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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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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…

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

Scaling medical content review at Flo Health with Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
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Scaling medical content review at Flo Health with Amazon Bedrock – Part 2

In this post, we share how Flo Health’s engineering team turned a proof of concept (PoC) from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center into a production-grade, A…

Rewiring customer experience for the agentic era
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Rewiring customer experience for the agentic era

As AI agents take on moment-to-moment decisions, leading companies are redesigning customer experience from predefined journeys to dynamic, cross-channel orches…

Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation?
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Building expertise in the age of AI: Who trains the next generation?

As AI reshapes entry-level work, organizations should rethink how expertise is developed by integrating knowledge management, role design, learning, and coachin…

Is that AI agent worth it? Agentic economics and the modern operating model
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Is that AI agent worth it? Agentic economics and the modern operating model

As companies focus on spiraling AI costs, they need to make sure not to lose sight of the real prize.…

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from OpenAI are generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Amazon Bedr…

Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
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Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

How a 180-year-old news institution prepares for its next reinvention
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How a 180-year-old news institution prepares for its next reinvention

Associated Press CEO Daisy Veerasingham discusses AI, the economics of trusted content, and why preserving editorial independence matters more than preserving a…

Launching UI for generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI
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Launching UI for generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we introduce the UI for optimized generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI Studio, a low-code no-code (LCNC) experience. The…

Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
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Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Building multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Apply fine-grained access control with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptors establish the conce…

Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock
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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…

When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
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When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powere…

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs
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Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, beca…

How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate
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How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate

McKinsey’s Alex Wolkomir discusses how housing leaders can win with AI by improving customer experiences, redesigning workflows, and building trust between part…

Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption
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Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption

McKinsey Senior Partner Brooke Weddle explores how companies are successfully scaling their AI programs.…

Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention
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Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has gotten off to a very hot start. Europe has baked under record-breaking temperatures, while a “heat dome” blankets much of …

Building a more resilient industrial base may require $2 trillion in investment
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Building a more resilient industrial base may require $2 trillion in investment

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, intensifying technological competition and geopolitical risks have resurfaced a decades-old question with…

Frontier and Center: Who evaluates the evaluations?
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Frontier and Center: Who evaluates the evaluations?

Editor’s note: Some of the most interesting questions in AI are being asked by information theoreticians, around how to provide context to an emerging class of …

Fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models with Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization
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Fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models with Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization

In this post, we explore what makes the Nemotron 3 architecture unique, walk through the fine-tuning techniques available, and show you step-by-step how to get …