Massachusetts votes to move new privateness rights invoice that bans sale of exact location information

Massachusetts votes to move new privateness rights invoice that bans sale of exact location information

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to move privateness protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their information held by large tech giants. The invoice additionally bans corporations from promoting their customers’ exact location information. Lawmakers within the Massachusetts Home handed the state’s Consumer Data Privacy Act in a unanimous 146-0 vote…

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Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription

Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and…

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Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries

Google Research team has introduced a new agentic RAG framework. It is built into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It powers a feature called Cross-Corpus Retrieval, now in public preview. The target is a known failure mode in enterprise search. Standard single-step RAG was not built for multi-source, multi-hop queries. Ask “What are the specs…

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