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How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
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Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS

This post walks through deploying Kimi K3 on AWS using two approaches: Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and  Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clust…

Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick
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Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick

Learn how to build an inference meta-monitoring system for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints using Amazon Quick. This governance layer sits above production ML infe…

How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock
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How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how Yahoo implemented Amazon Bedrock to enhance their Search Retargeting (SRT) capabilities in the Yahoo DSP ad tech suite. SRT is …

Migrate your prompts to new models and optimize them on Amazon Bedrock
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Migrate your prompts to new models and optimize them on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes your prompts for up to 5 models at once and compares original versus optimized performance across quality,…

Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%
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Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%

In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take a…

Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, along with explicit prompt caching that gives you precise control over which …

The new advantage in the age of AI: Building in the real world
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The new advantage in the age of AI: Building in the real world

As AI accelerates the digital economy, the real constraint is physical: housing, power, and infrastructure. Laura Hines-Pierce, co-CEO of Hines, explains why ex…

AI transformations: Views from AMD, Dell, Liquid AI, and Mercedes-Benz
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AI transformations: Views from AMD, Dell, Liquid AI, and Mercedes-Benz

Executives from AMD, Dell, Liquid AI, and Mercedes-Benz discuss how to structure processes with AI in mind and why enterprise-wide transformation is about peopl…

Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
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Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick

Learn how to build a no-code customer retention pipeline in Amazon Quick that detects at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, scores them by rete…

Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers
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Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous, cross-system business intelligence through configuration rather than custom code. Using pre-built MCP se…

What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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What’s new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we’ve seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development, w…

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent
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Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent

Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we’ll teach you how to build real-world, production-ready agents…

Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
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Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

This post explains how Private Key JWT client authentication works in AgentCore Identity and reviews the supported grant flows. We then walk through creating an…

How SOCAR transformed a fertilizer leader in Azerbaijan with industrial AI
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How SOCAR transformed a fertilizer leader in Azerbaijan with industrial AI

Azerbaijan’s national energy company set out to digitalize one of its most strategic industrial assets. With bold leadership, deep workforce upskilling, and a r…

Investing in Pangram to Stop AI Slop on the Internet
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Investing in Pangram to Stop AI Slop on the Internet

Why it’s critical to prevent polluting the internet This is a seminal moment for human history. Stop and think about it. We have invented a machine that now cre…

The CEO’s critical role in building new businesses
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The CEO’s critical role in building new businesses

Venture building works best when it’s part of a dual-track strategy—launching new businesses alongside the core—with clear oversight from the CEO on capital all…

How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
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How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions sys…

Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore
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Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore

Learn how to architect and deploy a production-ready multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for workflow orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon …

Bringing Conversational Analytics to your entire data ecosystem
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Bringing Conversational Analytics to your entire data ecosystem

Increasing the adoption of generative AI across the enterprise requires you to do more than deploy a generic chatbot with a custom wrapper. Interacting with bus…

Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation
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Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and m…

Bayer’s Sai Jasti on driving productivity in R&D with data science and AI
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Bayer’s Sai Jasti on driving productivity in R&D with data science and AI

Sai Jasti, Bayer’s senior vice president and head of data science and AI, on how the company is transforming its workflows and embedding AI in research and deve…

Why AI will elevate instead of replace commercial teams
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Why AI will elevate instead of replace commercial teams

Covestro’s chief commercial officer Monique Buch thinks of AI as a business strategy not a technology upgrade.…

Lessons in resilience, leadership, and trust: An interview with Kathy Roth-Douquet
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Lessons in resilience, leadership, and trust: An interview with Kathy Roth-Douquet

The Blue Star Families’ CEO explains what the military family experience reveals about the meaning of service and the relationships that can strengthen communit…

How Guardoc transforms medical document processing with Amazon Nova models
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How Guardoc transforms medical document processing with Amazon Nova models

In this post, we explore how Guardoc Health uses the Amazon Nova family of models, available through Amazon Bedrock, to transform clinical documentation in long…

Deepgram enhances Amazon SageMaker AI support with AWS IAM Temporary Delegation
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Deepgram enhances Amazon SageMaker AI support with AWS IAM Temporary Delegation

In this post, we cover why Deepgram built on IAM temporary delegation, how the integration works end-to-end, and what it unlocks for customers running Deepgram …

Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS
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Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS

Traditional RAG hits a ceiling on analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents. This post shows how to use task-aware knowledge compression (TAKC) on AWS to…

The global balance sheet 2026: Imbalance and divergence
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The global balance sheet 2026: Imbalance and divergence

Several asset classes grew further out of balance with the economy, raising the possibility of corrections through inflation, asset valuation losses, or, optima…

Rewired takes: How AI is unlocking creativity and heralding the rise of the agent manager
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Rewired takes: How AI is unlocking creativity and heralding the rise of the agent manager

Companies are reassessing how they work, their team structures, and what it means to be a manager in this bracing new era.…

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
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Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model

This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on …