Balenciaga: Demna bids farewell with Hollywood glamour
Bringing down the curtains on a decade of intense creativity, designer Demna bid farewell to…
Keeping the internet free together: State of the Onion Community Day
Fighting for a free internet requires collective action. And the Tor Project is proud to be in the company of many likeminded organizations that work to maintain and restore access to trustworthy information for millions of people globally. Tune into the State of the Onion: Community Day livestream to hear directly from other members of…
How researchers are using Google’s biology AI system AlphaFold
5. Finding new life in Japan’s hot springs While studying microbes in the hot springs of Japan, Dr. Syun-ichi Urayama’s team discovered unusual viruses. Using AlphaFold to predict their protein structures, the team confirmed they belonged to a widespread, previously unknown family of life, revealing a new branch of molecular evolution. These five stories from…
Illuminated – Hearing Aids – BBC Sounds
Available for over a year Like so many people at a similar time of life, the poet Paul Farley is facing up to the fact that he might need hearing aids. His wife has been asking him to turn down the volume on the telly for years, and has given up shouting downstairs for him…
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday. Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED that they began asking…
NHS doctor suspended over alleged antisemitic social media posts
An NHS resident doctor has been suspended by a medical tribunal for 15 months after posting alleged antisemitic comments on social media. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a 31-year-old trainee trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, was also alleged to have expressed support for “violent action and terrorist organisations”. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) said Dr Aladwan’s posts…
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs. Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven’t been publicly identified. But the…
Beyond the technology: Workforce changes for AI
Workplaces are increasingly integrating AI tools into daily operations, with AI assistants supporting teams, predictive analytics informing strategies, and automation streamlining workflows. AI has moved from experimental technology to standard business practice, changing how work gets done. Organizations need to understand what AI can do and how it affects their workforce to implement it successfully….
Evaluate models with the Amazon Nova evaluation container using Amazon SageMaker AI
This blog post introduces the new Amazon Nova model evaluation features in Amazon SageMaker AI. This release adds custom metrics support, LLM-based preference testing, log probability capture, metadata analysis, and multi-node scaling for large evaluations. The new features include: Custom metrics use the bring your own metrics (BYOM) functions to control evaluation criteria for your…
Optimizing Mobileye’s REM™ with AWS Graviton: A focus on ML inference and Triton integration
This post is written by Chaim Rand, Principal Engineer, Pini Reisman, Software Senior Principal Engineer, and Eliyah Weinberg, Performance and Technology Innovation Engineer, at Mobileye. The Mobileye team would like to thank Sunita Nadampalli and Guy Almog from AWS for their contributions to this solution and this post. Mobileye is driving the global evolution toward…
Enhanced performance for Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
You can now achieve significant performance improvements when using Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import, with reduced end-to-end latency, faster time-to-first-token, and improved throughput through advanced PyTorch compilation and CUDA graph optimizations. With Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import you can to bring your own foundation models to Amazon Bedrock for deployment and inference at scale. These…
