The future of filmmaking is being defined by a new kind of creative partnership: artists experimenting with AI, iterating, and bringing ambitious visions to life. For the past year, Google has worked side-by-side with filmmakers to explore ways to advance and enhance artistic processes with generative AI. But we’ve also heard a clear message: for…
We are excited to announce the general availability of multimodal retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This new capability adds native support for video and audio content, on top of text and images. With it you can build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications that can search and retrieve information across text, images, audio, and video—all…
Persistence, dMSA Abuse & RCE Goodies This week, we have received a lot of contributions from the community, such as h00die, Chocapikk and countless others, which is greatly appreciated. This week’s modules and improvements in Metasploit Framework range from new modules, such as dMSA Abuse (resulting in escalation of privilege in Windows Active Directory environments), authenticated and unauthenticated…
Models: The underlying AI systems that interpret prompts, generate responses, and make predictions Tools: The integration layer that connects AI to enterprise systems, such as APIs, protocols, and connectors Context: Before making decisions, information agents need to understand the full business picture, including customer histories, product catalogs, and supply chain networks Governance: The policies, controls,…
A doctor has appeared in court accused of more than 40 counts of sexual assault against hospital patients including children. The charges faced by Nathaniel Spencer on Tuesday relate to 38 patients at Royal Stoke University Hospital and Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, between 2017 and 2021. The 38-year-old of Great Hampden Street, Birmingham, appeared at…
“There are better uses for a PhD student than waiting around in a lab until 3am to make sure an experiment is run to the end,” says Ant Rowstron, ARIA’s chief technology officer. ARIA picked 12 projects to fund from the 245 proposals, doubling the amount of funding it had intended to allocate because of…
Available for over a year James Gallagher stands by four lanes of traffic and inhales exhaust fumes all to see if he can see air pollution in his body. He looks at an intriguing finding that an mRNA vaccine might benefit people being treated with immunotherapy for some cancers and could we be on the…
Getty Images “There was definitely a moment of discomfort at the start,” says Deena, but she says her visit to a so-called rage room felt very different to what she’d expected. She didn’t feel chaotic or aggressive smashing things up, but instead “surprisingly controlled and a lot more intentional”. “Once I settled into it, it…
Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who’s 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone when she saw Charlie. She was deep in an otome game, a romance-driven video game where women are the protagonists. Charlie was a character. Some otome players date multiple men simultaneously, but Gu fell for…
But language models can only do so much, and what robots need most urgently is a new kind of model that understands the physical world the way an LLM understands the written word. And to build that model, engineers need way more data. While walking around BAAI, I see scores of workers behind desks. They’re…
