Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details
AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgements in some settings. For instance, resume screening algorithms are often used in hiring, where they may improve efficiency and consistency in decision-making. But some scholars have raised concerns that the adoption of automated systems could eventually result in one algorithm being used to make all decisions in a
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Who we become when we talk to machines
Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses. Brian spent years on the road for work earlier in his career, has never married, and recently broke up with
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Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI’s Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work to the Bedrock model catalog. It offers a 500K token context window and supports configurable reasoning effort at four levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh. Grok 4.7 is served on the bedrock-runtime endpoint through
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model suited for focused coding and knowledge work with lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Amazon Bedrock gives you Sonnet 5.5 capabilities while
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Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
Voice agents, interactive learning applications, accessibility tools, and customer service assistants need to respond without long silent pauses. In this tutorial, you deploy a text-to-speech (TTS) model on Amazon SageMaker AI that can start playing speech before it finishes generating the full response. You use the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC) to deploy Qwen3-TTS,
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Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2
In this post, you turn a text prompt into an image, then animate that image into a short video on Amazon SageMaker AI. You deploy two endpoints from the same AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container (DLC): a real-time endpoint for FLUX.2-klein-4B image generation and an asynchronous endpoint for Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B video generation. The workflow sends a
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Implementing synthetic monitoring using Amazon Nova Act
Synthetic monitoring emulates real user journeys through automated transactions. Rather than waiting for customers to encounter problems, teams continuously validate critical workflows (logins, purchases, form submissions) on a scheduled basis. With this approach, you detect problems faster when performance degrades or UI interactions break. For customer-facing businesses, especially in ecommerce, synthetic monitoring safeguards interactions that
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Automating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts
Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and structured data from scanned documents. Organizations use Amazon Textract to automate document processing workflows such as invoice processing, mortgage application intake, insurance claim handling, and identity verification, eliminating manual data entry and accelerating downstream decision-making. Amazon Textract
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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
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