Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time
Google says it has seen the first evidence of cybercriminals using AI to create a zero-day vulnerability. "Google reported its findings to the unnamed firm affected by the vulnerability before releasing its report," reports Politico. "The company then issued a patch to fix the…


Manufacturing intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings
In this post, we build a multimodal retrieval system for aerospace manufacturing documents using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon S3 Vectors. We evaluate the system on 26 manufacturing queries and compare generation quality between a text-only…

Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models
Baidu's Ernie 5.1 uses just a third of its predecessor's parameters and reportedly cost only six percent of what comparable models require to pre-train. That's possible thanks to a "Once-For-All" approach that extracts smaller sub-models from a single training run. On the Search…