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Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI
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Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy BoltzGen on SageMaker AI and run an end-to-end protein design experiment. By the end of the walkthrough, you have a w…

Simplify model selection in Amazon Bedrock with the open source Model Profiler
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Simplify model selection in Amazon Bedrock with the open source Model Profiler

The Amazon Bedrock Model Profiler is an open source tool that aggregates model metadata from multiple AWS APIs and external sources into a single, searchable in…

How Inscribe uses Amazon Bedrock to stop document fraud in seconds
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How Inscribe uses Amazon Bedrock to stop document fraud in seconds

In this post, you will learn how Inscribe developed an agentic AI system using Amazon Bedrock that reasons across documents the way an expert fraud analyst woul…

HippoRAG: Neurobiologically inspired RAG using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Neptune, and personalized PageRank
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HippoRAG: Neurobiologically inspired RAG using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Neptune, and personalized PageRank

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement HippoRAG using a comprehensive AWS stack. We use Amazon Bedrock for LLM capabilities, Amazon Neptune for graph dat…

Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory
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Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory

In this post, you will learn how metadata works across configuration, ingestion, and retrieval, explore enterprise use cases including multi-agent and multi-ten…

Trust you can verify: Figma is now ISO 42001 certified
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Trust you can verify: Figma is now ISO 42001 certified

Lights, camera, algorithm: How AI is rewriting the rules of film and TV
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Lights, camera, algorithm: How AI is rewriting the rules of film and TV

Artificial intelligence is reshaping film and TV production from script to screen—but the biggest disruptions may not be the ones anyone is predicting.…

Closing the women’s health gap: The United Kingdom’s £36 billion opportunity
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Closing the women’s health gap: The United Kingdom’s £36 billion opportunity

Closing the women’s health gap in the United Kingdom could result in ten more healthy days of life per year for every woman—and potentially boost the country’s …

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud
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Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at…

Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are generally available
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Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are generally available

Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are now generally available. Agents can now drive a real browser, navigate live web apps, and feed what they find ba…

Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants
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Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implants

Meta's FAIR AI team uses Brain2Qwerty v2 to translate brain activity into typed sentences, with no implants or surgery required. The system reads magnetic signa…

Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the sa…

New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
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New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.…

Copilot CLI auto model selection routes based on task
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Copilot CLI auto model selection routes based on task

GitHub Copilot auto model selection now routes to the best model for your task in Copilot CLI, using utilization and model health metrics for a high quality, re…

Suphachai Chearavanont: Bold moves in innovation-driven transformation
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Suphachai Chearavanont: Bold moves in innovation-driven transformation

In striving for business growth while creating value for society, Suphachai Chearavanont has based his leadership strategy on looking beyond short-term gains to…

Betsy Nabel on physicians and women in healthcare leadership roles
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Betsy Nabel on physicians and women in healthcare leadership roles

Betsy Nabel, a leader and advocate for women in healthcare, reflects on the moves she’s made in her career to stay true to herself while creating lasting impact…

NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America
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NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure n…

Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates
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Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But the …

Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users
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Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users

Anthropic is removing a hidden monitoring feature from its programming tool, Claude Code, after it sparked outrage on social media. The article Hidden code in C…

OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy
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OpenAI paper reveals three GPT-5.6 Pro models, breaking with single top-tier strategy

An OpenAI benchmark paper suggests that the Pro tier of GPT-5.6 could ship in three variants. That would be the first major change to ChatGPT Pro's structure si…

Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week ban, the US government is letting Anthropic ship Fable 5 globally again. Amazon researchers had found a jailbreak, but Anthropic says even much…

Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers
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Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers

It’s our goal for AWS to be the most secure place to run any workload, and in support of that we’ve been deeply investing in security across our services since&…

Author Talks: Why we need a ‘ritual renaissance’
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Author Talks: Why we need a ‘ritual renaissance’

What if the antidote to loneliness isn’t technology but ritual? Traveling across 16 countries, author Bruce Feiler uncovered a quiet global movement helping peo…

The twilight of the chatbots
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The twilight of the chatbots

How work changes along the exponential…

python-1.10.0
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python-1.10.0

Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to the pricier Opus model series
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Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to the pricier Opus model series

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which beats its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and even edges past the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 kno…

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Sonnet model
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Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Sonnet model

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Clau…

Per-user AI credit budgets available for cost centers
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Per-user AI credit budgets available for cost centers

Enterprise admins can now set a cost center user-level budget: one per-user AI credit budget on a cost center that applies to every individual in it. As members…

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and edi…

OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half
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OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half

According to a report by The Information, OpenAI has cut inference costs for its AI models by more than half. The company applied the optimizations to ChatGPT, …