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IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI
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IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking inf…

How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry
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How AI is reshaping the future of the AEC industry

AI is poised to rewire the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. Firms that move quickly to reimagine workflows, improve data use, and automate wo…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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 …

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 …

Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund
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Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund

Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 1…

AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses
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AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses

New research shows how 4 million Americans use ChatGPT to start, run, and grow small businesses, lowering the cost of entrepreneurship with AI.…

Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud
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Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever trie…

OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken
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OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company…

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.…

ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human
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ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human

OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which d…

Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much
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Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much

xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer t…

Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera
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Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera

Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera. Tra…

Building and connecting a production-ready ecommerce MCP server using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio
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Building and connecting a production-ready ecommerce MCP server using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio

In this post, you build and connect that server end to end. You will implement MCP tools, set up two-layer JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, deploy with AWS …

Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research
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Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research

In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generat…

Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF
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Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF

This post shows you two architecture patterns that address this problem. Both use an internet-facing ALB with AWS WAF and route traffic through a VPC Interface …

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness
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NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration pla…

Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick
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Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through how multi-dataset Topics work, explain how the chat agent uses defined relationships to generate cross-dataset queries, and demons…

Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat
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Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat

This post is for data architects, business intelligence (BI) engineers, and analytics engineers building or optimizing Quick Sight Topics for natural-language C…

Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
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Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

In this post, we shift from concepts to patterns. For each schema, you’ll find a table structure, use cases, implementation steps, and sample SQL queries. We al…

Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
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Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

Today, we are excited to announce Multi-Dataset Relationships in Amazon Quick Sight. This new capability lets you define logical relationships between Quick Sig…

Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick
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Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through what Dataset Enrichment is, how it differs from legacy Topics, and provide three migration scenarios with step-by-step guidance so…

Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens
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Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens

Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using a new …

Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
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Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers

Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all…

Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are a…