NEWS IN BRIEF: AI/ML FRESH UPDATES

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Amazon Nova Act: HIPAA Eligibility Achieved

Amazon Nova Act, now HIPAA eligible, automates healthcare workflows with AI agents, reducing manual tasks for HCLS organizations. It integrates with external tools, navigates websites, and completes multi-step workflows, improving efficiency and compliance.

Stacking Regressor: A Regression Model to Avoid

Using a stacking regressor model with multiple base models for predictions can be overwhelming due to the vast number of parameters involved. A demo using the StackingRegressor model on the Diabetes Dataset showed challenges in accurately predicting the target value of diabetes in patients.

Introducing OpenAI API for Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports OpenAI-compatible API for real-time inference endpoints, simplifying model invocation with standard SDKs. Users like Caffeine.AI can seamlessly integrate SageMaker as a drop-in OpenAI-compatible endpoint without custom code changes.

Decoding Chemical Principles with AI

MIT researcher Connor Coley uses AI to identify potential small-molecule drugs from vast compound possibilities, straddling chemical engineering and computer science. Coley's work combines machine learning and cheminformatics to optimize automated chemical reactions for drug discovery.

MLLM: The Ultimate Image-to-Text Judge

New MLLM-as-a-Judge evaluators in Strands Evals SDK enhance image-to-text tasks, predicting 80% enterprise software to be multimodal by 2030. Automated multimodal evaluation improves accuracy and efficiency in software development.

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash: Faster & Cheaper AI for Coding

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at Google I/O May 2026, surpassing the previous premium tier with faster and cheaper performance. Gemini 3.5 Flash excels in coding, task performance, tool-use reliability, and multimodal understanding, offering faster completion at a lower cost for text, image, audio, and video inputs.

Revolutionize Voice Apps with Amazon SageMaker AI

Amazon SageMaker AI introduces bidirectional streaming for real-time speech-to-text inference starting November 2025. Mistral AI's vLLM Realtime API allows for seamless bidirectional streaming between client and server for deploying compact real-time speech models, offering a fully managed, real-time speech-to-text service.

Streamlining Amazon Bedrock with Programmatic Tools

PTC reduces latency and token usage by allowing large language models to programmatically call multiple tools within a sandboxed environment, improving efficiency for multi-tool workflows. This innovative approach is particularly effective for data processing, numerical calculations, process orchestration, and privacy-sensitive tasks, offering a model-agnostic solution for improved performance ...

Enhancing Conversational Memory with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory

Kiro CLI introduces a custom Model Context Protocol server to enhance conversational memory with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory, enabling AI agents to retain context for more intelligent interactions. The solution includes tools for searching, monitoring memory usage, and managing conversation history, improving productivity and personalization.

Supercharge ML pipelines with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports Apache Iceberg format, streaming ingestion, and fine-grained access control through AWS Lake Formation, addressing operational challenges for ML models. New capabilities in SageMaker Python SDK v3. 8. 0 include Lake Formation integration, Iceberg table properties control, and modular Feature Store support, simplifying access control and reducing stora...

Empower Your Evaluation Process with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations offers custom code-based evaluators for assessing agentic applications in specialized domains like financial services. These evaluators provide control over scoring logic, allowing for tailored assessments of agent quality and seamless integration into development workflows.