🔥 AI and data integrity
Sept. 18, 2025 | Privacy-focused LLM, DeeperDive, and, spotlights
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VaultGemma is introduced as the world's most capable privacy-focused LLM, aiming to prevent data memorization. However, a new threat has emerged in nanomaterials science, where AI-generated fake images are becoming indistinguishable from real ones, posing a risk to research integrity.
In other developments, USA Today has launched DeeperDive, a new chatbot that converses with readers and summarizes its journalism. Tech giants are also pushing for efficiency: Alibaba is previewing a new hybrid MoE architecture for AI models, and Microsoft has made Azure Container Storage seven times faster and open-source for database workloads on Kubernetes.
Additionally, Google has released a new Windows desktop app that brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PCs.
+ The news of this week 🗞️ “Oracle's recent earnings report, despite narrowly missing revenue and earnings per share forecasts, sent shockwaves through the market, causing its stock to surge 36% in a single day—its biggest one-day jump since 1992.” Continue reading here.
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🦾 AI daily pulse
[This is big] VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
As AI becomes more integrated into our lives, building it with privacy at its core is a critical frontier for the field. Differential privacy (DP) offers a mathematically sound solution by adding calibrated noise to prevent memorization. [LINK]
[⚠️] The rising danger of AI-generated images in nanomaterials science and what we can do about it
Generative AI has made it trivial to generate fake microscopy images that are indistinguishable from real images, even for experts. As researchers in nanoscience, it is time for us to face this reality and discuss strategies to conserve the integrity of our discipline. [LINK]Generations in practice: Generative AI to accelerate clinical decision-making
Healthcare teams today span five generations, each with unique expectations for clinical technology. This fireside chat explores how generative AI can unite diverse care teams by enhancing decision-making processes and streamlining workflows for providers at every career stage. [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
[Global media] USA Today enters its gen AI era with a chatbot
DeeperDive, a new tool that converses with readers, is an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game. The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. [LINK][Podcast] Challenging the average with Open-Source AI: Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf is the cofounder and chief science officer of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which provides access to thousands of pretrained AI models that can be downloaded and run locally. With over 10 million users, getting started on the site can be a daunting task. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
[Nvidia] New Open Source Qwen3-next models preview hybrid MoE architecture
As AI models grow larger and process longer sequences of text, efficiency becomes just as important as scale. To showcase what’s next, Alibaba released two new open models, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B-Thinking and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B-Instruct to preview a new hybrid Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with the research and developer community. [LINK]
[Microsoft] Accelerating AI and databases with Azure Container Storage, now 7 times faster and open source
More companies than ever before are choosing to run stateful workloads—such as relational databases, AI inferencing, and messaging queues—on Kubernetes. For developers building on Kubernetes, storage performance has never been more important. [LINK]
🔮 What else
Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC Google’s app can search local files, in Google Drive, and on the web. [LINK]
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