The National Health Service (NHS) has delivered universal healthcare to an entire nation for over 75 years. With 1.5 million staff providing care to approximately 57 million patients across hundreds of hospital trusts — using decades old legacy infrastructure — the NHS is one of the most operationally complex organisations on earth. For most of its history, the NHS has …
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Large language models (LLMs) now drive the most advanced conversational agents, creative tools, and decision-support systems. However, their raw output often contains inaccuracies, policy misalignments, or unhelpful phrasing—issues that undermine trust and limit real-world utility. Reinforcement Fine‑Tuning (RFT) has emerged as the preferred method to align these models efficiently, using automated reward signals to replace …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains why Google is multicloud and multi-AI, straight from Next ‘26. 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 …
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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) test-time computing have introduced the capability to perform intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning (thinking) before generating answers. While increasing the thinking budget yields smooth performance improvements at inference time, the relationship between LLM capability, query complexity, and optimal budget allocation remains poorly understood for achieving compute-optimal inference. To address …
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This post was co-written with Yash Munsadwala, Adam Hood, Justin Guse, and Hector Hernandez from PwC. Contract analysis often consumes significant time for legal, compliance, and procurement teams, especially when important insights are buried in lengthy, unstructured agreements. As contract volumes grow, finding specific clauses and assessing extracted terms can become increasingly difficult to scale. …
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The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragmented point solutions, founders are building their businesses here because we offer the entire AI stack in a single, open environment. And, as we saw at Next ‘26 last week, we continue to advance the models, infrastructure, …
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Conditional diffusion models appear capable of compositional generalization, i.e., generating convincing samples for out-of-distribution combinations of conditioners, but the mechanisms underlying this ability remain unclear. To make this concrete, we study length generalization, the ability to generate images with more objects than seen during training. In a controlled CLEVR setting (Johnson et al.,2017), we find …
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The Palantir Ontology Palantir’s software powers real-time, human-agent decision-making in many of the most critical commercial and government contexts around the world. From disaster response to nuclear energy production, our customers depend on Palantir AIP to safely, securely, and effectively leverage AI in their enterprises — and drive operational transformation. While many factors contribute to achieving and scaling …
Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant is increasingly important because users expect faster, more natural interactions. Instead of typing, customers want to speak and understand in real time. Industries like finance, healthcare, education, social media, and retail are exploring solutions with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic to enable natural, real-time speech interactions at scale. …
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At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are generally available or in preview, with more on the way. Why it matters: To move beyond experimental prototypes, AI agents must be able to access real-world data and solve complex problems autonomously. Google-managed Managed Context Protocol (MCP) …
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