Briefing

Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI

Data center capital expenditures are surging as AI workloads grow, yet competitiveness increasingly depends on securing advanced accelerators, reliable electric…

Biopharma R&D: The evolving formula for discovery and development

Innovation after innovation is advancing the biopharmaceutical industry, enabling better treatment of complex diseases. The industry has historically made its h…

Polyethylene: Widely produced—but not one-size-fits-all

Manufacturing polyethylene is a highly competitive business. Success depends greatly on access to feedstocks, yet investment doesn’t always follow economics.…

Pharmaceuticals: Innovating and advancing around the world

The continued rise of monoclonal antibody therapies and demographic changes are powering growth in the pharmaceuticals industry.…

Batteries: Scaling the engine of electrification

Demand for batteries is surging as electric vehicles and storage grow, but competitiveness depends on securing materials, ramping up gigafactories, and building…

EAF steel: Beyond the blast furnace

Global steel investment is flat, but DRI-EAF production is gaining share in advanced economies.…

Automotive R&D: Charging ahead in EV platform development

Improvements in batteries and recharging, not to mention geopolitics, have increased consumer appetites for electric vehicles. Automakers are flocking to China …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares an Emergency and Authorizes the Temporary Suspension of Certain Duties on Phosphate Fertilizer from Morocco

PROTECTING AMERICA’S FOOD SUPPLY: Today, President Donald J. Trump took action to safeguard America’s food supply and support domestic agricultural product…

Declaration of Emergency and Authorization for Temporary Duty Free Importation of Phosphate Fertilizer Morocco

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1. Fertilizers are an essential component of agriculture and food production. Producers of corn,…

Economic conditions outlook, June 2026

In early June, executives were more downbeat on the economy than they have been in years and reported divided expectations for the coming months. Energy prices …

Australia’s grid opportunity: Why it’s time to flick the switch

Australia’s energy transition has entered a new phase. Moving beyond “should we?” the question is now how to deliver an affordable, reliable, secure, and compet…

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Plan for midstream adjustments

It’s normal for companies to encounter unique issues throughout their technology and AI transformation journey. The key is being prepared to adapt.…

Start Anywhere, a magazine by Figma

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. M…

Meet the artists behind Figma’s Season 5 collection

Lowering the Cost of Living by Promoting the Freedom to Fix

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the Unite…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Lowers the Cost of Living by Promoting the Freedom to Fix

EXPANDING AMERICANS’ FREEDOM TO FIX THEIR OWN VEHICLES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum expanding Americans’ freedom to f…

Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processe…

Implement a backup strategy for Amazon Quick Sight BI assets

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting…

EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to…

Build an agentic AI healthcare claims pipeline with Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthLake

In this post, we show you how to build an automated claims processing pipeline using two key Amazon Bedrock capabilities: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation for int…

Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS

In this post, we show you how PAR built a production-ready multi-tenant LLM analytics system that enforces row-level security through a three-layer architecture…

Pair Nova 2 Lite with Claude for cost-optimized document processing

In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale…

Synthesize the big picture and analyze trends with BigQuery's AI.AGG function

We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to sum…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud Security uses AI internally

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we’re discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle …

Debugging production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability

In this post, you learn how to debug production agent failures using built-in observability capabilities. We walk through common failure patterns, show how to a…

Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode) is now in preview for GitHub Copilot

Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode) is now rolling out in preview on GitHub Copilot. Fast mode delivers significantly faster output token speeds while maintaining the s…

Claude Meets Blackwell Ultra: Anthropic’s Models Now Run on NVIDIA GB300 in Azure

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, givin…