Policy & World

Policy

Presidential Message on U.S. Catholic Bishops Honoring the 250th Anniversary of American Independence

Today, Melania and I join in prayer with Catholic Bishops gathered in Orlando, Florida, as they consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of J…

2026-06-12

Policy

First Lady Melania Trump Launches Fostering the Future Accounts America’s First Savings & Investment Vehicle for Foster Youth

First Lady Melania Trump launched her Fostering the Future Accounts, a new financial resource established to empower foster youth to be fiscally autonomous upon…

2026-06-12

Policy

Restoring American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Building on prior actions to strengthen American seafood production and support working fishing …

2026-06-12

Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific

UNLEASHING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE PACIFIC: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation to restore commercial fishing access to nearly half …

2026-06-12

Policy

75th Anniversary of the White House Navy Mess, 2026

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On June 11, 1951, President Harry S. Truman formally established a unit of the United States Nav…

2026-06-12

Policy

Nomination and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence, vice Tulsi Gabbard. WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter C…

2026-06-12

Practice

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, go…

2026-07-17

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.…

2026-07-15

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 …

2026-07-14

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 …

2026-07-14

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…

2026-07-14

Practice

Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production

Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-co…

2026-07-14

Practice

ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS

In this post, you will learn how ScienceSoft, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Services Partner, integrated Amazon Nova 2 Sonic with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to bu…

2026-07-14

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…

2026-07-13

Practice

Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS

Today, we're announcing the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, cost, and p…

2026-07-09

Briefing

Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much

xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer t…

2026-07-08

Briefing

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead c…

2026-07-08

Practice

Manage AI applications on Mac with Jamf’s AI Governance and Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show how you can use Jamf’s AI Governance with Amazon Bedrock to configure, deploy, and validate managed settings for AI applications across a …

2026-07-08

Briefing

Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises questions

Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code executi…

2026-07-08

Briefing

China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down the features that let users build and chat with custom AI companions, responding to new regulations from Beijing. The ar…

2026-07-06

Briefing

Mistral CEO Mensch says proprietary AI models give labs a front-row seat to your business processes

Mistral founder Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models. He claims AI labs are storing more and more customer data and have, in some c…

2026-07-05

Practice

A dual transformation agenda for Europe’s chemicals industry

The strongest chemical company transformations in Europe perform a difficult balancing act: improving performance while radically reshaping portfolios, operatio…

2026-07-03

Create

Enterprise managed-settings.json is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can configure AI standards through a managed-settings.json file maintained in a .github-private repository in a selected organ…

2026-07-02

Research

Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents

Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: …

2026-06-30

Briefing

EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to…

2026-06-29

Labs

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.…

2026-06-29

Research

Intent-Governed Tool Authorization for AI Agents

AI agents increasingly act through external tools: they read private data, construct structured payloads, submit write requests, export records, and coordinate …

2026-06-29

Research

ABACUS: Adapting Unified Foundation Model for Bridging Image Count Understanding and Generation

ABACUS is a unified vision-language model that handles object counting, crowd counting, referring-expression counting, and count-faithful image generation witho…

2026-06-29

Research

Phonetic and semantic analyses of spoken corpora of Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin indicate that the neutral tone is a lexical tone

The neutral, or floating, tone of Mandarin Chinese is a tone with an enigmatic set of properties. It has been described as a reduced tone, or as a tone that som…

2026-06-29

Research

Mean-Field PhiBE: Continuous-Time Mean-Field Reinforcement Learning from Discrete-Time Data

This paper addresses model-free continuous-time mean-field control in a setting where the population dynamics evolve continuously according to an unknown McKean…

2026-06-29