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MIT Students Awarded Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarships

MIT master’s students Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 receive prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate studies at Stanford University. Jiang focuses on embodied AI and robotics, while Li excels in mathematics, receiving multiple prestigious scholarships and awards.

Limit AI browsing with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports Chrome enterprise policies and custom root CA certificates, providing granular control over AI agent browser behavior and connectivity. Chrome policies restrict agent scope, disable risky browser features, and separate policy management from agent development, enhancing security for organizations using AI agents with unrestricted web access.

Supercharge LLM with Unity Catalog and SageMaker AI

Fine-tune large language models with Amazon SageMaker AI and Databricks Unity Catalog, ensuring strict data governance and compliance. Securely integrate Unity Catalog with SageMaker AI using EMR Serverless for preprocessing, tracking data lineage without compromising security.

Mastering Linear Ridge Regression in Python

Implementing linear ridge regression from scratch in Python with closed form training for L2 regularization can prevent model overfitting. Using Cholesky or SVD inverse with alpha L2 constant conditions the matrix for successful training.

Unlocking AI Fluency for All

MIT President Sally Kornbluth predicts AI's widespread influence. MIT launches Universal AI program to bridge AI knowledge gap, offering industry-specific courses.

Amazon Bedrock: Revolutionizing Bug Routing for Miro

Miro partners with AWS to develop BugManager, an AI-powered solution for automated bug triaging, reducing reassignments and time-to-resolution. BugManager uses optimized prompts and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for higher accuracy in bug classification.