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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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Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
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Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

In this post, we walk through the three pillars that make this possible: simplified setup, smarter retrieval, and production readiness. We also show you code ex…

Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we show you how to build a voice ordering system that answers a phone number and takes the order from greeting to confirmation. The system uses Am…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial rol…

Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades
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Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades

Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model …

Amid volatility, oil and gas M&A abounds. Here’s how to capture full value
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Amid volatility, oil and gas M&A abounds. Here’s how to capture full value

Envisioning the deal’s full potential and sequencing integration initiatives makes the most of the current wave of oil and gas mergers and combinations.…

What the 2026 World Cup reveals about the next generation of sports fans
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What the 2026 World Cup reveals about the next generation of sports fans

This year’s tournament offers a window into consumers’ changing behaviors, desire for community, and focus on identity—especially among Latino fans. Are busines…

Menlo’s Investment in Fireworks: The Runtime for Specialized Intelligence
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Menlo’s Investment in Fireworks: The Runtime for Specialized Intelligence

AI inference is quickly becoming one of the largest markets in the world, and Fireworks is leading the expansion with its platform for specialized intelligence …

How B.TECH transformed into a technology-powered retailer
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How B.TECH transformed into a technology-powered retailer

The Egyptian electronics retailer partnered with McKinsey to reinvent customer commerce through AI-powered pricing, fulfillment, and fintech—unlocking rapid gro…

The future of B2B sales: How growth champions rewire their playbooks with AI
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The future of B2B sales: How growth champions rewire their playbooks with AI

AI pilots are everywhere, but value is not. Growth leaders rewire commercial impact journeys with agentic AI, enabling sellers to deepen customer relations and …

How can the public sector meet the AI moment?
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How can the public sector meet the AI moment?

AI can help public sector agencies improve outcomes for residents and make every taxpayer dollar go further. But realizing that potential requires moving beyond…

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
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Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom …

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers
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Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers

In this post, we walk you through the Computer Vision MCP Server, which illustrates this approach, representing how AI systems can process visual information an…

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance
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Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Built partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), AWS Partner AND Digital, and AWS account teams to create a scalable, AI-powered document…

Is commercial aerospace ready for a demand reckoning?
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Is commercial aerospace ready for a demand reckoning?

A new survey reveals a widening gap between airline sentiment and the rest of the value chain.…

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI
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IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking inf…

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)
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Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)

Why AI apps fail in production (and how Google solved it) We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs…

The ‘bridge builder’ COO: Delivering results by engaging stakeholders
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The ‘bridge builder’ COO: Delivering results by engaging stakeholders

Today’s COOs work with an increasingly broad set of stakeholders. Success means understanding the “why” that drives each one.…

How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry
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How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry

AI is poised to rewire the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. Firms that move quickly to reimagine workflows, improve data use, and automate wo…

Gigafactory delivery on time: Solving the SOP delay challenge
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Gigafactory delivery on time: Solving the SOP delay challenge

Battery plants are essential for the energy transition. Most miss their ramp-up deadlines, however. Here’s how to fix the delivery model.…

The future of delivering software as a medical device
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The future of delivering software as a medical device

Software is reshaping how medtech organizations create value. A new approach to quality assurance during software-as-a-medical-device development, supported by …

Patrick Finn on how tension can lead to healthcare’s reinvention
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Patrick Finn on how tension can lead to healthcare’s reinvention

McKinsey Senior Partner Patrick Finn examines the current unique moment in healthcare and why AI could help reshape who leads healthcare’s next era.…

The CEO’s role in transformation
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The CEO’s role in transformation

Transformations often falter due to internal dynamics that divide organizations, such as misaligned incentives, siloed efforts, and risk aversion. CEOs are uniq…

How consumers are reshaping the future of mobility
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How consumers are reshaping the future of mobility

Our recent survey reveals shifting consumer priorities, with rising expectations for affordability, sustainability, and technology and greater openness to new b…

How physician CEOs hone the double-edged sword of clinical training
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How physician CEOs hone the double-edged sword of clinical training

The journey from physician to CEO has no prescribed path, but those who’ve reached the top reveal how they evolved the strengths and instincts forged in clinica…

Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software
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Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were fo…

Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
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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 …

Scaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis
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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 …

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 2
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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…

Defense at Machine Speed: The Emerging Architecture Powering AI-Native Cybersecurity
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Defense at Machine Speed: The Emerging Architecture Powering AI-Native Cybersecurity

Over the last six months, it seems like every security-oriented conversation has distilled down into one core question: What happens to defense when attackers a…

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