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NVIDIA announced updates to DLSS 4, RTX Kit, ACE and developer tools at Gamescom 2025 — expanding neural rendering, on‑device ASR, DirectX Cooperative Vectors, GeForce NOW integrations and Unreal Engine support.
Anthropic updated Claude’s usage policy to explicitly ban help developing CBRN and high‑yield explosives, tighten cybersecurity prohibitions, refine political rules, and clarify high‑risk requirements.
In a traditional SDLC, a lot of time is spent in the different phases researching approaches that can deliver on requirements: iterating over design changes, writing, testing and reviewing code, and configuring infrastructure. In this post, you learned about the experience and saw productivity gains
In this post, we demonstrate the implementation of a practical RAG chat-based assistant using a comprehensive stack of modern technologies. The solution uses NVIDIA NIMs for both LLM inference and text embedding services, with the NIM Operator handling their deployment and management. The architectu
OpenAI's GPT-5 delivered incremental accuracy gains but notable improvements in cost, latency, coding performance, and fewer hallucinations. The launch met heavy hype and mixed reactions.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told The Verge he believes AI is in a bubble, compared it to the dot‑com era, warned about exuberant startup valuations, and said OpenAI expects massive data‑center spending.
In this post, we explore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, a comprehensive identity and access management service purpose-built for AI agents that enables secure access to AWS resources and third-party tools. The service provides robust identity management features including agent identity director
In this post, we discuss Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a fully managed service that revolutionizes how enterprises connect AI agents with tools and services by providing a centralized tool server with unified interface for agent-tool communication. The service offers key capabilities including S
Sam Altman addressed GPT‑5’s rocky rollout, GPU shortages, plans to spend trillions on data centers, funding a brain‑computer interface startup, social ambitions and a potential interest in Google Chrome.
University Startups, headquartered in Bethesda, MD, was founded in 2020 to empower high school students to expand their education beyond a traditional curriculum. University Startups is focused on special education and related services in school districts throughout the US. In this post, we explain
A new letter to the Federal Trade Commission, and US attorneys general for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, calls for an urgent investigation into Elon Musk's Grok - especially its new "Imagine" tool for AI-generated image and video. The tool, released by xAI earlier this month, encourage
An internal Meta document allowed AI chatbots to flirt with children and generate other controversial content; Meta confirmed the document, then revised and removed inconsistent example notes.
We’re excited to share the Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, for seamless integration between Amazon Q and your enterprise data. In this post, you will learn how to use the Amazon Bedrock Data Automation MCP server to securely integrate with AWS Services, use Bedroc
In this post, we explore an innovative solution that uses Amazon Bedrock Agents, powered by Amazon Nova Lite, to create a conversational interface for Athena queries. We use AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) as an example, but this solution can be adapted for other databases you query using Athen
This post describes an approach of combining three powerful technologies to illustrate an architecture that you can adapt and build upon for your specific financial analysis needs: LangGraph for workflow orchestration, Strands Agents for structured reasoning, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for too
In this post, Amazon shares how they developed a multi-node inference solution for Rufus, their generative AI shopping assistant, using Amazon Trainium chips and vLLM to serve large language models at scale. The solution combines a leader/follower orchestration model, hybrid parallelism strategies,
We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The researchers set out to discover whether continuous exposure
Apple is presenting new work at Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam (Aug 17–21). Find the Apple booth location, Apple-sponsored roles, and key participation details for researchers and developers.
Recap of Apple's two-day Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML), with focus areas, selected presentations, and links to recordings and publications.
This post explores how Indegene’s Social Intelligence Solution uses advanced AI to help life sciences companies extract valuable insights from digital healthcare conversations. Built on AWS technology, the solution addresses the growing preference of HCPs for digital channels while overcoming the ch
TextQuests benchmarks large language models on 25 Infocom interactive fiction games to test long-context reasoning, learning through exploration, and efficiency over runs up to 500 steps.
In this post, Lexbe, a legal document review software company, demonstrates how they integrated Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services to transform their document review process, enabling legal professionals to instantly query and extract insights from vast volumes of case documents using generative
In this post, we review the technical specifications of P6e-GB200 UltraServers, discuss their performance benefits, and highlight key use cases. We then walk though how to purchase UltraServer capacity through flexible training plans and get started using UltraServers with SageMaker HyperPod.
We’re exploring Meta’s Federation Platform, a scalable set of tools for managing compliance-related tasks, along with Privacy Waves, our method for batching these tasks and ensuring accountability. Together, the Federation Platform and Privacy Waves create a structured, effective, and sustainable ap
Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it's hard to know where to st
VeriTrail, new from Microsoft Research, can detect AI-generated content that is not supported by the source text, trace the provenance of content from final output back to the source, and locate where errors were likely introduced. The post VeriTrail: Detecting hallucination and tracing provenance i
'Introducing study mode in ChatGPT, a new learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step, guiding students with questions, scaffolding, and feedback for deeper learning.'
'Discover how Outtake uses GPT-4.1 and OpenAI o3 to power AI agents that detect and resolve digital threats 100x faster than before.'
Xinxing Xu is helping shape the work of Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore by turning advanced AI research into real-world solutions. Learn how he collaborates across sectors and disciplines to drive responsible innovation throughout Southeast Asia. The post Xinxing Xu bridges AI research and real-
Meta has developed Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) and Policy Zones to enforce purpose limitations on data, especially in large-scale batch processing systems. Policy Zones integrates with Meta’s exabyte-scale data warehouse and processing systems, using runtime enforcement and SQL parsing to pro
'As part of our Executive Function series, Model ML CEO Chaz Englander discusses how AI-native infrastructure and autonomous agents are transforming financial services workflows.'
Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT’s impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration to study AI’s broader effects on the labor market and productivity.
OpenAI and Penda Health debut an AI clinical copilot that cuts diagnostic errors by 16% in real-world use—offering a new path for safe, effective AI in healthcare.
Have you ever worked is legacy code? Are you curious what it takes to modernize systems at a massive scale? Pascal Hartig is joined on the latest Meta Tech Podcast by Elaine and Buping, two software engineers working on a bold project to rewrite the decades-old C code in one of Meta’s core messaging
' Meta is partnering with V.tal to extend the Malbec subsea cable to Porto Alegre, Brazil by 2027. With this new extension, Malbec will become the first subsea cable to land in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, bringing more connectivity to millions of people in Southern Brazil and neighboring countr'
In his annual letter, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dubbed AI one of the company’s four “big bets” for 2025. The executive pointed to the company’s investments in AI tools for creators, including ones for video ideas, thumbnails, and language translation. The latter feature will roll out to all creators in