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Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confluence. However, these knowledge sources contain sensitive information governed by complex permission structures. Making sure that AI-generated answers respect those permissions is one of the hardest challenges in

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Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut

If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: the company on Wednesday announced that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated iPad app. That’s a milestone it took Instagram some 15 years to reach, despite constant user demand.

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Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C

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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification

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ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the same playbook as social media companies: designing products that keep

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Dread Dark Web Forum Hijacked, Operators Claim Control of Domain Keys

Dread, one of the best-known Tor-based discussion forums used by dark web market communities and cybercrime watchers, appears to have been hijacked by unknown operators who claim to control the project’s domain keys. Hackread.com accessed Dread and captured screenshots showing a new pinned post titled “So, Dread has

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Google Is Taking Gemini Flash and Pro Away From Free Users—and Some Paid Plans

Starting October 9, Google will restrict access to Gemini's Flash and Pro models for users without a paid AI subscription. Free users of the Gemini app will only have access to Flash-Lite, its quicker, lightweight model, according to an updated Google support document. To be clear, Google isn&

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Stop RAG quality from slipping: build a regression gate before you ship

A team builds a retrieval-augmented chatbot over the company’s internal policy documents. In the demo, someone asks “how many days of parental leave do we get?” and the bot answers correctly, citing the right PDF. Someone asks about expense limits – correct again. Ten questions, ten good answers, applause, ship

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Arcana Unleashed is an incredible Dungeons & Dragons expansion, but these Prime Day deals make it much easier to…

I’ve been playing with Arcana Unleashed for the past month, and the latest Dungeons & Dragons gameplay expansion is exquisite. Easily the best released since the game’s Fifth Edition refresh in 2024, and this week might be the best time to grab this book if you haven’t

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MSI's Katana 15 HX and Crosshair A16 HX laptops are both over $400 off for Amazon Prime Day — but I'm…

Choosing between two creative laptops becomes much easier when they share many of the same core specifications but have different prices. That's exactly the situation with two MSI laptops which have been discounted for Amazon Prime Day. • Best for: I'd choose the MSI Katana 15 HX

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Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let's Ask SemiAnalysis — With Dylan Patel and Jordan Nanos The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Channels with Peter

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X expands its ‘Gametime’ sports hub beyond the NFL, starting with MLB

X is doubling down on sports, with Wednesday’s news that it’s expanding its “Gametime” feature on the social media site to go beyond tracking the NFL alone. First announced in August, NFL Gametime is X’s new project that offers a single hub for tracking live scores, getting

Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut

Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification

ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

Dread Dark Web Forum Hijacked, Operators Claim Control of Domain Keys

Google Is Taking Gemini Flash and Pro Away From Free Users—and Some Paid Plans

Stop RAG quality from slipping: build a regression gate before you ship

Arcana Unleashed is an incredible Dungeons & Dragons expansion, but these Prime Day deals make it much easier to…

MSI's Katana 15 HX and Crosshair A16 HX laptops are both over $400 off for Amazon Prime Day &mdash; but I'm…

Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November

X expands its ‘Gametime’ sports hub beyond the NFL, starting with MLB

MSI's Katana 15 HX and Crosshair A16 HX laptops are both over $400 off for Amazon Prime Day — but I'm…