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Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defenses
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defenses

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are usi…

How Orange uses agents to make FinOps everyone's responsibility
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How Orange uses agents to make FinOps everyone's responsibility

At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cl…

Try these 5 Weave tools—and share your own
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Try these 5 Weave tools—and share your own

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system pe…

Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
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Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.…

The agentic transformation office: Redefining the economics of change
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The agentic transformation office: Redefining the economics of change

Successful transformations no longer require an army of people at the center.…

Reimagining advertising with AI
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Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.…

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
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Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers

AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data cente…

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
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A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose co…

2026: The State of Consumer AI
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2026: The State of Consumer AI

Consumer AI Adoption Hardly Grew in 2026, But Spend Tripled Last year, consumer AI broke into the mainstream. This year, adoption barely moved—even as spending …

The decade to redefine UK banking
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The decade to redefine UK banking

UK banks have never been more profitable—but have rarely been more exposed. Success depends on securing customers and deposits, winning the commercial transacti…

Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser
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Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser

Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.…

University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
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University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK

Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but compu…

Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things
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Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things

Sakana Marlinアップデート:レポートと対話する「Interactive Reading」と、出力スライドのPowerPoint対応
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Sakana Marlinアップデート:レポートと対話する「Interactive Reading」と、出力スライドのPowerPoint対応

‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce
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‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce

Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstag…

Claude Code v2.1.273
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Claude Code v2.1.273

GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions
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GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions

GitHub Copilot can now suggest allowed values when you create a custom property for repositories in your organization. This feature is in public preview for Git…

Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans
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Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans

Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.…

President Trump Promised to Make Memphis Safe Again. One Year Later, the Numbers Prove It.
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President Trump Promised to Make Memphis Safe Again. One Year Later, the Numbers Prove It.

One year ago, President Donald J. Trump created the Memphis Safe Task Force and ordered a full-scale federal surge into one of America’s most violent cities. Pr…

Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs
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Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker A…

Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization
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Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization

Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and …

Optimizing cost and latency with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching
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Optimizing cost and latency with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching

Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through …

AI for Societal Impact
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AI for Societal Impact

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.…

AI for everyone in every language
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AI for everyone in every language

We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.…

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
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Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary …

AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories
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AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara …

From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production
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From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production

On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to a…

Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
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Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI

Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI …