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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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Capturing life cycle value in Europe’s trucking industry
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Capturing life cycle value in Europe’s trucking industry

The vast majority of Europe’s truck-related revenue flows after a vehicle is sold. Capturing that value presents a major growth opportunity.…

Mastering autonomous truck technology in Europe
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Mastering autonomous truck technology in Europe

The advent of autonomous trucks and buses is set to define new form factors and business models, but Europe risks falling behind.…

Zero-emission trucks: Accelerating Europe’s transition
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Zero-emission trucks: Accelerating Europe’s transition

Challenges across the ecosystem delay the transition to zero-emission trucks, resulting in rising pressure on European OEMs due to potential CO2 penalties and g…

Competing in the fast lane—the future of Europe’s truck industry
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Competing in the fast lane—the future of Europe’s truck industry

The rules of the road are changing fast for Europe’s truck industry. Here’s how it can compete in an age of AI, disruption, and automation.…

Harnessing AI to accelerate European truck operations
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Harnessing AI to accelerate European truck operations

Agentic and physical AI can rewire the commercial vehicle industry for next-level performance and competitiveness.…

Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build and deploy an MCP App with interactive HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Because MCP Apps is a host-agnostic standard, the same serve…

Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload
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Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload

Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness…

Monitoring production agent lifecycle with AWS DevOps Agent and AgentCore Evaluations
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Monitoring production agent lifecycle with AWS DevOps Agent and AgentCore Evaluations

Multi-agent systems fail in ways traditional monitoring misses. This post presents a dual-layer approach to monitoring production agents: Amazon Bedrock AgentCo…

Strategic re-underwriting in private equity
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Strategic re-underwriting in private equity

Private equity firms are under increasing pressure to create value in a tougher market, with longer hold times and evolving value creation theses. Leading funds…

The future of US manufacturing
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The future of US manufacturing

A quarter of America’s manufactured imports face critical trade dependencies. Strengthening US manufacturing will depend not only on capital but also on talent,…

Strategy in the age of arenas
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Strategy in the age of arenas

A group of fast-growing industries is reshaping the competitive landscape. Their rise requires business leaders to rethink strategy in two important ways.…

The speed problem: How frontier AI exposes weakness in enterprise cybersecurity
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The speed problem: How frontier AI exposes weakness in enterprise cybersecurity

Attackers now move at machine speed, but organizations make decisions at committee speed. To close the gap, businesses need a different operating model and comm…

Video and image search in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base using Marengo 3.0
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Video and image search in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base using Marengo 3.0

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, bringing fully managed natural language search …

Reduce inference cold starts on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with model caching
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Reduce inference cold starts on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with model caching

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for inference, which pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods read from loca…

Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference
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Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference

Amazon SageMaker Inference now offers prefix-aware routing, a routing strategy that sends requests sharing the same prompt prefix to the same instance so the KV…

Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop
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Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop

Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations stay private Today, the Amazon Quick desk…

Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate
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Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate

Learn how to build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow with Amazon Quick Automate. Read a multi-tab RFI workbook from Amazon S3, use natural-language promp…

Winning: What the best athletes, teams, and coaches do differently
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Winning: What the best athletes, teams, and coaches do differently

Eight disciplines for defining success, building the system to achieve it, and finding an edge when the margin between good and great is razor-thin.…

Capturing untapped value in capital-intensive industries
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Capturing untapped value in capital-intensive industries

Maintenance outages remain one of the largest, most complex performance drivers for operators. Here’s how digital and AI can help.…

How AvioBook builds turnaround insights from operational data with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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How AvioBook builds turnaround insights from operational data with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AvioBook, a Thales Group Company, prototyped Connected Analytics on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn AvioBook Connect's operational data into plain-language, ev…

Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations
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Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations

Multi-turn agents fail in ways single-turn evaluation misses: one early mistake corrupts every later turn. This post introduces the Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM…

Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs
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Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs

A configurable, model-agnostic detector that turns any large language model on Amazon Bedrock into a PII detector. Because the entities to detect live in a prom…

Brilliant Moves: Coffee with Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn
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Brilliant Moves: Coffee with Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn

Drawing on two decades of collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group’s Charlie Nunn and McKinsey’s Tunde Olanrewaju explore how trust, curiosity, and optimism help lea…

Procurement at the decision-making table: A talk with Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta
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Procurement at the decision-making table: A talk with Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta

Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta shares how a persistently uncertain world has driven an evolution in the role and capabilities of procurement.…

The power conversion market: Decarbonization and growth opportunities
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The power conversion market: Decarbonization and growth opportunities

Efficient, reliable power conversion technologies are critical for global electrification. With an expected value pool of about $95 billion in 2030, opportuniti…

Is progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?
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Is progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?

A new podcast series based on the McKinsey Global Institute’s most recent book explains why another century of broad-based human progress is within reach.…

The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change
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The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change

AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact helps us see what could influence…

Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
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Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

Learn how to deploy Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. This walkthrough covers cluster provi…

Author Talks: Why leadership intelligence matters in the AI age
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Author Talks: Why leadership intelligence matters in the AI age

Lessons from cognitive science can help leaders become wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient. McKinsey Senior Adviser Caroline Webb explains why human intel…

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026
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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Reg…