Jack Smith Suggests Public Testimony to Fight Trump Investigation ‘Mischaracterizations’

Jack Smith Suggests Public Testimony to Fight Trump Investigation 'Mischaracterizations'

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led several high-profile criminal investigations into Donald Trump, has asked congressional leaders to allow him to testify openly … Read more

A user-controllable framework that unifies style transfer methods

A user-controllable framework that unifies style transfer methods

Neural style transfer is the use of neural networks to transfer the style of an input image – e.g. a famous painting – to another input image – e.g. a backyard photograph. Researchers have proposed a variety of techniques for performing style transfer, but which one works best? There is no right answer to that … Read more

Ten university teams selected for the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

Ten university teams selected for the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

Amazon today announced that ten teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge Year 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that help customers complete tasks that require multiple steps and decisions. The Alexa Prize is a flagship industry-academia collaboration dedicated … Read more

While smearing ‘No Kings’ rallies, Trump and his GOP can’t escape their own ‘Nazi’ problem

While smearing 'No Kings' rallies, Trump and his GOP can't escape their own 'Nazi' problem

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email ReRepublicans suffered a major defeat when one of Donald Trump’s nominees went down in flames on Tuesday. An embarrassing spectacle unfolded over several days on … Read more

Amazon Launches $68 Million AI PhD Fellowship Program

Amazon Launches $68 Million AI PhD Fellowship Program

Today, Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding to more than 100 PhD students at nine universities researching core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing. The goal of the program is to help drive the innovations that will sign the … Read more

Introduction to Chronos-2: From univariate to universal forecasting

Introduction to Chronos-2: From univariate to universal forecasting

Time series forecasting is essential for numerous applications in business, science, and engineering. Recently, fundamental models have led to a paradigm shift in time series forecasting. Unlike statistical models that extrapolate from a single time series, or earlier deep-learning models that were trained on specific tasks, time series foundation models (TSFMs) are trained once on … Read more

FBI investigates ‘suspicious’ chase with line of sight to Trump’s Air Force One landing zone

FBI investigates 'suspicious' chase with line of sight to Trump's Air Force One landing zone

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email The FBI is investigating what appears to be a manhunt aimed directly at the area where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One at Palm … Read more

Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists

Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists

Ming Lin elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Ming Lin, an Amazon Scholar and Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD), was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Lin, who joined Amazon Fashion as a Scholar in 2020, was recognized for his … Read more