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How can the public sector meet the AI moment?
Practice

How can the public sector meet the AI moment?

AI can help public sector agencies improve outcomes for residents and make every taxpayer dollar go further. But realizing that potential requires moving beyond…

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
Practice

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom …

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers
Practice

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers

In this post, we walk you through the Computer Vision MCP Server, which illustrates this approach, representing how AI systems can process visual information an…

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance
Practice

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Built partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), AWS Partner AND Digital, and AWS account teams to create a scalable, AI-powered document…

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released
Agents

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them…

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
Research

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last …

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
Labs

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.…

Measuring Balance of Payments Deficits
Policy

Measuring Balance of Payments Deficits

Balance-of-payments (BOP) deficits have occupied the attention of policymakers and economists for decades, and recent developments have brought renewed interest…

Is commercial aerospace ready for a demand reckoning?
Practice

Is commercial aerospace ready for a demand reckoning?

A new survey reveals a widening gap between airline sentiment and the rest of the value chain.…

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI
Practice

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking inf…

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)
Practice

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)

Why AI apps fail in production (and how Google solved it) We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs…

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
Labs

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.…

The ‘bridge builder’ COO: Delivering results by engaging stakeholders
Practice

The ‘bridge builder’ COO: Delivering results by engaging stakeholders

Today’s COOs work with an increasingly broad set of stakeholders. Success means understanding the “why” that drives each one.…

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
Create

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
Create

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
Practice

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…