Cloud Computing

Mandiant M-Trends 2025: 3 key insights for public sector agencies

The cyber defense and threat landscape demands continuous adaptation, as threat actors continue to refine their tactics to breach defenses. While some adversaries are using increasingly sophisticated approaches with custom malware, zero-day exploits, and advanced evasion techniques, it’s crucial to remember that not all successful attacks are complex or sophisticated. Many successful attacks exploit basic […]

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“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents

Douwe Kiela, CEO and cofounder of Contextual AI, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the intricacies of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They discuss its origins, the evolution of AI models, the challenges of hallucinations, and the importance of system design. Douwe emphasizes the need for personalization in ranking systems and the role of synthetic data in

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Text-to-Malware: How Cybercriminals Weaponize Fake AI-Themed Websites

Written by: Diana Ion, Rommel Joven, Yash Gupta Since November 2024, Mandiant Threat Defense has been investigating an UNC6032 campaign that weaponizes the interest around AI tools, in particular those tools which can be used to generate videos based on user prompts. UNC6032 utilizes fake “AI video generator” websites to distribute malware leading to the

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Mistral AI’s Le Chat Enterprise and Mistral OCR 25.05 model are available on Google Cloud

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most open and flexible AI ecosystem for you to build solutions best suited to your needs. Today, we’re excited to announce our expanded AI offerings with Mistral AI on Google Cloud:  Le Chat Enterprise on Google Cloud Marketplace: An AI assistant that offers enterprise search, agent builders,

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Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI

Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are hybrid reasoning models, meaning they offer modes for near-instant responses and extended thinking

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Fast, approximate analytics at scale: Apache DataSketches available in BigQuery

In today’s data-driven world, understanding large datasets often requires numerous, complex non-additive1 aggregation operations. But as the size of the data becomes massive2, these types of operations become computationally expensive and time-consuming using traditional methods. That’s where Apache DataSketches come in. We’re excited to announce the availability of Apache DataSketches functions within BigQuery, providing powerful

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How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI

Confidential Computing has redefined how organizations can securely process their sensitive workloads in the cloud. The growth in our hardware ecosystem is fueling a new wave of adoption, enabling customers to use Confidential Computing to support cutting-edge uses such as building privacy-preserving AI and securing multi-party data analytics.  We are thrilled to share our latest

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How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI

Confidential Computing has redefined how organizations can securely process their sensitive workloads in the cloud. The growth in our hardware ecosystem is fueling a new wave of adoption, enabling customers to use Confidential Computing to support cutting-edge uses such as building privacy-preserving AI and securing multi-party data analytics.  We are thrilled to share our latest

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