Tag: Region

  • Cloud Blog: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-innovations-in-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation Feedly Summary: Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Hochul Weighs Legislation Limiting A.I. and More Than 100 Other Bills

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/nyregion/hochul-ai-bills-ny.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Hochul Weighs Legislation Limiting A.I. and More Than 100 Other Bills Feedly Summary: A bill passed by the New York State Legislature to regulate the state’s use of artificial intelligence is among more than 100 that await Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision. AI Summary and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" Feedly Summary: Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it’s Google’s snappily named gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, their first entrant into the o1-style inference scaling class of models. I posted about a great essay about the significance of these just this morning. From…

  • AWS News Blog: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/stable-diffusion-3-5-large-is-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: Unleash your creativity: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock generates stunning high-resolution images with superior detail, style variety, and prompt adherence for accelerated visual content creation. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Cloud Blog: What’s new for Google Cloud databases — December 2024

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/whats-new-for-databases-december-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new for Google Cloud databases — December 2024 Feedly Summary: As the year winds down and we gather around the (digital) fireplace, the excitement around Google Cloud databases is ramping up! It’s been a busy season of innovation and customer success, and we’ve got a sack full…

  • AlgorithmWatch: Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections

    Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/llms_state_elections/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections Feedly Summary: Large language models continue to be unreliable for election information. Our research was able to substantially improve the reliability of safeguards in the Microsoft Copilot chatbot against election misinformation in German. However barriers to data access greatly restricted…

  • Hacker News: GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot

    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/github-launches-a-free-version-of-its-copilot/ Source: Hacker News Title: GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** GitHub has launched a free version of its Copilot code completion tool, aimed at occasional developers, and it is now integrated by default into Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor. This…

  • Cloud Blog: How Memorystore helps FanCode stream 2X more live sports

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/fancode-migrates-from-aws-to-memorystore-for-redis-cluster/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Memorystore helps FanCode stream 2X more live sports Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: FanCode needed to deliver low-latency, personalized sports content to millions of fans while scaling rapidly. By migrating to Google Cloud and adopting Memorystore for Redis Cluster, FanCode built a fully integrated, scalable backend infrastructure that…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud and SAP: Powering AI with enterprise data

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/sap-google-cloud/the-case-for-running-rise-with-sap-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud and SAP: Powering AI with enterprise data Feedly Summary: As the 2027 end of support for SAP Business Suite 7 approaches, SAP customers need to decide where to deploy as they upgrade to cloud-based S/4HANA and RISE with SAP. This represents a great opportunity to get…

  • Hacker News: US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers

    Source URL: https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/business/us-could-ban-chinese-made-tp-link-routers-over-hacking-fears-report/ Source: Hacker News Title: US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses ongoing investigations by US federal agencies into TP-Link, a major Chinese manufacturer of internet routers, due to cybersecurity concerns. Investigators allege that TP-Link has failed to address vulnerabilities in its products,…