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 …

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Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock in more than 25 AWS Regions, with cross-Region inference. Three GPT-5.6 variants support cross-Region inference, Sol, Terra, and Luna, each tuned for a different balance of capability and cost. Cross-Region inference (CRIS) in Amazon Bedrock works …

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Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers

Since announcing Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at I/O in May, we’ve heard helpful feedback from our customers. Your developers want easy access to coding agents across surfaces. Your enterprise governance team wants security controls and license management. And your finance team wants pooled usage so that no prepaid token ever goes unused. …

Examining Human-Like Behaviors in LLMs: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Model Behaviors, User Factors, and System Prompts

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a wide range of human-like behaviors, from expressing thoughts and emotions, to engaging in relationship-building with users, to refusing requests and maintaining boundaries. Despite their prevalence, researchers and practitioners lack methods and empirical insights to make informed decisions about when and what types of human-like behaviors LLMs should exhibit. To …