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Executives need to make data-driven decisions during live business reviews, where accuracy and speed matter. A conversational agentic AI assistant can meet this need by answering data questions instantly. But the stakes are high: a wrong number or a slow response in front of leadership carries immediate professional consequences, and
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Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training is becoming a standard step in building capable language model agents. Models learn to reason and act across sequences of steps by generating trajectories, receiving rewards, and updating their policy based on outcomes. Running this at scale, across multiple nodes with hundreds of GPU-hours of rollouts
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* New Jersey issues $1.07m fine for failure to obtain permits to run gas generators * DataOne campus running Microsoft's AI was using 62 of them illegally * DataOne "disagree[s]" but has 45 days to obtain the relevant permits A Microsoft partner has been hit with a
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The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale don't discover issues until they appear on an invoice — and by the time an unusual access pattern shows up as a line item, it has often been running
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Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary models like Gemini. So here at Google Cloud, we packaged it into a managed RL fine-tuning service (RLFT service)
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At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, whichachieves up to 3x queries per second (QPS) at microsecond latency compared to Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Our support for
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A new piece of Meta hardware called the Muse Charm puts the brand's Muse AI agent into a portable pendant or keychain. The device debuted at Meta Connect on Wednesday, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased it as part of Meta's push into personal AI hardware. The
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With voice cloning, you can generate new speech in a target speaker’s voice from a short reference recording, without retraining a model. You can now deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time inference endpoint. Voice cloning reproduces the vocal
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their
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We're only a few days from Lanterns' second-to-last episode. Indeed, with the hit sci-fi crime drama's next chapter due out shortly, we don't have much longer to see John Stewart team up with the Hal-O-Gram — aka the digital back-up of Hal Jordan'
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* Watch Italy vs Belgium free on Virgin Media Play (Ireland) * Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) * Kick-off: Fri, Sep 25, 2.45pm ET / 7.45pm BST After missing out on a third consecutive World Cup, Italy are desperate for a positive Nations League campaign. Roberto Mancini is
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