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Google DeepMind Enhances AMIE for Long-Term Disease Management
Google DeepMind has extended the capabilities of its Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) beyond diagnosis to support longitudinal disease management. The system is now designed to assist clinicians in monitoring disease progression, adjusting treatments, and adhering to clinical guidelines across multiple patient visits.
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Google Enhances AlloyDB Vector Search with Inline Filtering and Enterprise Observability
Google enhanced its AlloyDB service with inline filtering and enterprise observability for vector search. This fully-managed PostgreSQL-compatible database now allows direct filtering during queries, offering improved speed and efficiency. Enhanced monitoring features provide deep insights, addressing scaling vector search operations challenges.
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Google Cloud Launches Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Google Cloud has announced the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases, an open-source server developed in collaboration with LangChain. This new tool is designed to help developers seamlessly integrate production-grade, agent-based generative AI applications with databases while ensuring secure access, scalability, and observability.
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Google Cloud Introduces Quantum-Safe Digital Signatures in Cloud KMS to Future-Proof Data Security
Google has introduced quantum-safe digital signatures in its Cloud Key Management Service, adhering to NIST post-quantum cryptography standards. This vital update counters the imminent threats of quantum computing on traditional encryption methods, enabling organizations to integrate resilient, future-proof security measures seamlessly.
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Google Gemini's Long-term Memory Vulnerable to a Kind of Phishing Attack
AI security hacker Johann Rehberger described a prompt injection attack against Google Gemini able to modify its long-term memories using a technique he calls delayed tool invocation. The researcher described the attack as a sort of social engineering/phishing attack triggered by the user interacting with a malicious document.
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Google Releases Spanner Graph into General Availability
Google Cloud's Spanner Graph is now generally available, featuring enhancements like Graph Notebook, GraphRAG integration, and advanced schema management. This unified database combines graph, relational, and AI capabilities, ensuring high availability and scalability. Ideal for real-time analysis, it transforms use cases like fraud detection and recommendation engines.
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Gemini 2.0 Family Expands with Cost-Efficient Flash-Lite and Pro-Experimental Models
Announced last December, the Gemini 2.0 family of models now has a new member, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, which Google says is cost-optimized for large scale text output use cases and is now available in preview. Along with Flash-Lite, Google also announced Gemini 2.0 Pro.
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Google's Vertex AI in Firebase SDK Now Ready for Production Use
Three months after its launch in beta, the Vertex AI in Firebase SDK is now ready for production, says Google engineer Thomas Ezan, who further explores three dimensions that are essential for its successful deployment to production: abuse prevention, remote configuration, and responsible AI use.
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Google Releases Experimental AI Reasoning Model
Google has introduced Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, an AI reasoning model available in its AI Studio platform.
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Android Studio Ladybug Update Adds Gemini Support, New Debugging Features, and More
In its recent update to Android Studio Ladybug (2024.2.2), Google has added new Gemini Code Transforms to modify, refactor, or create code, debugging and testing tools, and developer experience improvements. Additionally, the IDE adopts the latest IntelliJ 2024.2 platform release.
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Google Expands Gemini Code Assist with Support for Atlassian, GitHub, and GitLab
Google recently announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, including Atlassian Rovo, GitHub, GitLab, Google Docs, Sentry, and Snyk. The private preview enables developers to test the integration of widely-used software tools with the personal AI assistant directly within the IDE.
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Flutter 3.27 Promotes New Rendering Engine Impeller, Improves iOS and Material Widgets, and More
Flutter 3.27, brings a wealth of changes, including better adherence to Apple's UI Guidelines thanks to a number of improved Cupertino widgets, new features for CarouselView, list rows and columns, ModalRoutes transitions, and so on. Furthermore, the new release makes the Impeller rendering engine the default, with improved performance, instrumentation support, concurrency support, and more.
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Google Cloud Launches Sixth Generation Trillium TPUs: More Performance, Scalability and Efficiency
Google Cloud's Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, is now available. It enhances AI workloads with unmatched performance and 67% better energy efficiency. Integral to the AI Hypercomputer, Trillium boasts training speeds over 4x faster and triples inference throughput. This leap positions Google as a contender against Nvidia in the AI data center market.
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Google Launches Android XR, Its New AI-Powered Extended Reality Platform
Android XR is Google's new operating system aimed at powering devices like headsets and glasses and making possible new experiences, a.k.a. apps, running on them. Android XR will integrate Gemini, Google's AI assistant, to enable understanding user intent, defining a plan, guiding through tasks, and more.
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Exploring Factors that Drive Software Engineering Productivity
Understanding what drives software development productivity is the key to making high-impact investments in engineering productivity, Emerson Murphy-Hill said at QCon San Francisco. He presented the results of their investigation into factors that predict developer productivity and shared what they learned from exploring inequities in software engineering.