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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 API already gives you programmatic access to recommendations, but it assumes you know which parameters to set and how to interpret raw benchmark output. The UI removes that assumption.

The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents.

Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House earlier this month, she presented herself not just as a writer but also a “victim of crime”. The Stasiland author was using the analogy to illustrate how technology…

This post describes how Henry Schein One closed that gap by building Image Verify, an AI-powered quality verification system on Amazon SageMaker AI that evaluates dental X-ray quality at the point of capture, in real time, across thousands of locations. The system went from concept to over 10,000 active locations within months and has already processed over 11 million X-rays and growing at 1.5 million per week.

In this post, we show you how to combine case management with agentic automation capabilities in Quick Automate. We introduce case management and explore the lifecycle of cases in an agentic workflow from case creation through processing to resolution.

- Microsoft’s 2026 environmental report shows the cost of the AI buildout: total greenhouse gas emissions rose 25% in fiscal 2025, mainly due to new data-center infrastructure and a shift in electricity procurement. - The sharpest signal is purchased-electricity emissions: reported figures jumped 945%, while electricity use rose 24%.

- AWS shows an end-to-end blueprint for an ecommerce MCP server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, connected to Mistral AI Studio Vibe. - The server uses Python and FastMCP, runs as a stateless container in AgentCore Runtime, and exposes tools for product search, orders, reviews, returns, and order history. - Data sits in five DynamoDB tables; Cognito handles OAuth 2.1 identity.

- Google and Amazon are reporting rising emissions despite net-zero pledges: The Guardian cites Google up 25 percent year over year and Amazon up 16 percent. - Microsoft had already reported a 23 percent rise versus its 2020 baseline in 2025; Meta showed a 64 percent year-over-year jump despite its 2030 target.

- Three residents of Sturtevant, Wisconsin, have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over its $7.3 billion Fairwater data center in nearby Mount Pleasant. - The complaint alleges private nuisance and negligence. Residents say diesel generators, HVAC systems, chillers, cooling towers and fans create constant, excessive noise on their properties.

- Australian digital content designer Jodie Heenan made „Guardians of the Burrow“, a short wildlife documentary that is fully AI-generated while aiming to feel like traditional nature TV. - The film shows an Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog inside an underground burrow.

- Anthropic’s new Mythos and Fable models were offline for about 20 days after Amazon flagged a possible jailbreaking flaw to the U. government, Axios reports. - The Trump administration responded with broad export controls.

- Australia is facing pressure over a reported package in which Big Tech would invest more than $50bn in datacentres and create a $350m fund for creatives. - In return, tech companies want weaker copyright rules so they can use Australian music, journalism and books to train AI models. - Anthony Albanese’s government says it has no plan to weaken copyright.

- AWS outlines a Bedrock workflow for AI-generated phishing emails: SPF, DKIM and DMARC run first, then a model checks word choice, communication style and whether the request fits the context. - The system builds sender baselines: how a contact usually writes, what they normally ask for and who they communicate with. A first-ever payment change request gets treated as higher risk.

- AWS outlines how to make multi-turn reinforcement learning in SageMaker AI more reliable: build a reproducible sandbox first, set up external evaluation, then design rewards and train. - The post focuses on agents that use tools across several steps, such as support or moderation workflows. AWS argues that live systems are a bad training target because rollouts can cause side effects and unstable metrics.

- Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron in AWS GovCloud (US): gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, plus Nemotron Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, and Super 120B. - The models run inside the GovCloud boundary. In-Region inference is available in us-gov-west-1, while Geo Cross-Region routing spans us-gov-west-1 and us-gov-east-1 without using commercial AWS Regions.

- Meta is reportedly planning a cloud infrastructure business called Meta Compute, selling access to AI compute and potentially hosted models. - That would put Meta up against AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, while following SpaceX/xAI’s move to lease excess data center capacity to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI.

- Google’s new Google Home Speaker is its first smart speaker in six years: $99.99, compact, good-looking, solid sound for its size, with Matter controller and Thread border router support. - The hardware is the stronger part of the product. The speaker hears commands well, fits into rooms easily, and can pair with the Google TV Streamer, though its bass and overall audio trail larger speakers.

- AWS outlines five resilience patterns for GenAI apps on Amazon Bedrock: cross-Region inference, multiple AWS accounts, an LLM gateway, model fallback, load balancing, and multi-tenant quota isolation. - Cross-Region Inference automatically spreads requests across available Regions to reduce the impact of regional quotas and traffic spikes.

- Colorado’s 8th congressional district has turned into one of the state’s priciest Democratic primaries as tech-linked super PACs pour millions behind Manny Rutinel. - Rutinel is running as a progressive against more centrist Democrat Shannon Bird. His public pitch centers on affordability, Latino representation and ICE oversight, not AI.

- AWS describes a Bedrock pipeline for scanned yearbook pages: Amazon Nova 2 Lite detects photos, extracts visible names with coordinates, and returns page metadata in one call. - Claude Sonnet 4.6 then handles spatial matching: using the Nova JSON, the image, and page layout, it decides which name belongs to which face. - In a 336-page test, the pipeline produced 3,122 name-to-face associations.

- PAR outlines a production-grade text-to-SQL analytics agent on AWS for restaurant businesses, designed to separate tenants, businesses, admins, and location-level permissions. - The system uses three independent layers: AWS SigV4 for signed requests, Amazon Bedrock for semantic validation, and Split-Plane SQL for deterministic row-level data isolation. - The LLM never sees the raw Databricks schema.

- Axios reports that the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5. The model has been offline for 15 days after government security concerns. - One source says the limits could be lifted as soon as next week. Talks are expected to continue over the weekend, and Anthropic reportedly expects access to return soon.

- AWS presents Cara as a domain-specific AI platform for large insurance brokerages, built to automate back-office work such as applications, coverage comparisons, proposal creation, and renewals. - The system runs on Amazon EKS across multiple Availability Zones and uses Amazon Bedrock for LLM inference, avoiding the need to manage dedicated GPU infrastructure.

- Geeky Gadgets reports speculation that Fable 5 could return, but the article says there is no official confirmation yet. - The potential comeback is framed mainly around enterprise needs: cloud integration, access controls, scalability and data security.

- Amazon-owned MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI drama Artificial while it was nearly finished. The film reportedly portrayed Sam Altman unfavorably, raising questions about how tightly Amazon, OpenAI, and Hollywood interests now overlap.

- AWS presents „agentic overlays“ as thin wrappers that make existing REST services usable in A2A interactions while exposing REST endpoints as MCP-compatible tools. - The main idea is retrofit over rebuild: keep business logic unchanged, add agent-facing routes such as /. json and /a2a, and reuse the existing deployment path.

- In a sponsored IEEE Spectrum article, Capital One explains why Prem Natarajan moved from leading Amazon Alexa AI to becoming Chief Scientist at a bank: AI in finance is framed as research, not just model deployment. - The article points to real-time fraud detection, personalized customer guidance, agentic customer service and privacy-preserving model training as areas where generic foundation models fall short.

- AWS explains how to tune Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs for NVIDIA Blackwell: batch size, sequence length, precision format and activation checkpointing are the main levers. - The examples use P6-B200 instances with 8 Blackwell GPUs and PyTorch FSDP, focused on transformer models from 1B to 64B parameters.

- AWS shows how to run SeedVR2 video super resolution on Amazon SageMaker AI: upload video to an S3 input bucket, trigger Lambda, run a SageMaker processing job on an ml. g5.4xlarge GPU, and write the output back to S3. - The architecture is deployed with AWS CDK and includes VPC, IAM, KMS, encrypted S3 buckets, an ECR container, CloudWatch logs, and ComfyUI as the SeedVR2 inference layer.

- AWS shows an end-to-end workflow that loads movie review data from Amazon S3 into Snowflake and turns it into a semantic view with SQL. - That view defines relationships, dimensions, and metrics at the data layer, so BI dashboards and AI queries use the same business logic.

- NVIDIA and AWS are packaging several production AI infrastructure pieces: Amazon EC2 G7 with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, OpenSearch Serverless with NVIDIA cuVS, and validated GB300 training performance. - EC2 G7 is positioned as a step up from G6, with up to 4.6x AI inference performance, up to 2.1x graphics performance, and faster GPU analytics via cuDF on Amazon EMR.

- Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros. ’ Clockwork have reportedly passed on distribution deals for Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, a Sam Altman biopic. - Amazon MGM dropped the nearly finished film from its slate, despite reported plans for a 2026 awards run and a wider 2027 release.

- AWS presents Ampersend as a pay-per-intelligence stack for AI agents: an agent chooses a model tier through Ampersend, pays per request, and receives the result. - The payment layer uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, x402, USDC on Base, and wallet providers such as Coinbase CDP or Stripe Privy. The agent never handles private keys.

- AWS outlines a search architecture for Vexcels aerial imagery: tiles are embedded via Amazon Bedrock, indexed in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and queried with natural language. - The benchmark used OpenStreetMap as ground truth for Grant Park in Chicago and compared about 100 configurations across two query types: swimming pools as discrete objects and roads as distributed infrastructure.

- AWS published a CDK blueprint for running ComfyUI as a batch pipeline on SageMaker AI processing jobs: Lambda triggers the job, ECR serves the container, and outputs stream to S3. - The sample uses Z-Image Turbo in a ComfyUI workflow, six ml. xlarge GPU instances, 125 GB volumes, VPC private subnets, KMS encryption, and CloudWatch logs.

- The US government forced Anthropic on June 12 to shut down Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide. The official framing was export control and national security, not just access by specific foreign users. - The trigger was reportedly a non-public Amazon paper claiming researchers had found a way to use Fable 5 for security tasks despite its guardrails.

- Amazon MGM has reportedly dropped Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI film Artificial and is working with the filmmakers to find another studio. - The movie was set to cover the five chaotic days in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired as OpenAI CEO and then reinstated. - Andrew Garfield was attached as Altman, with Monica Barbaro as Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk, and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever.

- AWS is adding more than 100 detailed inference metrics for SageMaker AI in CloudWatch, covering GPU use, GPU memory, KV cache pressure, token latency, traffic distribution across Availability Zones, cold starts, and inference component placement. - New SageMaker endpoint configurations enable detailed observability by default.

- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness became generally available on June 18, 2026 and promises production agents through two API calls: CreateHarness to define one, InvokeHarness to run it. - The agent runs in an isolated environment with a filesystem and shell, can read files, execute commands, write code, and call external tools through Gateway or MCP.

- Amazon software engineers Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand testified before Seattle City Council in favor of limits on large data centers, citing a local law that protects employees from discrimination over political speech. - On June 10, one day after Seattle passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, Amazon called the three into Employee Relations meetings.

- AWS announced inline payload support for Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference on June 17, 2026, letting small inference inputs travel directly in the InvokeEndpointAsync request body. - For eligible jobs, teams no longer need to upload every input to Amazon S3 first and then pass an InputLocation reference into the async endpoint. - The raw inline payload limit is 128,000 bytes.

- AWS used its New York Summit to announce AWS Context, a coming service that maps relationships across data lakes, warehouses, databases, streams, and internal knowledge into a managed knowledge graph. - Agents are meant to query that graph at runtime through agentic search and MCP. Access is tied to IAM and Lake Formation permissions, so queries can be governed and audited.

- AWS introduced InvokeGuardrailChecks for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, letting developers call individual safety checks inside agentic workflows without creating or versioning guardrail resources first. - The API is detect-only. It does not block or mask content by itself, but returns scores that apps can use to decide whether to block, retry, escalate, log, or allow a step.

- SpaceX rose another 4.8% on Tuesday and reached a $2.659 trillion market value, according to FactSet. - In its first two full trading days, the company added about $537 billion in market cap. - That put SpaceX just ahead of Amazon.

- AWS is bringing P-EAGLE into SageMaker JumpStart, letting compatible models run as real-time endpoints with a pre-trained drafter head and no custom containers or manual drafter training. - Launch support covers GPT-OSS-120B, GPT-OSS-20B, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, and Gemma-4-31B-IT. The walkthrough uses Qwen3-Coder.

- SpaceX has agreed to buy Anysphere, the company behind AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion shortly after its Nasdaq debut. Anysphere investors are set to be paid in SpaceX stock, with closing expected in the third quarter of 2026. - SpaceX shares jumped after the IPO.

- AWS is adding Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family to Amazon Bedrock: three instruction-tuned Apache 2.0 open-weight models named Gemma 4 31B, 26B-A4B, and E2B. - All three variants support text and image input, built-in reasoning mode, and native function calling. The larger 31B and 26B-A4B models offer context windows up to 256K tokens.

- Geeky Gadgets frames GPT-6 as OpenAI’s attempt to regain momentum after Microsoft and Google allegedly shift more work to their own AI stacks. Microsoft is tied to Polaris, while Google is linked with Apple’s Gemini plans for Siri. - The article highlights larger context windows, redesigned reward pipelines and stronger long-term memory as the main GPT-6 promises.

- Axios reports that Anthropic took its top models Mythos and Fable offline after the Trump administration imposed strict export controls. Officials say the trigger was jailbreak risk and Anthropic's alleged failure to respect a cyber executive order. - On June 11, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the models could be jailbroken.

- Anthropic launched Fable 5 on June 9; only days later, access was cut off. Axios says the trigger was an Amazon report claiming parts of Mythos 5 could be jailbroken and posed a national security risk. - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other company contacts reached US officials Thursday night and Friday.

In this post, we explore how Rocket Close built a solution using Strands Agents, large language models (LLMs), Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. We cover solution features, the rationale for the technology stack, lessons learned, and the business impact at Rocket Close.

This post outlines the development of a cost-effective and scalable intelligent document processing pipeline on AWS, powered by Amazon Bedrock and its features. BDA is a managed service within Amazon Bedrock that automates the extraction of insights from documents.

AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) compressed engagement timelines from months to days, not by adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to an existing process, but by fundamentally rebuilding how we deliver from the inside out. In this post, we share how AWS ProServe became a frontier team, the practices that enabled it, and what your engineering organization can take from our experience.

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.

Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, Kiro CLI, and Kilo Code. This post walks through how Agent-EvalKit works across its six evaluation phases, using a travel research agent built with the Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock as a running example.

Today, we’re announcing the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities: a collection of AI agents and skills that make this possible for developers building on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. In this post, we explain how the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities accelerate the kernel development workflow.

This post shows engineering teams how to apply that principle to one of the most time-sensitive workflows in engineering: incident triage. You will build a custom incident triage assistant agent using Amazon Quick that orchestrates a response with the New Relic Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Asana through native integrations.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime gives each agent session its own isolated microVM with a persistent workspace, secure tool access through Gateway, and built-in observability—so you can run Claude Code, Codex, Kiro, and Cursor in parallel without sharing secrets, ports, or filesystems. Close the lid, go to dinner, and pick up where you left off tomorrow.

This blog has previously discussed FHE for ML inference in the post Enable fully homomorphic encryption with Amazon SageMaker endpoints for secure, real-time inferencing, but this post goes a little further. That previous post showed how to implement FHE-based inference 'from scratch' by hand-crafting a linear-regression algorithm using a low-level library called SEAL.

Judges like Colorado magistrate Maritza Braswell increasingly face stacks of filings drafted with AI tools by people without a lawyer. Many can't afford one or have cases too small to interest one. The catch: AI-written briefs often contain fabricated rulings and false citations, adding strain to already overloaded courts.

Amazon has unveiled a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that can be directed with natural language instead of specialized code. Workers can now assign it tasks the way they'd talk to a colleague. The upgrade is part of Amazon's broader automation push, as the e-commerce giant increasingly replaces human workers with robots designed for heavy lifting.

Amazon introduces Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution that proactively detects operational issues, dynamically tunes alarm thresholds, classifies alarms, auto-creates context-aware support cases, prevents duplicates, and sends targeted notifications to AI SRE teams. The post walks through the architecture and how to deploy it yourself.

In this post, you learn how to use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) together to improve the tool-calling accuracy of a small language model (SLM). The example uses Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs, so you can focus on training code instead of managing your own training infrastructure.

Fine-tuning a model for domain-specific tasks means boosting performance in one area without degrading its general capabilities, and that balance is harder to strike than it looks. This guide walks through picking the right customization strategy for your data and task, configuring the training parameters that matter most (learning rate, batch size, checkpointing), and catching the common mistakes that waste training runs and burn compute.

In this post, we walk through how to use Amazon Quick Research to integrate biomedical data sources for rare cancer research. The walkthrough uses pediatric sarcoma as the research domain and draws on publicly available datasets from PubMed and other open biomedical repositories.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.

Amazon’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI) has faced significant challenges, as highlighted by Brendan Dell. One notable issue is the company’s reliance on strict adoption metrics, such as requiring 80% usage of its internal AI coding system, Kira.

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’ Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying “it is a fucking genius at helping you” and “it’s going to be better than CGI”. Edwards was speaking at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organise…

Claude Opus 4.8 introduces practical updates for development workflows, including dynamic workflows with parallel sub-agents for tasks like code migration and bug detection. The release also reintroduces manual effort control so developers can allocate compute based on task complexity.

Azercell Telecom partnered with AWS to build a production-ready Azerbaijani LLM on Amazon SageMaker AI for telecom use cases and a customer-facing chatbot. The team had to adapt foundation models to a morphologically rich language with limited training data and no proven blueprint. A six-week collaboration with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center delivered the production framework.

Walk through building a custom portal with embedded SageMaker AI MLflow Apps UI, using a React frontend and a Flask reverse proxy for AWS Signature Version 4 authentication. The full stack is deployed via AWS CDK, then validated end to end. The piece also covers security considerations and cleanup procedures for a production setup.

This guide combines LangChain's work on evaluating deep agents with Anthropic's eval playbook into a hands-on workflow. You'll learn five evaluation patterns, build offline evals with pytest and LangSmith, and configure online monitoring for production. A text-to-SQL deep agent on Amazon Bedrock serves as the running example from development through deployment.

Claude's parent Anthropic raised $65bn in its latest round, landing a $965bn post-money valuation and overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup. The deal caps an exceptional growth period for the company once seen as a smaller player in the global AI race. Wide enterprise adoption – especially of Anthropic's coding assistants – has turned it into a dominant industry force.

Amazon demonstrates how to automate AML (anti-money-laundering) alert triage using Amazon Quick Flows, Snowflake Cortex, and the Quick Model Context Protocol (MCP). In Amazon's test environment, automated triage shrank alert investigation time from 30 to 90 minutes down to under 5. Actual results depend on alert complexity and data volume.

CNN has filed suit against Perplexity in New York, alleging that the AI answer engine generates "verbatim" copies of CNN articles and serves content normally locked behind the publisher's paywall. The complaint also claims Perplexity ignored CNN's attempts to block its crawlers. CNN insists that journalistic work cannot be reused without permission or compensation.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments is now in preview, aiming to standardize payments for AI agents: instant payouts to external paid services without per-provider billing setup, stablecoin support for sub-cent microtransactions, and configurable spending guardrails per agent. The post walks through the technical setup of budgets, transaction limits, and provider integrations in detail.

This post walks through how to build a multi-agent campaign review system step by step: NVIDIA NIM provides GPU-accelerated inference, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore brings managed runtime, shared memory and observability, and Strands Agents handle serverless multi-agent orchestration. The same architecture transfers to digital assistants, review automation, and RAG pipelines.

Classic US neighborhood watch programs are fading as AI-driven apps turn residential streets into digital surveillance zones. Ring doorbells, Nextdoor posts and license plate readers now replace block captains and porch meetings, making safety alerts faster and smarter but far more detached. Privacy advocates warn that the spread of surveillance tech is quietly hollowing out a basic form of civic life.

AWS walks through using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to connect Amazon Quick to AWS services via the AWS API MCP Server. The result is a conversational AI assistant that translates natural language into AWS CLI commands — letting ops teams stay in one tool during critical moments. Useful reference for cloud teams wiring agents into existing CLI workflows.

Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates daily briefings, podcasts, and playlists on your PC via chatbot prompts. It pulls from your Spotify listening history plus connected apps like email, calendar, and notes — and Spotify says the AI can take agent-style actions like web research and task completion. Launching as a research preview for users 18+ in the coming weeks.

Reporter Liz Lopatto spent a month covering the Musk v. Altman trial and describes the courthouse as a zoo, with protests outside every day. Both tech CEOs polarize strongly, attracting heavy media attention.

Amazon SageMaker AI adds OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. Users of the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or Strands Agents can now invoke models on SageMaker AI by changing only the endpoint URL — no custom client, SigV4 wrapper, or code rewrites required. The launch makes existing OpenAI-style code work directly against SageMaker endpoints, lowering migration cost between the two platforms.

The DOJ's lawsuit is part of a federal push to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreach. In April, the US Justice Department joined Elon Musk's xAI in suing Colorado to kill its AI anti-discrimination law. When the federal government sides with a billionaire against a state trying to protect residents from AI bias, it's no longer just a Colorado story.

Five charts illustrate how deeply ChatGPT has worked its way into everyday life in just two and a half years. New book releases, scientific papers and even self-filed lawsuits are surging in categories where users lean on the tool as a writing aid. At the same time, the speed of adoption raises hard questions about quality, originality and accountability.

A new lawsuit alleges Pizza Hut's AI-driven store control system is so dysfunctional it has wasted $100 million. The system was meant to optimize operations across thousands of locations but is described by plaintiffs as a costly disaster. The case highlights the gap between AI promises in retail automation and what large-scale rollouts actually deliver.

In this post, we show three ways to implement Programmatic tool calling (PTC) on Amazon Bedrock: a self-hosted Docker sandbox on ECS for maximum control, a managed solution using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter, and an Anthropic SDK-compatible path through a proxy for teams that prefer that developer experience.

A group of more than 60 loyal allies of President Trump is urging him to test and approve the most powerful AI models before they are released, according to a new letter shared first with Axios. The letter — signed by Steve Bannon and conservative anti-AI activists Amy Kremer and Brendan Steinhauser — puts a vocal faction of the MAGA base at odds with the White House's hands-off approach to AI.

Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley As tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the crosshairs. A trend is emerging: when tech CEOs announce that AI is making it possible to do more with fewer workers, they promise to flatten their structures by cutting away what they call unnecessary manage…

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered their closing arguments Thursday in the high-profile federal trial. The nine-person jury begins deliberations next week, with the outcome hinging on whether Sam Altman and OpenAI broke earlier agreements by restructuring the lab into a for-profit. A verdict could carry broad implications for governance at other AI labs.

Karen Hao argues that fixating on whether Altman is untrustworthy — or whether Musk is even less so — distracts from the deeper AI problem. The two ex-OpenAI co-founders are now in a vicious courtroom feud in California: Musk alleges Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman tricked him into funding the nonprofit before restructuring it into a for-profit entity.

The Cisco and AWS partnership addresses three challenges enterprises face when scaling AI agents: visibility gaps, security bottlenecks, and compliance risks. In this post, we explore how you can overcome AI security challenges through automated scanning and unified governance.

Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.

In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon FinTech teams are using Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services to build a scalable AI application to transform how regulatory inquiries are handled. Each team using this solution creates and maintains its own dedicated knowledge base, populated with that team's specific documents and reference materials.

AWS shows how to track FLOPs during LLM fine-tuning on Amazon SageMaker AI using the open source Fine-Tuning FLOPs Meter toolkit. A single config flag determines compliance status under the EU AI Act and generates audit-ready documentation. Useful for teams who want to prove regulatory standing without retroactive scrambling.

Anthropic announces general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, giving customers direct access to the native Claude experience through their AWS account, without separate credentials, contracts, or billing relationships. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer this native integration. The post explains how it works and how to start using it today.

Amazon has reportedly admitted that its flagship AI coding assistant is not strong enough for its own engineering teams to rely on day to day. The internal acknowledgement undercuts the product's external positioning and adds Amazon to a growing list of Big Tech companies whose AI coding tools fall short in real-world developer workflows. The report originates from Futurism.

Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial reveal rare communications between Microsoft's top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears the AI startup could 'storm off to Amazon' and 'shit-talk' Microsoft. Days after OpenAI's bot beat a Dota 2 pro in 2017, Sam Altman responded to Satya Nadella's congratulations email with a proposal for a far bigger partnership to fund OpenAI's next AI research phase.

Halliburton built a proof-of-concept on Amazon Bedrock that converts natural language queries into executable seismic workflows, with a Q&A capability over its Seismic Engine tools and documentation. Evaluation results show workflow acceleration of up to 95% versus manual creation.

AI systems like Anthropic's Mythos are surfacing software vulnerabilities that human pentesters miss — at a pace defenders struggle to match. Trump officials are now revisiting their hands-off stance, since the same tools also empower attackers. New rules for cyber-AI are on the table, balancing innovation against rising risk.

AWS shows how to reserve GPU capacity for short-term ML workloads using EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and Amazon SageMaker training plans. The setup is aimed at load testing, model validation, time-bound workshops or pre-staging inference capacity before a release. It addresses GPU availability issues without requiring long-term commitments.

Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructure AI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm. While businesses in the EU have generally lagged behind the US and China i…

Richard Dawkins and chatbots | LLM meaning | Flattery battery | Dancing in PE | Maths breakthrough The otherwise admirable Richard Dawkins should adjust the local settings of the chatbot or tell it to be less obsequious (Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it, 6 May). Such bots are initially geared to American overenthusiasm and egregiously flattering reinforcement, but just tell them you want British attitude.

Tomofun, the Taiwan-headquartered pet-tech startup behind the Furbo Pet Camera, is redefining how pet owners interact with their pets remotely. To reduce costs and maintain accuracy, Tomofun turned to EC2 Inf2 instances powered by AWS Inferentia2, the Amazon purpose-built AI chips. In this post, we walk through the following sections in detail.

Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit Apple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024. Plaintiffs accused the California tech giant of having “promoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not e…

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model Five major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models. Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pi…

Over a trillion dollars have flowed into AI, yet Meta, OpenAI and other big players are still pushing toward AGI and even artificial super intelligence — systems meant to match or exceed human capability. A favorite talking point: AI will cure cancer.

President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints. 15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most powerful new models on Earth. AI has crossed a threshold no administration can ignore, accelerated by a new class of models that can hunt cybersecurity flaws with extraordinary speed.

Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career. Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, as…

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an agentic experience: developers describe their use case in natural language, and an AI coding agent streamlines the full lifecycle – from data preparation and technique selection to evaluation and deployment. The post walks through the model customization workflow using SageMaker AI agent skills.

An investigation has found that an AI system used to estimate how much Kenyans can afford for healthcare has systematically driven up costs for the poorest. President William Ruto's flagship healthcare programme — meant to replace Kenya's decades-old national insurance system — launched in October 2024, but the algorithm favours wealthier citizens.

Elon Musk spent nearly three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it's already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, with more witnesses to come. Musk's argument: by converting OpenAI to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the original nonprofit mission.

The Pentagon has signed agreements with leading AI firms, including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, advancing military capabilities amid an ongoing dispute over safeguards. The deal marks another step toward tighter integration of commercial AI research with military use cases.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings. The Defense Department has left out Anthropic — which it previously used for classified information — after declaring it a supply-chain risk.

AWS introduces a systematic framework for migrating or upgrading LLMs in generative AI production, with tooling and best practices for prompt conversion and optimization. The goal is to make switching between models faster, less risky and more measurable for teams running AI workloads at scale.

Sun Finance built an AI-powered identity verification pipeline on Amazon Bedrock, Textract and Rekognition. Extraction accuracy rose from 79.7% to 90.8%, per-document costs dropped 91%, and processing time fell from up to 20 hours to under 5 seconds. Combining specialized OCR with LLM structuring outperformed using either tool alone, and a serverless fraud-detection layer uses vector similarity search.

AWS shows how an agentic AI assistant in Amazon QuickSight turns data analytics into a self-service capability. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for storage, SageMaker and Glue for the lakehouse, and Athena for serverless SQL across S3 Tables, Iceberg and Parquet, so business users can query data in natural language.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday, primarily for building AI data centers. And there's more to come: all four companies have signaled even larger investments in upcoming quarters, pushing hyperscaler capex into an entirely new tier.

PwC and AWS demonstrate how AI-driven annotation can dramatically speed up contract analysis. Critical clauses are often buried in lengthy, unstructured agreements — and that's exactly where this solution comes in: relevant passages are automatically detected, extracted, and surfaced for legal, compliance, and procurement teams. As contract volumes grow, this approach scales far better than manual review.

OpenAI's revised Microsoft pact lets it sell AI models across multiple clouds, enabling a likely expansion with Amazon and broader enterprise distribution. Why it matters: The shift ends OpenAI's effective cloud exclusivity, widening its reach to customers using AWS, Google Cloud or others — and intensifying AI platform competition.

In this post, we share how we applied Amazon Bedrock and the Amazon Nova family of models to reimagine our Title Suggestion feature. By combining metadata, computer vision, and retrieval-augmented generative AI, we now automatically generate creative, brand-aligned titles and subtitles across 12 languages.

In this post, we show how connecting the Visier Workforce AI platform with Amazon Quick through Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives every knowledge worker a unified agentic workspace to ask questions in. Visier helps ground the workspace in live workforce data and the organizational context that surrounds it while letting your users act on the conversational results without switching tools.

Today, we're excited to announce Claude Cowork in Amazon Bedrock. You can now run Cowork and Claude Code Desktop through Amazon Bedrock, directly or using an LLM gateway. In this post, we walk through how Claude Cowork integrates with Amazon Bedrock and show an example of how knowledge workers use it in practice.

In this post, we show how to combine DVC (Data Version Control), Amazon SageMaker AI, and Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps to build end-to-end ML model lineage. We walk through two deployable patterns — dataset-level lineage and record-level lineage — that you can run in your own AWS account using the companion notebooks.

Amazon announced the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. You can provision nodes with 1, 2, 4, and 8 GPU instances, with each GPU providing 96 GB of GDDR7 memory. This enables cost-effective hosting of large foundation models like GPT-OSS-120B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on a single node.

UK banks are set to gain access within days to Anthropic's new Claude Mythos model — previously deemed too dangerous for public release. Anthropic has limited access so far to a small group of primarily US companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. Senior finance figures have warned about the risks of deploying the powerful AI in regulated institutions as the rollout expands to British financial sector.

The White House and Anthropic are in active discussions about deploying the AI firm’s powerful new model, Mythos Preview, within the federal government — despite ongoing efforts to blacklist the company as a supply chain risk. Anthropic is in a bitter feud with the Pentagon, but even U.

AWS examines how generative AI can address retail's key challenge: helping online shoppers visualize product fit and appearance to reduce returns and boost purchase confidence. AI-powered interactive experiences aim to bridge the gap between online and in-store retail.

Amazon Bedrock's Automated Reasoning checks use formal verification to deliver mathematically proven results, overcoming the limitations of probabilistic AI validation in regulated industries. Six industries already use the technology to produce formally verified, auditable AI outputs.

In this post, we walk through how Guidesly built Jack AI on AWS using AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon SageMaker AI, and Amazon Bedrock to ingest trip media, enrich it with context, apply computer vision and generative AI, and publish marketing-ready content across multiple channels—securely, reliably, and at scale.

Apple isn't burning mountains of cash to buy GPUs for the sake of training AI models and processing prompts. Nor is it investing huge sums in frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic, as are rivals like Amazon and Microsoft. Why it matters: Apple may reap the rewards of everyone else's spend.

The legal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is intensifying ahead of trial later this month. OpenAI accused Musk of orchestrating a last-minute "legal ambush" with new proposals designed to inject chaos into the proceedings. At stake is whether OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit structure contradicts its original nonprofit mission – a question with major implications for AI governance broadly.

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler.