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Your budget is killing your strategy: four imperatives for CFOs

The traditional annual budget process is broken. It is rigid, backward-looking, and not operationally fit to keep up with today's fast-moving markets. Top-perfo…

2026-09-08

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Amazon SageMaker Feature Store introduces UpdateRecord for feature-level writes

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes. With the new UpdateRecord API, you can update one or more feature values in a single call with…

2026-09-08

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Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 1

Managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker AI now syncs richer model metadata (training metrics, evaluation results, inference specs, and lineage) into the SageMaker AI…

2026-09-08

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Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2

Governing models across accounts is the next step after automatic model registration. This post extends managed MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sy…

2026-09-08

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Creating value from AI and digital capabilities in logistics operations

As AI and digital capabilities become more widely adopted in logistics operations, the companies seeing returns from their investments are doing three things di…

2026-09-08

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How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app

When building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response times across diverse media types, can be challeng…

2026-09-08

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How DiDi built intelligent contact center QA with Amazon Bedrock

DiDi built a transparent, self-owned contact center quality assurance (QA) system on Amazon Bedrock, replacing an opaque third-party tool. Intent verification a…

2026-09-08

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How HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system with Amazon Bedrock

HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system powered by Amazon Bedrock that runs on-premises inside the customer environment. This post describes the multi…

2026-09-08

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Benchmarking small LLM inference on SageMaker AI: G7 vs G5 and G6

Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Co…

2026-09-08

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Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions

Wire Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations into a GitHub Actions pipeline: deploy an AI agent and an OAuth-protected MCP server to AgentCore runtime, invoke the …

2026-09-08

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Modernizing for the mission: An interview with Jamie Wolff

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s CIO shares that modernization means rebuilding infrastructure, data, and talent at once—while keeping the mission…

2026-09-08

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Global Farmer Insights 2026

Our biennial global survey of 5,500 farmers finds that they are becoming selective in their spending in the face of economic pressures. AI is making inroads, ev…

2026-09-08

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Welcome Alex Kurland, Menlo’s Newest Partner

Today is a big day for Menlo as we welcome Alex Kurland to the team! Adding a partner to a close-knit partnership is a big deal in many ways, but this is partic…

2026-09-08

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Smart rail infrastructure: Laying the digital tracks for resilient networks

Adopting digital and AI advances can help rail infrastructure technology address long-standing challenges. Where should operators prioritize?…

2026-09-08

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GS Caltex’s Saehong Hur: Leading from the top; moving forward—together

For Saehong Hur, continued communication and an integrated mindset are vital for adapting to changing market needs and maximizing value.…

2026-09-07

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Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant that takes customer orders through text, voice notes, and real-time voice calls on a single busines…

2026-09-05

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Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory

Long-running AI agents accumulate outdated memories that degrade quality and create compliance risk. Learn how to design memory lifecycle policies for Amazon Be…

2026-09-04

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Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption

When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model…

2026-09-04

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How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock

Disaster recovery at scale is hard. Learn how Intuit built EWOK Agent, an agentic disaster recovery assistant on Amazon Bedrock that lets on-call engineers run …

2026-09-04

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Customizing your knowledge base on Amazon Bedrock for large and complex documents using Amazon Textract

Learn how to customize an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base for large, complex documents by combining the high-accuracy text extraction of Amazon Textract with the …

2026-09-04

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Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart

HyperPod InstantStart is an open source control plane that composes Amazon EKS orchestration with the managed capabilities of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. It driv…

2026-09-04

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Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod

Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, …

2026-09-04

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Voices on Quality: Unlocking warranty value in consumer automotive

Warranty and goodwill costs automotive OEMs billions each year, but a more strategic approach can deliver significant P&L and cash impact within 12 to 24 months…

2026-09-04

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Utilities at an inflection point: Four strategic evolutions ahead

European utilities face a period of discontinuity: Electrification, renewables, flexibility needs, AI, and policy shifts are reshaping economics, driving four s…

2026-09-04

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Author Talks: What the world’s best owner-CEOs get right

How do exceptional leaders create enduring institutions? Three McKinsey authors reveal the leadership core behaviors and mindsets behind Asia’s most successful …

2026-09-04

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The power of purpose, culture, and grit: An interview with JoAnne Bass

The Air Force’s former top enlisted leader reflects on the value of lifelong learning, writing your own playbook, and preparing the next generation to serve.…

2026-09-03

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Shapers and founders: The traits behind outsized value creation in Asia

A set of common traits underlies Asian founders’ success: Passion for their work, ongoing curiosity, boundless energy, and a strong belief in their people.…

2026-09-03

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Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate

Learn best practices for building production-grade, agent-based business process automations with Amazon Quick Automate: choosing the right process, designing f…

2026-09-03

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Set up OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock

Deploy a customer-operated LiteLLM gateway on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, connect it to an OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock, and configure Codex to route request…

2026-09-03

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Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation

Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-e…

2026-09-03