Imagen 3 on Vertex AI has been put through its paces by early users, who demand unparalleled quality across diverse artistic styles and formats, strong prompt adherence, and fast image generation. The AI model sets a new standard in quality and versatility, with controls to protect and build trust, including SynthID watermarking and advanced safety filters.

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Magic, a generative AI startup, is partnering with Google Cloud to build two new cloud-based supercomputers to support its mission of developing code assistants with a context window of 100 million tokens. Over 90% of generative AI unicorns and more than half of the world's generative AI startups are building on Google Cloud's infrastructure and platform. The partnership aims to support the development of the next generation of AI applications, models, and tooling.

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mWISE is an annual cybersecurity conference produced by Mandiant, where security practitioners share their experiences and knowledge to strengthen defenses. The conference focuses on sharing information and building a network of peers to rely on. Security leaders and practitioners discuss four key questions, including whether they are thinking about cloud security expertise.

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The company has updated Gemini 1.5 Flash to reduce input costs by up to 85% and output costs by up to 80%, starting August 12th, 2024. The model, which has a 1 million context window and multi-modal inputs, can significantly reduce the cost and latency of long context queries. Additionally, the company is enabling Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro to understand and respond in over 100 languages.

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Mandiant and Google Cloud researchers have witnessed threat actors repurposing digital analytics and advertising tools to evade detection and amplify the effectiveness of their malicious campaigns. These tools include link shorteners, location trackers, CAPTCHAs, and digital advertising platforms.

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Mandiant is releasing details of a suspected Iran-nexus counterintelligence operation aimed at collecting data on Iranians and domestic threats who may be collaborating with intelligence and security agencies abroad, particularly in Israel. The campaign may support the Iranian intelligence apparatus in pinpointing individuals who are interested in collaborating with Iran's perceived adversarial countries.

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Google's enterprise IT teams migrated over 100 vendor-supplied applications to Google Cloud, eliminating low-value work, upskilling the team, and providing more leveraged tools to deliver value-added features to users.

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Google's Data Cloud has announced that Gemini in BigQuery features are now generally available. According to Google's Data and AI Trends Report 2024, 84% of organizations believe that generative AI will expedite their access to insights. The report also states that 52% of non-technical users are already leveraging generative AI to extract valuable insights.

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At the heart of many generative AI use cases are Large Language Models (LLMs), which are pre-trained on massive amounts of data. However, they lack focused knowledge about specific data and businesses, leading to frustrations when used in analytical use cases. For example, LLM-generated definitions may differ from actual business terms, making it essential to ground analytical AI agents with Looker's Trust.

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Warner Bros leverages origin offload strategy to improve scalability, performance, and cost savings for seamless streaming experiences. This strategy involves storing and delivering content from cache servers closer to end users, reducing the load on origin servers.

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