Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

In addition to the examples, Google also has Elo scores from Arena.ai ready to go, showing that users rate Nano Banana 2 Lite ...

Scientists Think This Is the Best Way to Detect AI Slop Imagery

By focusing on six characteristics, the study claims you could reach "near-perfect accuracy" at detecting AI deepfakes.
Wall Street Journal

Irish Data Watchdog Opens Inquiry Into X Over Grok AI Images

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog, the DPC, said it is investigating X over concerns that the social-media platform could be breaching European Union privacy rules. “The DPC has been engaging with ...
GitHub

Flash LiDAR Vehicle Detection with MATLAB Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmarks

This repository provides code and workflows to test several state-of-the-art vehicle detection deep learning algorithms —including YOLOX, SalsaNext, and RandLA-Net— on a Flash Lidar dataset. The ...
IEEE

Language-Informed Hyperspectral Image Synthesis for Imbalanced-Small Sample Classification via Semi-Supervised Conditional Diffusion Model

Abstract: Data augmentation effectively addresses the imbalanced-small sample data (ISSD) problem in hyperspectral image classification (HSIC). Although most methodologies extend features in the ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...
LinkedIn

Real-World Examples of Data Scrubbing in Action

Further, in this newsletter, we will go beyond the basic definitions and highlight the real-life examples, where scrubbing will transform results across various industries. We will also extract ...
LinkedIn

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Space.com

Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'

The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
The Conversation

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...
Nature

Opening doors to physical sample tracking and attribution in Earth and environmental sciences

Physical samples and their associated data and metadata underpin scientific discoveries across disciplines and can enable new science when appropriately archived. However, there are significant gaps ...