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Governing AI with intention in the social impact sector

As AI adoption grows, mission-driven organizations must weigh how to adopt new capabilities without sacrificing the trust central to every donor relationship, c…

2026-08-17

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The Keyboard Is Dying on Schedule. The Text Box Is Next.

Fourteen months ago, I wrote that we were betting Wispr would kill the keyboard. The claim needed defending then; voice dictation had disappointed for decades. …

2026-08-17

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Building agentic workflows with SageMaker AI and Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to combine OpenAI-compatible endpoints on Amazon SageMaker AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime to build a multi-agent workflow where each special…

2026-08-14

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Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge

In multi-turn reinforcement learning, your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. This post shows how to design a composite multi-turn r…

2026-08-14

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How premium leisure travel is rewriting airline economics

Business class isn’t just for corporate travelers anymore. Affluent vacationers are splurging on premium cabins—and becoming one of the biggest drivers of airli…

2026-08-13

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Using BigQuery Graphs with measures for trusted agentic workloads

When enterprises transition from using simple chat assistants to autonomous, agentic workloads, they quickly run into a hard truth: Agents are prone to inaccura…

2026-08-13

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Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work

Amazon Quick is now available directly inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These extensions bring connected data access and agentic document …

2026-08-13

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Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build a multi-agent M&A due diligence system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a reference architecture that combines agent …

2026-08-13

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Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool

Learn how to automate legacy web applications that need human-like interaction using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents. This walkthrough …

2026-08-13

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Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability

Set up Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability for AI agents running outside AWS: on-premises, on GCP, on Azure, or on developer machines. This walkthrough uses …

2026-08-13

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Brilliant Moves: Coffee with Suzano CEO Beto Abreu

As both organizations begin their second century, Suzano’s Beto Abreu and McKinsey’s Tracy Francis discuss what it takes to lead for the next generation.…

2026-08-13

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Putting innovation—and patients—in focus: A conversation with Astellas Pharma CEO Naoki Okamura

The Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company is accelerating its pipeline by innovating at the intersection of biology, modality, and disease.…

2026-08-13

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How instant payments are transforming the financial landscape

Lessons from markets around the world can help commercial payments players keep pace with a rapidly evolving environment.…

2026-08-13

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Driving value with an investor mindset

Long-term value creation is foundational to building strong companies and economies, yet many leaders struggle to ensure that well-conceived, well-executed stra…

2026-08-13

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Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS

Learn how to visualize and analyze Amazon Bedrock cost attribution using Amazon Athena and CUDOS dashboards. This post shows how to set up CUR 2.0 with IAM prin…

2026-08-12

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How to maximize competitive advantage

Competitive advantage is becoming much more fluid as market positions shift faster across industries, with advantages eroding and differentiation narrowing. Des…

2026-08-12

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The $106 trillion infrastructure opportunity: Private market outlook

Infrastructure is at a pivotal inflection point: its definition is expanding beyond traditional assets to digital and interconnected systems, demanding a fundam…

2026-08-12

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Scaling minimobility: Industry leaders weigh in on what’s needed

We asked some of the leading players in minimobility to share their insights into what’s preventing broader adoption—and what could enable it. Here’s what they …

2026-08-12

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AI transformations run on trust

Technology may power AI transformation, but people determine whether it succeeds. Leaders can build trust through transparency, clarity, and investment in emplo…

2026-08-12

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Joseph Tsai: Putting customers at the heart of innovation

Joseph Tsai has reshaped Cathay United Bank by balancing innovation with a long-term view that consistently focuses on the customer.…

2026-08-12

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Improving private equity exit prospects

In today’s tougher exit environment, private equity firms are facing longer holding periods, valuation gaps, and increased pressure to return capital. Kai Vollh…

2026-08-12

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Tiered KV cache for large LLMs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Curvine

Running large language model inference at scale forces a KV cache trade-off: oversized GPU instances or slow time-to-first-token. This post builds a tiered KV c…

2026-08-12

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Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, where every transaction is authorized, attested in an AWS Nitro Enclave…

2026-08-12

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How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS

Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMake…

2026-08-12

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Built to Run: Doubling Down for Lovable’s $400M Series C

Last December, we co-led Lovable’s $330M Series B with a conviction: AI had opened software creation to the billion-plus knowledge workers who have ideas but ha…

2026-08-12

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The untapped prize: Asia’s high-net-worth insurance market

The competition for Asia’s high-net-worth-individual market is underway. Insurers are well-placed to address evolving customer needs.…

2026-08-12

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Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models…

2026-08-12

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How AI-led commercial transformation can power industrial growth

Industrial companies are entering the most consequential commercial reset in decades—and many are less prepared than they believe.…

2026-08-11

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First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By descri…

2026-08-11

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How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock

Photographers are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. Learn how Pixieset used Amazon Bedrock to launch an AI-generated alt text feature to mil…

2026-08-11