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Maintain access and consider alternatives for Amazon Monitron | Amazon Web Services

Maintain access and consider alternatives for Amazon Monitron | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Monitron, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning (ML) service for industrial equipment condition monitoring, will no longer be available to new customers effective October 31, 2024. Existing customers of Amazon Monitron will be able to purchase devices and use the service as normal. We will continue to sell devices until July 2025 and will honor the 5-year device warranty, including service support. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for Amazon Monitron, but we do not plan to introduce new features to Amazon Monitron. This post discusses how customers can maintain access to Amazon Monitron…
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Gemini Live with new voices is now rolling out for free users

Gemini Live with new voices is now rolling out for free users

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. Gemini Live was initially available to Advanced subscribers in August, but Google promised to deliver it to free users as well. Now, Google has started rolling out Gemini Live to folks without a subscription. Google revealed today that Gemini Live is available to all free users but only for Android. It also said that Gemini Live is currently only available in English but that other…
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Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

We don't save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I'm thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was that picture that I saw online the other day? What was that meme?’ I think we'll have to look into it one day.At the moment, though, the Copilot Vision tool is ephemeral. We'll sort of have to experiment over time and see what makes sense…
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Sift Tops in All Fraud Prevention Categories in G2’s Fall 2024 Reports

AI-powered fraud prevention platform outpaces all companies in Fraud Detection, Risk-Based Authentication, and E-commerce Fraud Protection based on hundreds of customer reviews Sift, the AI-powered fraud platform securing digital trust for leading global businesses, today announced that it has achieved the number one ranking in all three fraud prevention-related categories in G2’s Fall 2024 Reports: Fraud Detection, Risk-Based Authentication, and E-commerce Fraud Protection. With thousands of customer reviews fueling G2’s rankings, Sift’s top ranking is based on a number of factors including customer satisfaction, ease of use, and the effectiveness of its fraud prevention solutions. G2 is the world’s largest…
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Apono Raises $15.5M Series A Funding

New capital fuels growth and innovation for company’s cloud access management solution Apono, the leader in privileged access for the cloud, today announced the successful completion of its Series A funding round, raising $15.5 million. The funding round was led by New Era Capital Partners, with participation from Mindset Ventures, Redseed Ventures, Silvertech Ventures, initial seed investors, and more. The newly secured funds will be used to advance Apono’s mission of providing AI-driven, simple, innovative, and secure solutions that organizations need to manage access in complex, distributed cloud environments. Additionally, these newly secured funds will be used to accelerate product development…
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Using task-specific models from AI21 Labs on AWS | Amazon Web Services

Using task-specific models from AI21 Labs on AWS | Amazon Web Services

In this blog post, we will show you how to leverage AI21 Labs’ Task-Specific Models (TSMs) on AWS to enhance your business operations. You will learn the steps to subscribe to AI21 Labs in the AWS Marketplace, set up a domain in Amazon SageMaker, and utilize AI21 TSMs via SageMaker JumpStart. AI21 Labs is a foundation model (FM) provider focusing on building state-of-the-art language models. AI21 Task Specific Models (TSMs) are built for answering questions, summarization, condensing lengthy texts, and so on. AI21 TSMs are available in Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart. Here are the AI21 TSMs that can be accessed and…
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Apple reportedly decides it doesn’t want to invest in OpenAI

Apple reportedly decides it doesn’t want to invest in OpenAI

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. Apple reportedly pulled out of talks to join OpenAI’s funding round, reports the Wall Street Journal, which is poised to be the largest in history, with a whopping $6.5 billion on the table. So, what gives? Was Tim Cook’s crew never that into OpenAI in the first place, or did something spook them? There are a whole bunch of theories flying around, so let’s dig…
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Import a question answering fine-tuned model into Amazon Bedrock as a custom model | Amazon Web Services

Import a question answering fine-tuned model into Amazon Bedrock as a custom model | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. Common generative AI use cases, including but not limited to chatbots, virtual assistants, conversational search, and agent assistants, use FMs to provide responses. Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG) is a technique to optimize the output of FMs by providing context around the questions for these use cases.…
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