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How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry
Practice

How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry

AI is poised to rewire the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. Firms that move quickly to reimagine workflows, improve data use, and automate wo…

Gigafactory delivery on time: Solving the SOP delay challenge
Practice

Gigafactory delivery on time: Solving the SOP delay challenge

Battery plants are essential for the energy transition. Most miss their ramp-up deadlines, however. Here’s how to fix the delivery model.…

The future of delivering software as a medical device
Practice

The future of delivering software as a medical device

Software is reshaping how medtech organizations create value. A new approach to quality assurance during software-as-a-medical-device development, supported by …

Patrick Finn on how tension can lead to healthcare’s reinvention
Practice

Patrick Finn on how tension can lead to healthcare’s reinvention

McKinsey Senior Partner Patrick Finn examines the current unique moment in healthcare and why AI could help reshape who leads healthcare’s next era.…

NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry
Labs

NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry

Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers and infrastructure builders, Japan is one of the world’s centers of AI — building across the full stack with NV…

The CEO’s role in transformation
Practice

The CEO’s role in transformation

Transformations often falter due to internal dynamics that divide organizations, such as misaligned incentives, siloed efforts, and risk aversion. CEOs are uniq…

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains expands BYOK capabilities
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GitHub Copilot for JetBrains expands BYOK capabilities

This update brings major advances in customization and model provider flexibility to all tiers of GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs. With richer plugin and prov…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — June update
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — June update

June 2026 is about visibility and trust with a clearer view of your GitHub Copilot usage, a new trust layer for MCP servers, and the first C++ scenarios for the…

Claude Code v2.1.210
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.210

Nominations and Withdrawals Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nominations and Withdrawals Sent to the Senate

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Maria D’Avanzo, of New York, to be Inspector General, General Services Administration. David Slade, of Florida, to be Firs…

White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative for Unprecedented Cybersecurity Vulnerability Coordination
Policy

White House Launches Gold Eagle Initiative for Unprecedented Cybersecurity Vulnerability Coordination

President Trump’s bold vision to secure and accelerate American artificial intelligence (AI) innovation is being actioned through the creation of “GOLD EAGLE,” …

How consumers are reshaping the future of mobility
Practice

How consumers are reshaping the future of mobility

Our recent survey reveals shifting consumer priorities, with rising expectations for affordability, sustainability, and technology and greater openness to new b…

How physician CEOs hone the double-edged sword of clinical training
Practice

How physician CEOs hone the double-edged sword of clinical training

The journey from physician to CEO has no prescribed path, but those who’ve reached the top reveal how they evolved the strengths and instincts forged in clinica…

Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software
Practice

Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were fo…

Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock

This post shows how Thrad.ai deployed a multi-agent system with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates the pipeline from prospect discovery …

Scaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis
Practice

Scaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis

Using generative AI enables parallel execution of comprehensive user flow testing at scale. This solution demonstrates how to build a cloud-deployed UX testing …

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 2
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Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 2

In this post, we extend that foundation to demonstrate how QA Studio addresses batch regression testing and pipeline integration through test suites that organi…

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
Labs

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.…

Nemotron Labs: How Open Models Give Enterprises and Nations AI They Can Trust, Control and Customize
Labs

Nemotron Labs: How Open Models Give Enterprises and Nations AI They Can Trust, Control and Customize

Enterprises have plenty of powerful models to choose from. The real test is whether the AI an enterprise builds uniquely addresses the needs of the business: im…

Defense at Machine Speed: The Emerging Architecture Powering AI-Native Cybersecurity
Practice

Defense at Machine Speed: The Emerging Architecture Powering AI-Native Cybersecurity

Over the last six months, it seems like every security-oriented conversation has distilled down into one core question: What happens to defense when attackers a…

Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production
Practice

Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production

Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-co…

ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS
Practice

ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS

In this post, you will learn how ScienceSoft, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Services Partner, integrated Amazon Nova 2 Sonic with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to bu…

Scaling medical content review at Flo Health with Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
Practice

Scaling medical content review at Flo Health with Amazon Bedrock – Part 2

In this post, we share how Flo Health’s engineering team turned a proof of concept (PoC) from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center into a production-grade, A…

Why Performance per Watt Is the Ultimate Metric for AI Infrastructure Efficiency
Labs

Why Performance per Watt Is the Ultimate Metric for AI Infrastructure Efficiency

Power is AI infrastructure’s inescapable constraint. How many tokens an AI factory can generate within a fixed power budget determines its revenue and profitabi…

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
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Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation

Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.…

Rewiring customer experience for the agentic era
Practice

Rewiring customer experience for the agentic era

As AI agents take on moment-to-moment decisions, leading companies are redesigning customer experience from predefined journeys to dynamic, cross-channel orches…

Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts in public preview
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Agentic autofix for code scanning alerts in public preview

Agentic autofix is now in public preview for code scanning alerts. It remediates alerts by working across your codebase the way a developer would: it explores r…

How to use GPT-5.6
Briefing

How to use GPT-5.6

new desktop app and hosted sites in ChatGPT…

Security reviews now available in the GitHub Copilot app
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Security reviews now available in the GitHub Copilot app

You can now run a security review on your in-flight code changes directly from the GitHub Copilot app. The /security-review slash command is shipping in public …

Commission collects feedback to define EU's position for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2027
Policy

Commission collects feedback to define EU's position for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2027

Commission collects feedback to define EU's position for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2027 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/14/2026 - 13:43 …