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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...

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.

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.

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.

AI Love Gone Wrong

AI skeptic Rhik Samadder lets AI take the lead on a date in week five of his diary. Is AI the missing ingredient in his search for love?

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.

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.