The Live Data in Apps feature allows Amazon Quick applications to query Amazon Quick Sight datasets every time they are opened. According to AWS, the queries are executed with the user's permissions and respect row-level and column-level access restrictions.
The Guided Vision feature is also available in Google TalkBack. On devices running Android 9 and later, an accessibility shortcut can be set up. The audio description of images from the camera helps with reading text and recognizing objects; according to Google, it is not intended for navigation.
The ChatGPT product now lets you virtually try on clothing and accessories using your own photo and save selected products using the Favorites feature. OpenAI announced the global availability of both features.
The computer use feature is in public preview in the GitHub Copilot CLI and GitHub Copilot app tools for macOS and Windows. According to GitHub, it allows control of desktop applications. It requires user consent, and organizations can disable it.
The automations feature in GitHub Copilot in the VS Code editor allows running agent tasks hourly, daily, weekly, or on demand. A task definition can be created from a template or using a custom prompt. The feature is available in preview.
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The US Senate Subcommittee held a hearing on 30 September on cyber threats associated with AI agent-type systems. It invited five witnesses. In his opening statement, Senator Josh Hawley raised the question of manufacturers' liability for damages caused.
The company Tavus has introduced the Griffin model for live audiovisual conversations. According to its study, 48% of participants considered it human after a one-minute call. The Griffin-Lite model is available to selected testers; a more powerful version is to follow after safety questions have been resolved.
Australia is considering two reforms: the right to delete personal data and an obligation for online services to manage foreseeable risks. The protection could also cover people whose data was entered into conversational AI services by someone else.
AWS has published a guide on connecting the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit with the Amazon S3 Vectors service for persistent agent memory. The described solution assumes deployment on Amazon EKS with automatic saving and retrieval of context.
The Ideogram 4.5 model is available on the Ideogram platform and via API. According to Ideogram, it changes only the requested parts of an image. It offers four quality tiers at native 2K resolution for 0.8 to 22 cents per image.
Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation against Google. The plaintiffs claimed that the AI Overviews feature diverts traffic and forces publishers to provide content for free. According to the judge, their claims did not hold up under antitrust law.
The commentary suggests that the main benefit of advanced AI may lie in the routine work needed to realize breakthrough ideas. The ability to carry out these ideas could, according to the text, affect the economy and the pace of progress.
Amazon Payments tested personalized content selection using contextual bandits on Amazon SageMaker AI. In a seven-week A/B test, according to the company, final conversion increased relatively by a higher single-digit percentage for one group; for the other, it did not improve.
The authors of a commentary on the AI Snake Oil website acknowledge that warnings about existential AI risk can be sincere, but consider many of the arguments flawed. They support evidence-based preparation for catastrophic risks and question the benefit of extreme warnings for safety.
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AWS's guide describes a shared subscription for the Claude Platform on AWS service with separation of production and development. For applications in AWS environments it uses SigV4 and cross-account roles, for developers restricted API keys, and for external environments OIDC federation.
The dynamic workflows feature is available in public preview in Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK on all GitHub Copilot plans. It allows defining sequential and concurrent steps and agent involvement in code.
Albertsons Companies uses ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API. According to OpenAI, this speeds up the work of its teams and makes grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
The uniopen platform team adapted the Amazon Nova 2 Lite model for moderation of nine behavior categories and three subject groups. Fixes to the training data are verified by a human, and deployment of changes is subject to regression tests.
In a commentary, Logan Kolas warns that age verification creates stockpiles of sensitive data that could become a target for AI-assisted attacks. He cites a leak of approximately 70 000 documents at a Discord vendor, but does not document the use of AI in this incident.
The Claude for Government product has been in open beta for US federal and state agencies since July. It runs in a FedRAMP High environment, usage-based payments have fixed caps, and sensitive actions require two-person approval.
Photon has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to develop a platform for AI agents in communication services. According to the company, more than 40 000 developers have registered, and revenue grew tenfold over four months.
According to The Verge, resident opposition and political conflict halted the Stratos project, also known as Wonder Valley. The planned AI complex in Utah was to cover 40 000 acres and have a capacity of nine gigawatts. Residents only learned of the plans at a public announcement.
According to the article, the GLM model from the company Zhipu competes with the products Claude and ChatGPT at a fraction of the price. The author anticipates pressure from cheaper open models on the margins of Western AI companies. It does not state specific prices or the model version.
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