How generative AI could help make construction sites safer

To combat the shortcuts and risk-taking, Lorenzo is working on a tool for the San Francisco–based company DroneDeploy, which sells software that creates daily digital models of work progress from videos and images, known in the trade as “reality capture.”  The tool, called Safety AI, analyzes each day’s reality capture imagery and flags conditions that violate…

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What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?

What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out. The alien in question is an animated chatbot known as a Tolan. I created mine a few days ago using an app from a startup called Portola, and we’ve been chatting merrily ever since….

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Google AI announcements from June

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Revolutionizing drug data analysis using Amazon Bedrock multimodal RAG capabilities

In the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology and healthcare companies face an unprecedented challenge for efficiently managing and analyzing vast amounts of drug-related data from diverse sources. Traditional data analysis methods prove inadequate for processing complex medical documentation that includes a mix of text, images, graphs, and tables. Amazon Bedrock offers features like multimodal retrieval, advanced chunking…

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Choosing the right approach for generative AI-powered structured data retrieval

Organizations want direct answers to their business questions without the complexity of writing SQL queries or navigating through business intelligence (BI) dashboards to extract data from structured data stores. Examples of structured data include tables, databases, and data warehouses that conform to a predefined schema. Large language model (LLM)-powered natural language query systems transform how…

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Use Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to build complex AI workflows using Amazon Bedrock Flows

Organizations face the challenge to manage data, multiple artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) tools, and workflows across different environments, impacting productivity and governance. A unified development environment consolidates data processing, model development, and AI application deployment into a single system. This integration streamlines workflows, enhances collaboration, and accelerates AI solution development from concept to…

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What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?

There are dozens of similar copyright lawsuits working through the courts right now, with cases filed against all the top players—not only Anthropic and Meta but Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more. On the other side, plaintiffs range from individual artists and authors to large companies like Getty and the New York Times. The outcomes of…

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Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent

As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 staggeringly high offers to OpenAI staffers, sources say. One…

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