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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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Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell
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Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch …

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services
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Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services

In this technical collaboration between AWS and the authors, we present a pragmatic solution: agentic overlays. Agentic overlays are thin wrapper layers that tr…

Frontiers of compute: The technologies to reduce AI inference costs
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Frontiers of compute: The technologies to reduce AI inference costs

AI’s next breakthrough may not be a smarter model but a cheaper token.…

Unlocking full potential: Five practices reshaping PE value creation
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Unlocking full potential: Five practices reshaping PE value creation

The half-life of the initial deal thesis is shrinking. Private equity firms are shifting toward a more adaptive, execution-led model that reshapes value creatio…

How TITAN Group’s CEO is transforming a century-old company
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How TITAN Group’s CEO is transforming a century-old company

As the first outside leader of the family-founded business, Marcel Cobuz has made some tough decisions about what to keep and what to change. His formula seems …

How companies can strengthen their geopolitical risk readiness
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How companies can strengthen their geopolitical risk readiness

Survey results reveal a widening gap between leaders’ assessment of their risk exposure and responsiveness. Five actions can help leaders prepare for a range of…

What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies
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What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies

Even before the Middle East conflict began, geopolitics surged as the foremost investor concern. AI disruption and capital allocation discipline are also top of…

How KPN is building an agentic AI engine for customer care
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How KPN is building an agentic AI engine for customer care

By transforming its contact center with agentic AI, the leading Dutch telecom company is strengthening quality, improving efficiency, and building AI capabiliti…

AI-powered BI with Snowflake and Amazon Quick
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AI-powered BI with Snowflake and Amazon Quick

In this post, you will learn how to build an end-to-end integration between Snowflake semantic views and Amazon Quick. The sample data is user review data for a…

Build a healthcare appointment agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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Build a healthcare appointment agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, you will learn how to build a voice agent that handles appointment reminder conversations using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. …

Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS
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Huntington Bank: Redacting sensitive data from 400M+ documents with AWS

In this post, we walk through how Huntington built a scalable AWS solution to detect and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Indus…

How Loka Built a Natural, Low-Latency Voice Agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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How Loka Built a Natural, Low-Latency Voice Agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we demonstrate the architecture and approach Loka used to solve a common frustration: robotic, slow voice assistants that cause customers to hang …

AI-powered software development: How technology is rewriting the rules
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AI-powered software development: How technology is rewriting the rules

From individual productivity hacks to full workflow and role reinvention—three McKinsey experts explain how AI is changing the creation of software and what sep…

Resolve AI CEO Spiros Xanthos: AI’s impact on software production systems
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Resolve AI CEO Spiros Xanthos: AI’s impact on software production systems

Automating software’s deployment, production, and monitoring systems has been challenging. Resolve AI’s CEO explains how AI could improve reliability, pace, and…

Keeping The Front Door of Healthcare Open: Our Investment in Assort Health
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Keeping The Front Door of Healthcare Open: Our Investment in Assort Health

Walk into any outpatient practice in America and you’ll find “the binder.” Inches thick, worn soft from years of use, stuffed with Post-it notes that contain th…

Five client-led shifts reshaping European wealth management
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Five client-led shifts reshaping European wealth management

Survey results point to changing consumer preferences that are disrupting and transforming the industry in Europe—and highlight the need for a new set of strate…

Beyond productivity: How AI creates value in private equity
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Beyond productivity: How AI creates value in private equity

Private equity–backed companies that broadly embrace AI have median revenue multiples more than twice those of companies focused solely on productivity initiati…

Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you will learn patterns for implementing production-ready multi-tenant systems using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will see these patterns demonst…

Verifiable, private AI: Google Cloud expands Confidential Computing frontiers
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Verifiable, private AI: Google Cloud expands Confidential Computing frontiers

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing crypto…

Build a protein research copilot with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Build a protein research copilot with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

This post shows you how to build a conversational protein research assistant that combines three capabilities: Natural language query parsing to extract structu…

Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI
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Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI

Fifty years ago, Menlo made its first bet on a future that had not yet arrived. In 1976, venture capital was still more craft than industry, but that didn’t sto…

AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact
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AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact

As companies push their AI pilots to scale, data is emerging as a constraint. Leaders are prioritizing data readiness, connecting structured and unstructured da…

Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix
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Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix

Capturing Central Europe’s AI opportunity
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Capturing Central Europe’s AI opportunity

AI is advancing too quickly to remain a side initiative for businesses. Central European companies can get ahead by redesigning business domains—and the organiz…

State of the Consumer 2026: When tech acceleration and cost pressures collide
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State of the Consumer 2026: When tech acceleration and cost pressures collide

The consumer is changing fast. Four trends—the tech-driven path to purchase, the health revolution, the experience economy, and the resourceful consumer—will re…

How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue
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How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments
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Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. AI agents autonomously route …

Capturing growth in a fragmented world
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Capturing growth in a fragmented world

CEOs who act nimbly and know where to place their bets can gain a competitive edge amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.…

Running ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs
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Running ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs

In this post, we walk you through how to deploy ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs to generate hundreds of high-quality images in a single…

Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale
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Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale

In this post, we walk through the problem space, our architecture on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the evaluation methodology we built on Ope…