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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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

AI Impact on Pupil Thinking Skills

Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report decline in core abilities like writing and problem-solving. AI use in pupils linked to loss of critical thinking skills, teachers say.