Tech barons push for new technologies to solve climate crisis, but fixes already exist. Former Google CEO advocates for AI over climate goals, sparking debate on tech's role in addressing climate change.
AI lobbyists resist regulation due to bipartisan voter distrust; Governor Newsom opposes SB1047 for excluding smaller AI models, advocating for comprehensive regulations instead. Journalist Garrison Lovely questions the decision, highlighting the need for proper oversight in the AI sector.
Generative AI transforms programming by offering intelligent assistance and automation. AWS and SailPoint collaborate to build a coding assistant using Anthropic’s technology on Amazon Bedrock to accelerate SaaS connector development. SailPoint specializes in enterprise identity security solutions, ensuring the right access to resources at the right times.
Google plans to power AI datacentres with nuclear reactors, raising economic, ethical, and environmental concerns. Elon Musk donated $75m to a pro-Trump group, highlighting his role in the 2024 US election.
Monitoring vegetation health is crucial but challenging. Amazon SageMaker's geospatial capabilities offer a streamlined solution, mapping global vegetation in under 20 minutes.
AI and fake newsreaders used by dictatorships to create disinformation videos. Actor Dan Dewhirst discusses unwitting participation in deepfake for authoritarian regime.
Ambience Healthcare, founded by Mike Ng MBA ’16 and Nikhil Buduma ’17, offers an AI-powered platform embedded in EHRs to automate tasks for clinicians, saving 2-3 hours per day on documentation and improving patient care. Used in 40+ institutions like UCSF Health, Ambience helps clinicians focus on patients, not paperwork, leading to lower burnout and better relationships.
Harnessing generative AI and Amazon Bedrock, organizations can simplify, accelerate, and scale cloud migration assessments. By utilizing Amazon Bedrock Agents and Knowledge Bases, a migration assistant application rapidly generates plans, R-dispositions, and cost estimates for AWS migrations, significantly speeding up the planning phase.
Google orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power to power AI. First reactor to be completed by 2030.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a data labeling service by AWS for various data types, supporting generative AI. It offers a self-serve option and SageMaker Ground Truth Plus for managing projects efficiently.
Bria AI introduces advanced image generation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Bria 2.3, 2.2 HD, and 2.3 Fast offer high-quality visuals for various industries, with options for photorealism, high-definition, and speed optimization.
Amazon SageMaker introduces SageMaker Core, a Python SDK for ML lifecycle management. This SDK simplifies tasks with object-oriented interfaces, replacing lengthy JSON dictionaries for a more intuitive developer experience.
Learn to generate new images from existing ones using diffusion models, like in SDEdit, which edits images based on text prompts. This technique simplifies the generation process and improves image reconstruction accuracy.
Amazon Bedrock Agents facilitate generative AI applications by orchestrating tasks, calling APIs, and applying fine-grained access controls. Verified Permissions integrates with agents to provide contextually aware access controls for secure application workflows.
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) helps identify critical data features in large datasets, distinguishing important features from less relevant ones. LDA is a supervised method that reduces dimensionality and explains failure patterns, making it ideal for industrial data analysis.