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Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation?
Practice

Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation?

As AI reshapes entry-level work, organizations should rethink how expertise is developed by integrating knowledge management, role design, learning, and coachin…

Claude Code v2.1.209
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.209

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi
Labs

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.…

Claude Code v2.1.208
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.208

Nominations Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nominations Sent to the Senate

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor. Andrew A. De Mello, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax …

Modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Policy

Modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On September 18, 1996, as part of an effort to prevent development of significant coal reserves …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Modifies Two National Monuments, Restoring Sensible Land Management
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Modifies Two National Monuments, Restoring Sensible Land Management

RIGHTSIZING UTAH NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed Proclamations modifying two Utah national monuments, the Bears Ears National Monume…

Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument
Policy

Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On December 28, 2016, President Obama issued Proclamation 9558, which established the Bears Ears…

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security
Policy

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1.  The United States relies on a strong chemical manufacturing sector to support industrie…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Grants Further Regulatory Relief from Burdensome EPA Restrictions to Promote American Security
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Grants Further Regulatory Relief from Burdensome EPA Restrictions to Promote American Security

PROVIDING REGULATORY RELIEF: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation granting two years of regulatory relief from stringent Biden-era regula…

Is that AI agent worth it? Agentic economics and the modern operating model
Practice

Is that AI agent worth it? Agentic economics and the modern operating model

As companies focus on spiraling AI costs, they need to make sure not to lose sight of the real prize.…

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from OpenAI are generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Amazon Bedr…

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Practice

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

President Trump Honors the Life and Legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham
Policy

President Trump Honors the Life and Legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham

President Donald J. Trump reflected on the life and legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham following his sudden passing this weekend. Speaking in several interviews, …

How a 180-year-old news institution prepares for its next reinvention
Practice

How a 180-year-old news institution prepares for its next reinvention

Associated Press CEO Daisy Veerasingham discusses AI, the economics of trusted content, and why preserving editorial independence matters more than preserving a…

Launching UI for generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI
Practice

Launching UI for generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we introduce the UI for optimized generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI Studio, a low-code no-code (LCNC) experience. The…

Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
Practice

Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Building multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Apply fine-grained access control with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptors establish the conce…

Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we describe how Bluesight used two AWS engagements and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to evolve from a single-product AI prototype to Prism, a unified a…

When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
Practice

When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powere…

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
Research

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently th…

Death of Senator Lindsey Graham
Policy

Death of Senator Lindsey Graham

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of Senator Lindsey Graham, I h…

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs
Practice

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, beca…

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
Research

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving spee…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Briefing

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.…

How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate
Practice

How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate

McKinsey’s Alex Wolkomir discusses how housing leaders can win with AI by improving customer experiences, redesigning workflows, and building trust between part…

Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption
Practice

Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption

McKinsey Senior Partner Brooke Weddle explores how companies are successfully scaling their AI programs.…

From clay 3d render to a real action short: a 3D-to-AI pipeline with total control
Create

From clay 3d render to a real action short: a 3D-to-AI pipeline with total control

We built a short action film — a 1930s pickup racing a steam freight train through a desert town, and jumping over it — where everything is exactl…

ChinAI #366: Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30
Labs

ChinAI #366: Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30

Greetings from a world where……

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world
Policy

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/13/2026 - 11:15 As announced in t…

Smart Cellular Bricks: Towards Collective Intelligence for the Physical World
Labs

Smart Cellular Bricks: Towards Collective Intelligence for the Physical World

Collections of hundreds of physical 3D cellular bricks, simple modular hardware units that run identical local Neural Cellular Automata without any global knowl…