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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Building safer dialogue agents

Introducing Sparrow, a dialogue agent designed to reduce the risk of unsafe and inappropriate answers by providing useful responses and using Google to look up evidence when necessary.

9/22/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Whisper

Discover the power of Whisper in this comprehensive guide.

9/21/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Targeting early-onset Parkinson’s with AI

Using AI to target early-onset Parkinson’s and pave the way for new treatments

9/21/2022
Fly.ioFly.io

Introducing LiteFS

The blogpost introduces 'LiteFS', an open-source distributed file system for SQLite developed by Fly.io. LiteFS extends the capabilities of Litestream by providing fine-grained transactional control, allowing for faster and simpler web apps powered by SQLite without the need for traditional database servers.

9/21/2022
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Whisper

A technical blogpost about Whisper, a neural network for English speech recognition with human level robustness and accuracy.

9/21/2022
DoorDashDoorDash

How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation

This blogpost discusses how DoorDash uses policy automation to ensure velocity and reliability in their infrastructure provisioning.

9/20/2022
ChromiumChromium

Announcing the Launch of the Chrome Root Program

The blogpost announces the launch of the Chrome Root Program, which determines trusted website certificates in Chrome, and discusses the changes and improvements it brings to ensure secure and private connections.

9/19/2022
SoundCloudSoundCloud

SoundCloud Echo: Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage

Exploring the advancements and benefits of SoundCloud's SoundCloud Echo, a Next-Level Humane Registry with Backstage

9/19/2022
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift

This blogpost discusses the challenges and solutions for keeping learning-based control safe by regulating distributional shift in order to ensure reliable and safe interactions between machine learning models and real world systems.

9/19/2022
ChromiumChromium

Speeding up Chrome on Android Startup with Freeze Dried Tabs

How freeze-dried tabs can speed up the startup times of Chrome on Android by more than 20%, providing an interactive preview of a tab on startup.

9/15/2022
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

How our principles helped define AlphaFold’s release

Reflections on the ethical principles guiding the release of AlphaFold, a breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.

9/14/2022
Fly.ioFly.io

Scale-to-Zero Minecraft server with Terraform and Fly Machines

Creating a scale-to-zero Minecraft server using Terraform and Fly Machines

9/14/2022