Back in late July, the team was hard at work preparing the first version of the model for launch, squashing pesky bugs and running evaluations. They’d already locked in the technical name — Gemini 2.5 Flash Image — but one critical detail was still missing: a public codename for LMArena. LMArena is a public platform…
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI…
Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed before it could be exploited….
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday night follows global outrage at Grok being used to generate thousands of harmful non-consensual “undressing” photos of women and sexualized images of apparent minors on X….
Enterprises aiming to automate processes using AI agents or enhance employee productivity using AI chat-based assistants need to enforce comprehensive safeguards and audit controls for responsible use of AI and processing of sensitive data by large language models (LLMs). Many have developed a custom generative AI gateway or have adopted an off-the-shelf solution (such as…
Traditional business reporting processes are often time-consuming and inefficient. Associates typically spend about two hours per month preparing their reports, while managers dedicate up to 10 hours per month aggregating, reviewing, and formatting submissions. This manual approach often leads to inconsistencies in both format and quality, requiring multiple cycles of review. Additionally, reports are fragmented…
At Amazon.ae, we serve approximately 10 million customers monthly across five countries in the Middle East and North Africa region—United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, and South Africa. Our AMET (Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye) Payments team manages payment selections, transactions, experiences, and affordability features across these diverse countries, publishing on average five…
Getty Images Babies in the Midlands and North of England are more likely to die before, during or shortly after birth than those in the South, a new study has found. Researchers analysed data from 121 maternity services in England to see which centres repeatedly produced outcomes better or worse than the average between 2013…
Whether you realize it or not, you’re already living in the Chinese century. From batteries to milk to electric vehicles, China is undoubtably doing it better—while the rest of us kick our feet up and watch. China is soaring ahead of the US in a space race called by Trump; China is putting up buildings…
Key Takeaways Serverless shifts security risk from infrastructure to identity, permissions, and configuration, where small design choices can have an outsized impact. Short-lived cloud credentials reduce persistence but remain powerful; when exposed, they enable authenticated access, escalation, and lateral movement. The most damaging serverless breaches stem from routine issues such as public invocation, excessive permissions,…
