Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has announced a series of new AI foundation models under a new “Nova” branding that will be available as part of the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS. There are three “understanding” models available now, Amazon says in a blog post: Amazon Nova Micro, a text model … Read more
Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Although generative AI is fueling transformative innovations, enterprises may still experience sharply divided data silos when it comes to enterprise knowledge, in particular between unstructured content … Read more
Eve’s Android app has finally arrived, but it only supports the Eve Thermo at launch. | Image: Eve Systems Eve Systems has finally launched its first Android app — over two years after announcing it was working on one. This week, the once Apple-only smart home device maker launched the Eve for Matter app on … Read more
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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more
Fan tokens change the game for sports engagement and outperform NFTs.
The US Treasury, under a Trump administration, may bring reform to how courts handle crypto mixer-related incidents, following OFAC’s overreach in the Tornado Cash sentencing.
Digital experience interruptions can harm customer satisfaction and business performance across industries. Application failures, slow load times, and service unavailability can lead to user frustration, decreased engagement, and revenue loss. The risk and impact of outages increase during peak usage periods, which vary by industry—from ecommerce sales events to financial quarter-ends or major product launches. … Read more
Today, Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce updates to the inference optimization toolkit, providing new functionality and enhancements to help you optimize generative AI models even faster. These updates build on the capabilities introduced in the original launch of the inference optimization toolkit (to learn more, see Achieve up to ~2x higher throughput while reducing … Read more
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This post was written with Zach Marston and Serg Masis from Syngenta. Syngenta and AWS collaborated to develop Cropwise AI, an innovative solution powered by Amazon Bedrock Agents, to accelerate their sales reps’ ability to place Syngenta seed products with growers across North America. Cropwise AI harnesses the power of generative AI using AWS to … Read more
Long and short position traders alike are in the red Tuesday amid XRP’s rise and dip, plus impact from South Korea’s political upheaval.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Department of Energy preliminarily approved another loan to help fund the construction of electric vehicle battery factories in the US. This time, a joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung SDI will receive $7.54 billion to build two EV battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana. The project … Read more
Though Todd denies it, an HBO documentary recently claimed he was the real Satoshi Nakamoto and inventor of Bitcoin.
It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, streamlining was the goal. At its re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS unveiled SageMaker Unified Studio, a … Read more
A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business. The focus for Q Business is on new integrations that can help businesses bring in more data from third-party tools, the ability for third-party platforms … Read more
Illustration: The Verge Based on testing done by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism researchers, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool has some issues when it comes to responding with the truth. OpenAI launched the tool for subscribers in October, saying it could give “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.” Instead, Futurism points out … Read more
Hive Digital is expanding in Paraguay with a huge Bitcoin mining machine purchase—and helping the government hedge against inflation, it says.
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub Copilot. The focus here is on going beyond code completion and to help developers with a wider range of routine tasks involved in the end-to-end software lifecycle. The service, which … Read more
Walmart just closed its acquisition of popular television maker Vizio in an effort to boost its advertising business. The acquisition was initially reported back in February; however, it took a few months to complete due to the waiting period under federal regulations. The all-cash deal is valued at $2.3 billion. With this strategic move, Walmart … Read more
GitLab, the popular developer and security platform, and AWS, the popular cloud computing and AI service, today announced that they have teamed up to combine GitLab’s Duo AI assistant with Amazon’s Q autonomous agents. The goal here, the two companies say, is to accelerate software innovation and developer productivity, and unlike so many partnerships in … Read more
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Clarifai, once known as the young computer vision startup working with the Pentagon on its controversial Project Maven, has distanced itself from its early years of espousing questionable ideas on AI ethics, its interest in building autonomous weapons — years before Silicon Valley warmed up to defense tech — and its potential cyberbreach from Russia. … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more
Image: Nintendo Though it started out pretty chill, over the years, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp steadily became bloated with monetization. There were all kinds of things to spend real money on, including loot boxes for unlocking rare items. When I logged in to the game last week after months away, my screen was dominated by … Read more
At its re:Invent 2024 conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced a new family of generative AI, multimodal models called Nova. There’s four text-based models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Micro, Lite, and Pro are available today for AWS customers, while Premiere will launch in Q1 2025, Amazon CEO Andy … Read more