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Revolutionize Ordering with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on WhatsApp

Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Customers can text, send voice notes, or make calls seamlessly, recognized across channels with a single backend memory. The solution leverages Meta WhatsApp Business Platform and AWS CDK for easy deployment and scalability.

Streamlining Knowledge Base Customization with Amazon Textract

Amazon Bedrock, powered by Amazon Textract, streamlines utility bill analysis, enabling organizations to extract and analyze data efficiently. By combining structured and unstructured content extraction with generative AI capabilities, customer service teams can provide faster, more accurate responses to customer queries.

Mastering Amazon Quick Automate for Ultimate Efficiency

Agentic automations in Amazon Quick Automate adapt and collaborate to streamline business processes at scale, but require deliberate design choices for reliability and trust. Understanding the process and setting clear goals are key to successful automation, addressing concrete business problems with unstructured inputs and contextual judgment.

Boosted Regression with Extra Trees in C#

Implement AdaBoost. R2 regression with Extra Trees learners for better results than standard decision trees in machine learning regression problems. Extra Trees are weaker, faster, and have built-in regularization, enhancing AdaBoost regression outcomes.

Securely Embed Quick Sight Visuals with Cognito

Embedding Amazon Quick Sight visuals into React apps with per-user authentication adds complexity but offers granular control and seamless integration. The solution includes a lightweight architecture using AWS services like Amazon Cognito, Lambda, and Quick Sight for secure and efficient embedding.

Anticipating Self-Driving Car Errors

MIT and Motional researchers developed CW-Net, a method that provides clear explanations of self-driving cars' decisions, improving driver awareness and safety. CW-Net translates deep learning model reasoning into understandable concepts, enhancing transparency and trust in autonomous vehicles.

Scaling AWS: Detecting Dashboard Content Failures with Amazon Bedrock

Automated content validation solution detects and fixes dashboard errors before users see them, reducing detection time from 72 to 1 hour. Traditional infrastructure monitoring may miss silent visual failures and numeric inconsistencies in BI data, highlighting the importance of content-layer validation.

Global AI Access: OpenAI Models on Amazon Bedrock

Australian teams can access OpenAI models via Amazon Bedrock, offering GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna for diverse workloads. These models accept text and image inputs, with options for prompt caching and authentication setup for cost optimization.

Empowering Students with Disabilities: Trinity AI Transition Planning

University Startups developed Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, to personalize transition planning. Partnering with g/d/n/a, they scaled Trinity efficiently, reaching educators and students in multiple states and expanding internationally. Trinity tackles challenges in federally regulated transition planning, offering personalized guidance and support for stu...

Empowering Engineers: Atos' Agentic AI Upskilling Journey

Atos partnered with AWS to upskill engineers in agentic AI through hands-on learning in the AI League format. Engineers built multi-agent systems and competed on a live leaderboard, using real AWS services for practical application and measurable outcomes.

Community Innovation with Ila Kumar

Ila Kumar prioritizes community-based design in creating impactful technology, working with young people impacted by trauma to reimagine healing tools. She believes in designing technology that supports holistic well-being and is collaborating on projects to empower youth in their mental health journey.