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Protecting Your AI Travel Agent: A Guide for Amazon Bedrock

Travel companies are integrating generative AI for virtual travel agents, enhancing customer experiences with personalized recommendations and efficient booking processes. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock offer robust safeguards to mitigate risks and enable safe deployment of generative AI technologies, providing industry-leading safety protection and customization options for responsible AI pract...

Unraveling Language Models' Visual Intelligence

MIT researchers found that large language models can understand the visual world and generate complex scenes. By querying LLMs to self-correct code for images, they improved simple drawings and trained a vision system without using visual data.

Revolutionizing Drug Discovery

AI is transforming drug discovery by helping scientists find cost-efficient molecules with desired properties. MIT's SPARROW algorithm streamlines synthesis planning, optimizing costs and experimental steps for new medicines, agrichemicals, and specialized materials.

Revolutionize Finances with AI Email Automation

Businesses can modernize document handling with intelligent automation on AWS, optimizing workflows and enhancing accuracy. AI can revolutionize financial processes by automatically extracting data from emails, reducing costs and improving efficiency.

AI Boom Propels Nvidia to Top Spot

Nvidia surpasses Microsoft and Apple to become world's most valuable company with $3.34tn market cap, driven by AI chip dominance. Shares soar as chipmaker overtakes Apple, solidifying position in tech market.

Cotton Candy Monsters: AI Video Magic

Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha AI video synthesis model, rivaling OpenAI's Sora in quality and generating 10-second clips with improved consistency. Despite budget constraints, Runway impresses with visually stunning video creations from text prompts, showcasing significant advancements in visual fidelity.

AI silencing angry customers at Softbank

SoftBank is developing AI-powered "emotion-canceling" tech to alter angry customer voices for calmer calls with customer service. The project aims to reduce operator stress, with plans for launch by March 2026, sparking mixed reactions online.

Shadow Modeling Unveils Hidden Objects in 3D Scenes

MIT and Meta researchers develop PlatoNeRF, a computer vision technique using shadows and machine learning to create accurate 3D models of scenes, improving autonomous vehicles and AR/VR efficiency. Combining lidar and AI, PlatoNeRF offers new opportunities for reconstructions and will be presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.