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Streamline Onboarding with AI-Powered Agents

Amazon Quick is a managed service that helps HR departments create onboarding agents to streamline new-hire processes and improve productivity. Components like knowledge bases, actions, and spaces enable organizations to automate tasks and provide consistent answers, saving time and enhancing the onboarding experience.

Unlocking Amazon Bedrock Gateway with MCP Servers

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway simplifies AI agent connections to multiple MCP servers, streamlining authentication and policy enforcement. Teams can now use a single Gateway URL for accessing various MCP tools from AWS, GitHub, Salesforce, and Databricks, enhancing efficiency and security.

Customizing AI in Amazon SageMaker: Accelerate Agentic Tool Calling

AI agents utilize agentic tool calling for production tasks, but often fail due to hallucinations and bad parameters. Amazon SageMaker AI offers Serverless model customization with RLVR to improve tool calling accuracy by 57%, handling infrastructure and complexity. SageMaker AI supports model families like Amazon Nova and techniques such as RLVR, enabling models to generate candidate responses...

Smart Ship: AI-Powered Maritime Anomaly Analysis

Windward, a top Maritime AI company, uses AIS data and generative AI to provide a comprehensive view of global maritime activity for defense, law enforcement, and commercial leaders. Their innovative technology automates alert investigations, allowing analysts to focus on decision-making rather than data collection, revolutionizing the maritime industry.

AI Institute in UK Faces Major Overhaul

The Alan Turing Institute urged to enhance strategy and value for money by main funder after legal duties reminder by watchdog. Significant changes required following whistleblower complaint, as reported by The Guardian.

Fueling the Future: The Nuclear Renaissance

Dean Price, an MIT nuclear engineer, aims to advance nuclear technology for carbon-free energy generation in the US by designing new reactors. His research focuses on multiphysics modeling to understand how neutrons and thermal processes interact in nuclear reactors.

Shell Commands: Persisting Session State

AI agents have advanced beyond chat, now able to write code and execute shell commands. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime offers persistent filesystem state and direct shell command execution, revolutionizing agent workflows.

Domain Control: Managing AI Access

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables AI agents to interact with the web securely through managed tools like Browser and Code Interpreter. AWS Network Firewall provides domain-based filtering to control access, addressing security concerns and compliance requirements for regulated industries deploying AI agents.

Accelerating Gemma 4: NVIDIA's Local Agentic AI Journey

Google's Gemma 4 family introduces compact models optimized for NVIDIA GPUs, supporting a wide range of tasks. These models enable efficient local execution for on-device AI, from edge devices to high-performance GPUs, revolutionizing everyday devices.