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Learn how to run OpenAI GPT-6 Sol, Luna, and Astra on Amazon Bedrock through global cross-Region inference from Singapore, Jakarta, Thailand, Malaysia, and Taipei. This post covers the Converse and OpenAI-compatible APIs, IAM and SCP permissions, quota sizing, and monitoring inference from your source Region.
Learn how to deploy decision models with llama. cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI. This technical how-to serves OpenAI-compatible chat completions with the AWS Deep Learning Container for llama.
Learn how to deploy one large language model across two GPU nodes on Amazon EKS using the multi-node Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers, with separate prefill and decode nodes behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The pre-built container ships the full inference stack, so you configure the deployment instead of assembling it.
Building an AI agent that works in a demo is a different problem from running one for 40 million developers. Postman and AWS share the architectural patterns behind Agent Mode: controlling tool sprawl, exposing schema-based reads, and treating context as the real bottleneck, plus how it runs on Amazon Bedrock at scale.
Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena – the climate crisis and AI – pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments gives AI agents a managed way to pay for services on demand, with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure. See how Incarna's agents pay BlockRun for model inference one request at a time over x402, cutting the work of adding x402 payment support from months to days.
Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with cross-Region inference and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails delivers trusted AI at global scale.
Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can retrieve with metadata filters.
AWS invests in tools that help customers align with international standards for responsible AI governance. In this post, we explore the AI system impact assessment: what it is, how it improves enterprise-wide risk management, and how ISO/IEC 42005:2025 codifies best practices for conducting and documenting these assessments.
Data scientists and ML engineers can now create, configure, start, stop, and open Amazon SageMaker Spaces on SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from SageMaker Studio. Launch JupyterLab and Code Editor environments in a few clicks, without using command-line tools.
ai is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a 753B-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks. Learn how to invoke it with the OpenAI-compatible APIs, cut cost and latency with prompt caching, and run an authorized security test with the open-source Strix agent.
Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Learn how to use them with Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, for compliance-aligned, AI-assisted development on regulated and ITAR workloads.
Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with LangChain, and see how agentic retrieval handles the multi-part questions that single-shot retrieval answers poorly. Run the same query through both paths, read the trace events, and compare what each retrieval path costs.
Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.
Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. In this post, we fine-tune an LLM-powered search agent with multi-turn reinforcement learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI and share the gains we measured in retrieval quality and reliability.
With Live Data in Apps in Amazon Quick, AI-built apps query your governed Quick Sight datasets in real time instead of static, build-time snapshots. Each query runs as the person viewing the app, so row-level and column-level security apply per reader. Learn how to build, publish, and share a live-data app using natural language.
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance. The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker’s emotional state by using their biometric data, require employers to send written notices to…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now available in India through Amazon Bedrock geographic cross-Region inference. Requests route only between the Mumbai (ap-south-1) and Hyderabad (ap-south-2) Regions, so customer data stays within India, and Bedrock applies zero data retention by default. Billing, quotas and logs remain tied to the source Region.
Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. This post shares a contract intelligence platform on AWS that uses AI agents to extract and verify contract fields, then answers aggregate and single-contract questions through Amazon Quick analytics.
President Trump plans to host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening, Axios reports. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two and signals a thaw after a year of tension between Anthropic and the administration.
Deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. Cross-lingual cloning preserves the speaker's identity across languages.
The Verge tested the new AI camera features of Apple Intelligence for Home, Gemini for Home and Amazon's Ring in everyday use. The comparison used Google's Nest Doorbell, the HomeKit-compatible Aqara G400 and the Ring Pro 4K. The focus is on AI-generated text descriptions that sum up a scene in a single sentence instead of sending generic motion alerts.
Australia's government says it could change national laws if the current legal framework cannot respond to the hack of Medicare's internal systems by an OpenAI agent. An expert argues that criminal law should clarify how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime.
The AWS WhisperX Deep Learning Container packages Whisper, wav2vec2 forced alignment, and speaker diarization into a GPU-ready image. Learn how to deploy it to Amazon SageMaker AI real-time and asynchronous endpoints for word-level, speaker-labeled transcription, plus the production details that matter: the GPU AMI pin, scaling, and cost controls.
Build a multi-account architecture that keeps each team's data in its own AWS account while giving AI agents a unified way to query across them. A central platform account runs the agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and MCP, while line-of-business accounts expose their data as MCP servers with secure cross-account access and fine-grained authorization.
Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City On Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to “Eat the rich, save the planet”. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google and Amazon; other protesters, including clergy, were arrested while disrupting a closed-door AI health su…
HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL delivers governed knowledge inside the tools teams already use, with no AWS credentials on the client and security anchored in Microsoft Entra ID.
Learn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. A single Strands Agents SDK agent orchestrates Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe at runtime, deciding which service to call so you can ask natural language questions about your videos and get answers in seconds.
Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. This post walks through deploying a model, running automated concurrency sweeps with the CreateAIBenchmarkJob API, and using the results to make data-driven capacity decisions about fleet size.
EXL built an AI-powered Medical intelligent document processing (IDP) solution on AWS, combining IDP with domain-specific large language models on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock to extract, summarize, and query medical records at enterprise scale and cut claims review time from over 100 minutes per case.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS Sunday Morning there is a "0% chance" that AI ends the world, and called it "unnecessary" and "irresponsible" to scare people about its dangers. He dismissed slowdown calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman as "not grounded in science" and argued that no new rules, laws or guidelines are needed.
The NYT filed a legal brief revealing potentially damaging statements from Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the copyright infringement case it brought against the two companies. The publication is now seeking a summary judgment from the court, almost three years since it started the case.
Amazon has weighed into the debate over the pace of AI development, saying models should only ship after rigorous testing. The statement follows calls from leading labs to slow down after a run of safety lapses. Amazon lands firmly on the cautious side of the argument, without naming concrete criteria for when a model counts as ready and safe.
Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters identify strong candidates more efficiently while providing applicants with a flexible interview experience.
Learn how MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, gave about 400 employees secure, self-service access to AI agents in its first month of production - using Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat to meet the security, data residency, and compliance requirements of the German financial sector.
This Guardian opinion piece argues that letting AI companies coordinate to "pace the frontier" would recycle an old corporate playbook for escaping antitrust law. It pushes back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's argument that excessive competition is driving AI toward dangerous outcomes.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday, arguing that market forces will help companies innovate safely. The comments land in a heated debate after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI capability gains. A day earlier, Huang told President Trump onstage that the industry would not let an AI slowdown happen.
Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization, then deploy it for asynchronous inference to build a cost-efficient product tagging system.
Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and capacity-watching scripts.
AWS lays out an eight-step decision framework for choosing how far to customize generative AI. The first steps use foundation models as they are or improve results with prompt engineering, followed by RAG, prompt caching and distillation, all without touching model weights.
Elon Musk's AI company xAI and X Corp. said they have resolved their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to Bloomberg. The suit had accused the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT over other chatbot makers.
The UK Parliament's cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of MPs and Lords, is calling for a new regulatory framework for AI. It wants an independent oversight body and legislation to protect the public, citing a series of safety incidents and threats such as public face scanning and deepfakes. The committee warns that the world is unprepared for the potentially dire consequences of the technology.
Amazon is reportedly using AI to adjust actors' mouth movements so they match dubbed dialogue. The goal is to make foreign-language versions look closer to the original footage without reshooting scenes. So far the report comes only from Futurism, and details on Amazon's technology, which series use it and how convincing the result looks are still missing.
In a Guardian opinion piece, Julianne Schultz argues that Australia's lack of a federal human rights act leaves people exposed as government relies more on AI and automated decision-making. Without transparency requirements or a right of review, algorithms could effectively ration public support. Victoria, Queensland and the ACT already have such laws, and a parliamentary committee has recommended one nationally.
Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory cost, and rubric-graded deliverable quality across OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock.
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 cache stays warm. In benchmarks on Llama 3.1 70B, it reduced P50 time-to-first-token by up to 77% and raised KV cache hit rates from about 25% to over 80%.
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 prompt rather than in code, one detector adapts to new entity types without retraining, and it outperforms an off-the-shelf tool across five public corpora and nine LLM-based detectors.
AvioBook, a Thales Group Company, prototyped Connected Analytics on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn AvioBook Connect's operational data into plain-language, evidence-based answers for airline managers and dispatchers, helping them find and act on the causes of flight turnaround delays.
A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, agents that run for up to 14 days on dedicated compute, expanded AWS GovCloud availability, and Strands Robots for physical deployment.
Learn how Heurist built Heurist Finance, a conversational AI investment workbench, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This customer story shows how AgentCore payments, Identity, Memory, Code Interpreter, and Observability let a small team buy premium market data per query, isolate analysis in a sandbox, and keep every action auditable.
TorchServe is no longer maintained, leaving teams to own the entire GPU inference stack. The AWS Ray Serve Deep Learning Container is a supported, pre-tested container with the framework, GPU drivers, and serving layer already assembled. This post walks through deploying a vision-language model on Amazon EKS using the Ray Serve DLC on a single GPU node.
Governing models across accounts is the next step after automatic model registration. This post extends managed MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync to two cross-account governance topologies: a hub-and-spoke pattern that centralizes governance with AWS RAM, and a hybrid pattern that keeps development accounts isolated.
Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnership Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning? The first teaser trailer of Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been released.
Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Compare throughput, latency, and cost-per-token, and see how G7's NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver measurable price-performance gains for real-time LLM inference.
Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, post-training, and closed-loop evaluation with NVIDIA Cosmos 3) on a persistent, resilient Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster on Amazon EKS, with GPU goodput as the metric that matters.
Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-end setup and shows automation scenarios using Amazon Quick chat agents, Amazon Quick Flows, and Amazon Quick Automate.
Deploy a customer-operated LiteLLM gateway on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, connect it to an OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock, and configure Codex to route requests through the gateway's Responses API with scoped identities, budgets, rate limits, and telemetry. We also compare direct IAM Identity Center access and a managed Portkey deployment.
Learn how to build a generative AI-based support operations platform on AWS that converts training videos into structured SOPs, applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation to guide ticket resolution, and uses machine learning to predict SLA risk and prioritize work.
Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-agent architecture on Amazon Bedrock that produces IDEA-aligned transition plans for school districts across the US.
The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing in favor of the AI lab. The suit, filed in December 2023, alleges that OpenAI unlawfully trained its systems on Times articles and seeks billions in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft.
Drivers from the UK, the Netherlands and other countries have filed a class action against Uber. They allege that an AI-driven system sets pay and allocates jobs in breach of data protection law and pushes their earnings down. The claimants describe living in constant fear of what they call a soulless algorithm.
"No bystanders anywhere had any opportunity to, much less in fact did, consent to having their faces, bodies, voices, and personal information captured, reviewed, labeled, and embedded into Meta's AI systems. " The post Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of “Millions” of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit appeared first on Futurism.
Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers Claude Fable 5.1's improvements, the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards for keeping your data in a cloud environment you control, and how to start building with the model on Amazon Bedrock.
When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on AWS through an AI League event. This post explains why Atos chose the format, what engineers built and learned, and what other enterprises should consider.
In this post, you will learn how to deploy and host your MCP server in AgentCore Runtime and integrate it with Amazon Quick, along with the prerequisites. With this pattern, you promote reusability and avoid duplication of AI tools, so clients can reuse commonly used tools and agents exposed through an MCP server instead of authoring them from scratch again.
escalated its legal battle against OpenAI, claiming in a court filing that OpenAI is actively destroying crucial evidence and that former iPhone engineer Chang Liu “not only downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic but also used it in his work” at the AI company.
This post builds an enterprise agentic retrieval solution on the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. An agent reasons, routes across multiple knowledge bases, and returns cited answers, with seven layers of observability and both on-demand and continuous evaluation, all deployed with a single AWS CloudFormation chain.
Anthropic argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions of dollars in lost business and reputational harm A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration against AI giant Anthropic were illegal, finding that the government had punished the artificial intelligence company for publicly criticising the Pentagon. “The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to…
Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageMaker AI with two capabilities that land billing, usage, and per-GPU metrics directly in your own Amazon CloudWatch account.
In this post, you will learn how GoDaddy migrated from their legacy business intelligence (BI) tool to Amazon Quick. This was a two-year transformation that delivered results across every dimension of the business: 15,000 hours saved annually, 50% reduction in dashboard count, rendering times cut to under 5 seconds, and AI-powered self-service analytics now accessible to every employee.
The SageMaker Python SDK v3 redesigns script mode with unified ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder classes. This post walks through two end-to-end examples, a scikit-learn Random Forest and a multi-GPU Stable Diffusion 3.5 LoRA fine-tune, showing how SourceCode syncs your local code into any container at runtime so you can iterate without rebuilding Docker images.
Australia's parliament has passed revamped media bargaining laws, opening the door to levies on global tech platforms that fail to strike licensing deals with local news outlets. Nine Entertainment CEO Matt Stanton says he sees a world of growth in publishing ahead and points to a good pipeline of AI deals. At the same time, the network is cutting $160m in costs, including across its newsrooms.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally run MCP server lets your agent move from alert to trace to logs to root cause in one conversation, and how you can verify every step inline without leaving your IDE.
Data centers now drive more new US investment than any other project, and Axios calls them the political subplot of the 2026 election year. The five largest hyperscalers, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle, are set to spend more than 750 billion dollars in capex this year, up 67 percent from last year, with roughly three quarters earmarked for AI infrastructure.
Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-first AI avatar. The accelerator uses Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation and deploys in hours with AWS CloudFormation.
Learn how to build a voice ordering system for restaurants that answers a phone call and takes an order end to end, with no app, no website, and no sign-in. It uses Amazon Connect for telephony, Amazon Connect Agentic Voice for real-time speech, an Amazon Connect AI agent for reasoning, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to reach backend tools through MCP.
The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compressing new-source onboarding from weeks to hours while keeping data governance and compliance controls inline.
Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) issues across a global fleet, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes while maintaining accuracy.
Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has been pending before U. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce for seven weeks. The state wants ChatGPT officially classified as a public nuisance.
Healthcare, retail, and life sciences teams store large volumes of operational data in Snowflake, but turning it into predictions is hard. In Part 1 of this series, you set up your AWS account and Snowflake environment for a no-code ML workflow with Amazon SageMaker Canvas, laying the foundation for building a fraud detection model without writing code.
federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.
Leaders at AWS told their engineers this year to conserve CPU cycles at all costs, after wait times for CPU server capacity exploded under AI workloads. CPUs had largely been left out of the AI story, since their limited parallelisation made them a poor fit for model inference while GPUs and memory dominated. The rise of agentic systems that run autonomously and call sub-agents is changing that.
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 the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and IAM credentials to route session traces, span metrics, and token usage to the same AgentCore Observability dashboard.
Learn how to automate legacy web applications that need human-like interaction using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents. This walkthrough covers a reference architecture for an AI-powered digital worker that drives legacy interfaces through secure, isolated browser sessions while preserving human oversight and full audit trails.
Twitch users can now opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's generative AI models. According to a Twitch support page, the opt-out covers streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and the images and text on your own channel. AI-supported features such as captions and safety tools keep working even after you opt out.
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 SageMaker AI, with a RAG pipeline on pgvector and over 50 agents built with Strands Agents SDK on Amazon ECS.
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 cache on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that extends the cache into a shared, distributed NVMe pool with Curvine, so replicas reuse cache at near-local-disk speeds on cost-efficient instances.
Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced at the chip, keeping your code and vulnerability data secure.
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 millions of users in four months, reaching 35% adoption by automating the tedious image SEO work photographers avoid, without touching the creative craft they take pride in.
Claude apps gateway is a self-hosted governance layer that sits between Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. AWS walks through a production reference deployment with the full end-to-end architecture. The post also covers common enterprise deployment patterns, cost considerations and ready-to-use implementation resources.
The Amazon SageMaker AI Spaces add-on for Amazon EKS runs managed JupyterLab and Code Editor environments on the cluster your ML team already operates. This post shows how to install and configure the add-on, connect from the browser and from VS Code over SSH-over-SSM, and move your team to OpenID Connect sign-in with Amazon Cognito.
Amazon is investing in a new gas-fired power plant in Pecos County, Texas, built to supply its own data center with up to 7.65 gigawatts of electricity. The facility's 35 natural-gas turbines would initially run disconnected from the Texas grid, tying output directly to the data center's demand. The New York Times reports it could rank among the largest single sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.
TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production errors in real time, reducing root-cause analysis from 15 to 30 minutes of manual work to under 60 seconds.
Ahead of the US midterms, rules for AI deepfakes in political campaigning differ sharply from state to state. Twenty-nine states have deepfake election laws in effect, while California's and Hawaii's have been permanently enjoined, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Minnesota and Texas ban political deepfakes only in the days before an election, while Maryland's ban runs year round.
Writing in the Guardian, Alan Finkel proposes three laws for AI modelled on Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics. One trigger is Elon Musk's prediction that AI-powered robots will shape the physical world and may eventually stop taking orders from people. Musk's own counter-vision is a shared objective that aligns AI with a love of truth and human flourishing, enforced by governments if necessary.
Learn how to configure rate limits on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway to enforce per-user and per-target traffic controls. Define request, token, and connection limits scoped by JWT claims or IAM identity to protect downstream models, tools, and agents from traffic spikes.
Learn about new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: temporal policies powered by Dogwood, a new open source policy language for AI agents, and rate limiting on the gateway. These features give you deterministic control over sequences of agent actions and cost ceilings that hold regardless of agent behavior.
A regulated customer needed all Claude Code inference processed in a single AWS Region (London), not just in-geography. This post shows two ways to pin Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock to one Region: an application inference profile or the Mantle endpoint, paired with an IAM Region condition, plus how to verify compliance in AWS CloudTrail.
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations meritless. In its motion, OpenAI argues that Apple mischaracterises ordinary employee conduct as theft and generic product development information as trade secrets. It also claims Apple took no reasonable steps to keep that information secret in the first place.
AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore run in the cloud, but users' tools and files live on their laptops. Learn how to build a secure MCP bridge that lets a cloud-hosted agent call local MCP servers by tunneling signed messages over the existing WebSocket connection through a browser extension and Chrome native messaging, with no open ports or VPN required.