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AI: Fueling Online Radicalization

Asio director Mike Burgess warns of social media radicalization, AI exacerbating extremism threat. Social media described as both a goldmine and a cesspit by the head of Australia's peak intelligence agency.

Safely Manage ACL Crawling in Amazon Q Business

Amazon Q Business introduces new ACL toggle feature for administrators to enable/disable ACL crawling for data source connectors. ACL crawling ensures secure and efficient retrieval of content while respecting access control policies, but can be disabled in certain circumstances for regulatory compliance.

Master k-NN Classification with C#

Article summary: Implementing k-NN Classification Using C# in Microsoft MSDN Magazine showcases the simplicity and interpretability of the k-nearest neighbors technique. Despite being sensitive to training data, it offers easy implementation and impressive accuracy results.

Enhancing Telco Q&A with Anthropic's Claude Models

SK Telecom collaborates with AWS GenAIIC to customize Anthropic Claude models for telco-specific Q&A using Amazon Bedrock, enhancing accuracy and knowledge grounding. The partnership aims to provide concise answers, correctly reference links, and maintain SKT's preferred tone and style in responses, utilizing model customization and synthetic data.

NotebookLM: The Future of Podcasting?

NotebookLM introduces Audio Overviews, a feature that transforms any content into engaging podcast-style discussions with AI hosts. Users can easily create personalized study materials and interactive audio summaries with just one click.

China's AI Dominance: Testing Minimax Video Synthesis

AI video synthesis models like Kling and video-01 from Kuaishou Technology and Minimax are pushing boundaries, creating viral AI-generated videos that are reshaping meme culture. Kling, surpassing Sora, can generate high-quality videos from text prompts, still images, or existing videos, sparking controversy and fascination.

Moving on from Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Amazon Lookout for Metrics, a ML anomaly detection service by Amazon, will end support on October 10, 2025. Customers can transition to alternative AWS services like Amazon OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Redshift ML for anomaly detection.