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Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex
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Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web

Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was limited to the desktop app. The agent keeps working in the bac…
Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems
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Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, cod…
How AWS Finance teams reclaimed hundreds of hours with Amazon Quick
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How AWS Finance teams reclaimed hundreds of hours with Amazon Quick

In this post, we show how AWS Finance used chat agents and Flows in Amazin Quick to transform two of their most time-consuming workflows.…
Build an AI-powered AWS support companion with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Build an AI-powered AWS support companion with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you build an AWS Support Companion using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent uses Strands Agents as the orchestration framework and connects to AW…
Monitoring discriminative ML models using Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow
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Monitoring discriminative ML models using Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow

Implementing a data and model monitoring solution is necessary to maintain prediction accuracy and help achieve the best outcome for your machine learning use c…
Build a serverless image editing agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness
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Build a serverless image editing agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness

This post walks through building a serverless image editor where users upload a photo, describe an edit in plain English, and receive the result in seconds. The…
Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick
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Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through how multi-dataset Topics work, explain how the chat agent uses defined relationships to generate cross-dataset queries, and demons…
Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat
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Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat

This post is for data architects, business intelligence (BI) engineers, and analytics engineers building or optimizing Quick Sight Topics for natural-language C…
Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
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Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

In this post, we shift from concepts to patterns. For each schema, you’ll find a table structure, use cases, implementation steps, and sample SQL queries. We al…
Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
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Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

Today, we are excited to announce Multi-Dataset Relationships in Amazon Quick Sight. This new capability lets you define logical relationships between Quick Sig…
Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick
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Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through what Dataset Enrichment is, how it differs from legacy Topics, and provide three migration scenarios with step-by-step guidance so…
Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
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Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dro…
Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more
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Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.…
China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

According to Reuters, Chinese authorities are looking into restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models. Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai wou…
A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace
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A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate …
Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI
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Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI

For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, th…
20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)
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20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering …
Drive proactive security, prioritize risks with Google Threat Intelligence and Wiz ASM
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Drive proactive security, prioritize risks with Google Threat Intelligence and Wiz ASM

Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organiza…
The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations
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The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations

The real AI advantage comes from redesigning how work is done and how decisions are made. Ultimately, success will depend on people and operating models support…
GitHub Copilot app available to all
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GitHub Copilot app available to all

The GitHub Copilot app is now available on every Copilot plan. Sign in with your GitHub account to start agent-driven development from your desktop. Available o…
Agent Skills for .NET Is Now Released
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Agent Skills for .NET Is Now Released

You can now give your .NET agents reusable packages of domain expertise &#8211; instructions, reference documents, and scripts they load only when a task needs …
AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters
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AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is o…
Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens
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Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens

Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using a new …
Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3
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Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3

The Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3, 2026. If you use it to review your GitHub Copilot spend, you can get even greater visibility direct…
Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise
Research

Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfoldi…
My thoughts on Fable
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My thoughts on Fable

what I want from a harness…
Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
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Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens

Chinese AI models are gaining ground with US companies because they cost far less than systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, CNBC reports. The article Chinese AI m…
The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
Research

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. Tha…
Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects
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Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok sees no AI-driven margin gains outside tech. In regulated industries like healthcare, banking, or pharma, process overhauls …