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The CMO as impact driver: A conversation with Genentech CMO Zoë Lazarre

Genentech’s chief marketing officer discusses AI, the future of marketing, patient trust, and why growth depends as much on culture as technology.…

2026-09-17

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Aftershocks: Energy security beyond the Strait of Hormuz crisis

The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver.…

2026-09-17

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Europe’s new AI edge? The emerging application layer opportunity

As enterprises shift from experimenting with models to redesigning workflows, new research suggests Europe could be well-positioned for this new AI application …

2026-09-17

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Anchor or drift: What it takes to capture wallet share in 2026

Client loyalty evolves quickly. Leading banks are reclaiming the 12 to 25 percent of wallet share that changes hands every year instead of letting it drift.…

2026-09-16

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Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx

Integrate NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) into PyTorch FSDP training on Amazon EKS to overlap checkpoint I/O with training and recover from GPU faults in sec…

2026-09-16

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Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills

AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This pos…

2026-09-16

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Build a serverless PII redaction pipeline with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Learn how to automate end-to-end PII detection and redaction from scanned documents at scale using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation with a custom blueprint, AWS S…

2026-09-16

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Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch…

2026-09-16

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google monitors AI threats and advances AI defenses

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are usi…

2026-09-16

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How Orange uses agents to make FinOps everyone's responsibility

At Orange, the leading France-based multinational telecom provider, there are days when engineering teams set aside their delivery backlogs and spend the day cl…

2026-09-16

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The agentic transformation office: Redefining the economics of change

Successful transformations no longer require an army of people at the center.…

2026-09-16

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2026: The State of Consumer AI

Consumer AI Adoption Hardly Grew in 2026, But Spend Tripled Last year, consumer AI broke into the mainstream. This year, adoption barely moved—even as spending …

2026-09-16

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The decade to redefine UK banking

UK banks have never been more profitable—but have rarely been more exposed. Success depends on securing customers and deposits, winning the commercial transacti…

2026-09-16

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Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker A…

2026-09-15

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Build an AI-powered product tagging system with Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization

Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and …

2026-09-15

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Optimizing cost and latency with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching

Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through …

2026-09-15

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Author Talks: Read the room before you lead it

Are the signals that shape power, trust, and influence hiding in plain sight? Calibrate CEO Pamela Meyer says spotting them can help leaders avoid missteps and …

2026-09-15

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The strategic new arenas reshaping insurance

AI is not the only significant driver of change for insurers: 18 high-growth industries present major new opportunities even as they reconfigure industry econom…

2026-09-15

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Backbones and networks: A blueprint for the biopharma plant of the future

As their portfolios become more complex and productivity gains slow, biopharma manufacturers are investing heavily to keep pace with rising demand. But capacity…

2026-09-15

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Andrew McAfee on AI, jobs, and ‘permissionless innovation’

What if the biggest risk isn’t too much technological progress—but too little?…

2026-09-15

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McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2026

Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2026? Our annual report highlights the latest technology innovations, developments, and talent trends a…

2026-09-15

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Manage end-user OAuth consent for AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks thro…

2026-09-15

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Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale

Learn how Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat de…

2026-09-15

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Automate replenishment with MMF, Databricks Genie, and Amazon Quick

Foundation models made catalog-wide demand forecasting easy; the hard part is now acting on the forecast. This post builds a closed detect-decide-act loop on Da…

2026-09-14

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The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS

Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-trai…

2026-09-14

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How Ninth Wave built AI-powered open finance onboarding on Amazon Bedrock

Learn how Ninth Wave built Compass, a multi-agent AI onboarding assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that validates bank APIs against Financial Data Exchange (…

2026-09-14

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Stacking the odds: A blueprint for successfully scaling agentic AI

Many enterprises are scaling AI agents faster than they are redesigning the work underneath. A detailed blueprint supports the rollout and lays the groundwork f…

2026-09-14

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Australia’s next century of plenty

Australia’s prosperity has been built through deliberate choices, investment, and reinvention. After a lost decade of growth, the nation can draw on its strengt…

2026-09-14

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LNG buyers’ sentiment: Disruption and implications for procurement

In the wake of disruption to transit in the Strait of Hormuz, buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are anticipating shifts in their procurement strategies. Her…

2026-09-12

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Competing against Chinese innovation speed in European trucking

Chinese truck OEMs are building an inevitable presence in Europe—what their advantages are and how European truck OEMs could remain competitive…

2026-09-11