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How River takes security work from a fix to merge

US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.

The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "billions of dollars" in damages from both Microsoft and OpenAI. This week, the Trump administration filed a statement of interest in the case, supporting OpenAI's argument that it's fair use to train a

Co-Designing AI Models Using Speculative Decoding for Faster LLM Inference

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and... This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and offers five guidelines for selecting draft length and draft mechanism across the Pareto frontier. For a discussion of how model design choices impact both throughput and interac

Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness

AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage with AI, we built the Mantis harness to automate the discovery, triage, reproduction, and patching of software vulnerabilities.  Available to all as an open-source framework, Mantis is part of Google’s internal approach to find and fix vulnerabilities at machine-speed. It creates a more effective scalable, context-aware repository analys

Simplify pipelines with new BigQuery identity columns

To further empower our customers in their data journey, we are excited to announce the launch of identity columns in BigQuery. This new feature allows users to define columns that automatically generate sequential 64-bit integer values, simplifying the way you manage unique identifiers within your tables. Data engineers are always looking for ways to make data ingestion smoother and more reliable. BigQuery identity columns offer a powerful, built-in mechanism to automatically generate unique num

Shift-Left Without Losing the Audit Trail: Test Automation for Regulated Surgical Software

In most software, a red test is a bug. On the systems I work on, a red test can be a patient-safety signal. That one difference reshapes almost every decision you make when you sit down to design a quality strategy. I've spent more than a decade in software quality, most of it around medical device software: robotic-assisted surgery, surgical simulation, and clinical education platforms. The engineering is interesting on its own. What makes it genuinely hard is that every test, every pipeline, a