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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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Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI
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Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI

In an era of rapid AI disruption, the winners may not be the companies that predict the future most accurately, but those that learn, reallocate resources, and …

Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI
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Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark…

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova
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Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including …

Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
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Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

In this post, you deploy a two-phase infrastructure for multi-turn RL using Amazon Nova Forge on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. By the end, you have an event-driven…

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
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Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers …

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle
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Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into …

A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity
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A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity

Overcoming scale-related barriers and strengthening ties with other firms—both large and small—can help small businesses in Chile maximize their potential and n…

How Covista is changing education for healthcare professionals
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How Covista is changing education for healthcare professionals

Chairman and CEO Steve Beard explains how the organization’s multiyear transformation has reshaped its purpose, structure, and culture.…

A dual transformation agenda for Europe’s chemicals industry
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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…

The real future of work in healthcare
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The real future of work in healthcare

Healthcare is in a productivity crisis that more hiring and more technology alone will not solve. The next era of care depends on making automation work through…

Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI
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Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evalua…

How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing
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How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new chall…

The serial builder advantage: Why repeat innovators win
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The serial builder advantage: Why repeat innovators win

New McKinsey research explains why organizations that repeatedly build new ventures outperform those that approach innovation as a one-off effort.…

How Miro is redefining collaboration across the product development life cycle
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How Miro is redefining collaboration across the product development life cycle

Miro cofounder and CEO Andrey Khusid reflects on the company’s evolution from a digital whiteboard to an AI-powered workflow platform—and how AI is reshaping co…

What to read next McKinsey’s 2026 annual book recommendations
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What to read next McKinsey’s 2026 annual book recommendations

McKinsey Global Publishing’s annual reading list is back, featuring compelling recommendations from a diverse group of leaders across the world. Our contributor…

McKinsey Global Publishing’s 2026 book picks
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McKinsey Global Publishing’s 2026 book picks

We asked McKinsey Global Publishing and Marketing colleagues to share what’s on their bookshelves this year—here’s what they said.…

AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings
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AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leadin…

Building a serverless A2A gateway for agent discovery, routing, and access control
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Building a serverless A2A gateway for agent discovery, routing, and access control

In this post, you will learn how to build a serverless A2A gateway on AWS that hosts multiple agents behind a single domain using path-based routing (/agents/{a…

Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
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Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

We're excited to introduce US-based frontier open-weight models in AWS GovCloud (US). With this release, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OS…

Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI
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Accelerate protein design with BoltzGen on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy BoltzGen on SageMaker AI and run an end-to-end protein design experiment. By the end of the walkthrough, you have a w…

Simplify model selection in Amazon Bedrock with the open source Model Profiler
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Simplify model selection in Amazon Bedrock with the open source Model Profiler

The Amazon Bedrock Model Profiler is an open source tool that aggregates model metadata from multiple AWS APIs and external sources into a single, searchable in…

How Inscribe uses Amazon Bedrock to stop document fraud in seconds
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How Inscribe uses Amazon Bedrock to stop document fraud in seconds

In this post, you will learn how Inscribe developed an agentic AI system using Amazon Bedrock that reasons across documents the way an expert fraud analyst woul…

HippoRAG: Neurobiologically inspired RAG using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Neptune, and personalized PageRank
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HippoRAG: Neurobiologically inspired RAG using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Neptune, and personalized PageRank

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement HippoRAG using a comprehensive AWS stack. We use Amazon Bedrock for LLM capabilities, Amazon Neptune for graph dat…

Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory
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Structured memory filtering with metadata in AgentCore Memory

In this post, you will learn how metadata works across configuration, ingestion, and retrieval, explore enterprise use cases including multi-agent and multi-ten…

Lights, camera, algorithm: How AI is rewriting the rules of film and TV
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Lights, camera, algorithm: How AI is rewriting the rules of film and TV

Artificial intelligence is reshaping film and TV production from script to screen—but the biggest disruptions may not be the ones anyone is predicting.…

Closing the women’s health gap: The United Kingdom’s £36 billion opportunity
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Closing the women’s health gap: The United Kingdom’s £36 billion opportunity

Closing the women’s health gap in the United Kingdom could result in ten more healthy days of life per year for every woman—and potentially boost the country’s …

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud
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Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at…

Suphachai Chearavanont: Bold moves in innovation-driven transformation
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Suphachai Chearavanont: Bold moves in innovation-driven transformation

In striving for business growth while creating value for society, Suphachai Chearavanont has based his leadership strategy on looking beyond short-term gains to…

Betsy Nabel on physicians and women in healthcare leadership roles
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Betsy Nabel on physicians and women in healthcare leadership roles

Betsy Nabel, a leader and advocate for women in healthcare, reflects on the moves she’s made in her career to stay true to herself while creating lasting impact…

Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers
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Safely Releasing Frontier Models to Customers

It’s our goal for AWS to be the most secure place to run any workload, and in support of that we’ve been deeply investing in security across our services since&…