the potential to dramatically improve …
Generate creative advertising using generative AI deployed on Amazon SageMaker
Creative advertising has the potential to be revolutionized by generative AI (GenAI). You can now create a wide variation of novel images, such as product shots, by retraining a GenAI model and providing a few inputs into the model, such as textual prompts (sentences describing the scene and objects to be produced by the model). …
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Cloud Speech-to-Text V2 API and Chirp are now Generally Available with new lower pricing tier
As one of the most innate and ubiquitous forms of expression, speech is a fundamental pillar of human interaction. It comes as no surprise, then, that Google Cloud’s Speech API has become a crucial tool for enterprise customers, launched to general availability (GA) over six years ago and, now, processing over 1 billion voice minutes …
500 days of Homes for Ukraine: a data-driven humanitarian operation
When Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th February 2022, the view of experts was that Russian President Vladimir Putin expected the war to be over in a few days. Yet Putin failed to anticipate the resilience of the Ukrainian people and the determination of their allies, such as the United Kingdom, to help. An early example is …
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Better together: IBM and Microsoft make enterprise-wide transformation a reality
IBM® and Microsoft—the two largest global IT companies—are working together. While many may see IBM and Microsoft as competitors, we are much better partners bringing the best of both companies together to accelerate impact and influence at scale. We provide current and new clients the unique opportunity to take advantage of the combined value from …
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AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write
Posted by Fuzhao Xue, Research Intern, and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientist, Google Adaptive computation refers to the ability of a machine learning system to adjust its behavior in response to changes in the environment. While conventional neural networks have a fixed function and computation capacity, i.e., they spend the same number of FLOPs for processing …
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