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Fraud.gov: Track the Trump Administration’s Relentless War on Fraud
Policy

Fraud.gov: Track the Trump Administration’s Relentless War on Fraud

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are waging war on the fraudsters and scammers who have looted hardworking Americans for far too long. Toda…

LLM optimization integration for Amazon SageMaker Python SDK
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LLM optimization integration for Amazon SageMaker Python SDK

The Amazon SageMaker Python SDK v3 now exposes generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI directly in your notebook. Benchmark an endpoint, …

Building an agentic app deployer with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Lambda
Practice

Building an agentic app deployer with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Lambda

PDI Technologies built PDI Brew, an agentic platform on AWS where non-technical employees describe a tool in plain English and receive a fully provisioned, mult…

Agent Skills for Automated Reasoning policies in Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Agent Skills for Automated Reasoning policies in Amazon Bedrock

Learn how to run the full Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning policy lifecycle from your coding agent. A suite of open source Agent Skills builds, reviews, tests…

Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock

A regulated customer needed all Claude Code inference processed in a single AWS Region (London), not just in-geography. This post shows two ways to pin Claude C…

Build visibility for Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch
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Build visibility for Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch

As engineering teams adopt coding agents like Codex, leaders need visibility into adoption, consumption, and reliability. This post shows how to route Codex Ope…

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
Labs

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

OpenAI and the APA are launching a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use supporting youth mental health.…

Growth favors the bold: AI as force multiplier
Practice

Growth favors the bold: AI as force multiplier

Seven myths hamper growth in the new world of AI-driven growth. Overcoming them requires leaders to focus on redesigning how commercial decisions are made.…

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
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AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed

"The Spiral didn't 'find' anyone first," someone on Reddit wrote last year. "It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it's…

I'm using a new agent app
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I'm using a new agent app

is Google in trouble?…

How AI-enabled execution became Reckitt’s ‘tenfold game changer’
Practice

How AI-enabled execution became Reckitt’s ‘tenfold game changer’

RGMx helped Reckitt improve pricing, promotions, and assortment. Smart Execution helps those choices land at the point of sale by using AI and data to strengthe…

Mirendil taps AI Hypercomputer TPUs and GPUs for pre- and post-training applications
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Mirendil taps AI Hypercomputer TPUs and GPUs for pre- and post-training applications

Nearly every major AI lab uses Google Cloud infrastructure, including for training of models, inference for agents, and new frontier research. Google Cloud also…

Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI
Labs

Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open letter arguing that AI leadership…

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "merit…

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently has…

Claude Code v2.1.223
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.223

An architect of modern media, a literary champion, and a retail revolutionary
Practice

An architect of modern media, a literary champion, and a retail revolutionary

Our latest obituaries also include the first American to scale Mount Everest, a frugal Fed chair, and a fashion cofounder tailor-made for her visionary role.…

How AI is redefining category management in distribution
Practice

How AI is redefining category management in distribution

New AI-enabled tools have the potential to reshape how distributors price, source, negotiate, and manage assortments, with immediate financial and strategic imp…

Run production AI agents in n8n with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness
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Run production AI agents in n8n with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available. Learn how to add it as an agent step in n8n workflows using a new open-source community node, and b…

How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools
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How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools

AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore run in the cloud, but users' tools and files live on their laptops. Learn how to build a secure MCP bridge that lets a clo…

How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, we'll explore how Mobileye deployed an AI support agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - from the support bottleneck that sparked the idea…

How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock
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How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock

Learn how LendingTree built a production multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock. Three coordinated agents use LangGraph, the Model Context Protocol, a…

Better code, fewer tokens: The benefits of Code Connect in MCP
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Better code, fewer tokens: The benefits of Code Connect in MCP

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the…

How do we reach universal prosperity by 2100?
Practice

How do we reach universal prosperity by 2100?

Can you imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today’s Switzerland—by 2100?…

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
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Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access …

FBI secretly opened probe alleging Trump fired Comey because he was a Russian asset, declassified memos show
Policy

FBI secretly opened probe alleging Trump fired Comey because he was a Russian asset, declassified memos show

By John Solomon The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a …

In pursuit of progress: Americans’ aspirations for economic mobility
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In pursuit of progress: Americans’ aspirations for economic mobility

As the United States celebrates 250 years, Americans share their aspirations for a better life, the barriers they face, and their priorities for expanding econo…

Presidential Message on the Birthday of the United States Coast Guard
Policy

Presidential Message on the Birthday of the United States Coast Guard

Today, our Nation celebrates the 236th birthday of the United States Coast Guard, a force of American law enforcement professionals and Coast Guardsmen who stan…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.19.4
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.19.4