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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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Reinventing autonomous driving in the age of generative AI
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Reinventing autonomous driving in the age of generative AI

As AI-native systems take hold, autonomous driving is becoming a race for compute power, software, data, and semiconductors.…

Reimagining trade spend: From cost center to growth catalyst
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Reimagining trade spend: From cost center to growth catalyst

Despite costing companies 8 to 11 percent of revenue, trade spend underdelivers. Companies could reset their approach through six design principles to unlock be…

Amazon Quick ARNs: Cross-account migration and namespace permissions
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Amazon Quick ARNs: Cross-account migration and namespace permissions

In this post, we cover the structure of Amazon Quick ARNs and provide a practical mental model for working with them. By the end, you can look at an ARN and imm…

End-to-end encrypted ML inference with Amazon SageMaker AI and FHE
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End-to-end encrypted ML inference with Amazon SageMaker AI and FHE

This blog has previously discussed FHE for ML inference in the post Enable fully homomorphic encryption with Amazon SageMaker endpoints for secure, real-time in…

Better decisions at scale: How mathematical optimization delivers where intuition fails
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Better decisions at scale: How mathematical optimization delivers where intuition fails

In this post, we introduce mathematical optimization, explain how it fits within the broader AI landscape, and showcase real-world success stories where the Inn…

It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime gives each agent session its own isolated microVM with a persistent workspace, secure tool access through Gateway, and built-in…

Unlocking AI flexibility in Europe: A guide to cross-region inference for EU data processing and model access
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Unlocking AI flexibility in Europe: A guide to cross-region inference for EU data processing and model access

With access to the latest generative AI models and high-performance accelerated compute in high global demand, AWS customers need tools to take advantage of mod…

Report: GKE Inference Gateway delivers up to 92% faster AI responses
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Report: GKE Inference Gateway delivers up to 92% faster AI responses

As generative AI moves from experimental pilots to massive production environments, the efficiency of your infrastructure becomes the ultimate differentiator. O…

How to unlock true ROI in software development – a deep dive into the latest DORA research
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How to unlock true ROI in software development – a deep dive into the latest DORA research

How do you prove the business value of generative AI to your teams? Technology and finance leaders need to show the clear business value of AI projects to secur…

Detecting and containing AI-powered threats with Google Security Operations agents
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Detecting and containing AI-powered threats with Google Security Operations agents

To defend against the growing range of AI-accelerated threat actors, organizations need to be able to respond faster to outpace the adversary.Recently, we annou…

Europe’s new e‑commerce agenda: How AI is resetting growth and competition
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Europe’s new e‑commerce agenda: How AI is resetting growth and competition

From agentic shopping to retail media and omnichannel intelligence, AI is changing the economics of digital commerce. Here’s how leaders can turn experimentatio…

Rewiring retail in Europe: The AI imperative
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Rewiring retail in Europe: The AI imperative

AI is already reshaping the European retail value chain. The question now is how leaders modernize while strengthening the human experience—with a €240 billion …

Productivity reimagined
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Productivity reimagined

Bold moves to redefine growth in Germany.…

The art, science, and technology of geopolitical scenario planning
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The art, science, and technology of geopolitical scenario planning

Strategic foresight is not about predicting the future but setting strategy and building capabilities to navigate multiple potential futures. Here’s how to sele…

How corporate–scale-up partnering can boost Europe’s tech competitiveness
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How corporate–scale-up partnering can boost Europe’s tech competitiveness

Stronger, more systematic partnerships between corporates and scale-ups have the potential to enable both to thrive while helping more innovation reach commerci…

Build an agentic incident triage assistant with Amazon Quick and New Relic
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Build an agentic incident triage assistant with Amazon Quick and New Relic

This post shows engineering teams how to apply that principle to one of the most time-sensitive workflows in engineering: incident triage. You will build a cust…

Hands-free first notice of loss: Using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for intelligent claims intake
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Hands-free first notice of loss: Using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for intelligent claims intake

In this post, we demonstrate how a hands-free FNOL intake system combines agents built with the Strands Agents SDK for domain reasoning with Amazon Bedrock Agen…

What it feels like to work with Mythos
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What it feels like to work with Mythos

Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI…

Claude Fable 5: Available on Google Cloud
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Claude Fable 5: Available on Google Cloud

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier model, is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch is the latest proof point of our ongoing commitment t…

Scale Robot Reinforcement Learning with NVIDIA Isaac Lab on Amazon SageMaker AI
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Scale Robot Reinforcement Learning with NVIDIA Isaac Lab on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we show how to train robot policies for the Unitree H1 humanoid with NVIDIA Isaac Lab on Amazon SageMaker AI across two compute options: Amazon Sa…

Build an AI-Powered Equipment Repair Assistant Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Build an AI-Powered Equipment Repair Assistant Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you build an AI-powered equipment repair assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps farmers and field technicians diagnose equipment prob…

Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations
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Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations

Today, we’re announcing the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities: a collection of AI agents and skills that make this possible for developers building on AWS…

From risk to resilience: New approaches to navigating disruption in Asia
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From risk to resilience: New approaches to navigating disruption in Asia

Facing disruption on multiple fronts, organizations in Asia are drawing on lessons from past crises to boost their resilience.…

The world is changing. Can fashion keep up?
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The world is changing. Can fashion keep up?

Smart glasses. Preloved luxury. Style tips via chatbots. Tech, tariffs, and a temperamental economy are reshaping what consumers value—and how they discover, bu…

Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey
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Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey

The Swedish home-furnishing giant’s chief digital officer discusses the need to prioritize AI initiatives amid ‘the risk of doing everything but maybe nothing.’…

Prudential’s Charles Lowrey on finishing strong as CEO
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Prudential’s Charles Lowrey on finishing strong as CEO

Much has been written about a CEO’s first 100 days, but what about the other end of the journey?…

The seven operating truths of AI-native companies
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The seven operating truths of AI-native companies

Almost every company has AI tools, but few really know how to use them. Leaders at 15 AI-savvy companies say the difference comes down to seven operating truths…

How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development
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How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

Frontier teams are not just using AI to code faster. They’re redesigning how software gets built. The result is 4.5x productivity gains, in some cases more than…

Optimize blueprint extraction accuracy in Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
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Optimize blueprint extraction accuracy in Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Blueprint instruction optimization is a BDA feature that automatically refines your extraction instructions to address this challenge directly. You provide thre…

Spot trends faster, sort smarter: Unlocking Sparklines and Custom Sort in Amazon Quick
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Spot trends faster, sort smarter: Unlocking Sparklines and Custom Sort in Amazon Quick

Today, we’re excited to announce two new capabilities that make Quick Sight dashboards even more expressive and business-aligned: sparklines and custom sort for…