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Protect Your AI: Amazon Bedrock Guardrails API

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails introduces the InvokeGuardrailChecks API for agentic AI applications. This API allows for customizable safeguards at each stage of the AI loop, providing numeric scores for each safeguard to enhance safety controls and protect sensitive information.

NVIDIA Blackwell Dominates MLPerf Training 6.0

NVIDIA Blackwell platform dominates MLPerf Training 6.0 with fastest training times and largest-scale training across 8,192 GPUs. NVIDIA showcases performance and scale with cutting-edge NVFP4 training methods and Blackwell Ultra capabilities.

MIT's Manufacturing Momentum

MIT's INM celebrates its first year with Manufacturing Week, showcasing AI, startups, and workforce solutions for industrial transformation. INM inspires new manufacturing startups with programs like NSF I-Corps New England, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the industry.

Empower Your Research with Deep Agents and Bedrock AgentCore

LangChain Deep Agents addresses the challenge of depth versus context in AI-powered research workflows by delegating deep work to isolated subagents. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides the infrastructure needed, allowing developers to build competitive research agents with isolated execution environments for multi-step AI workflows.

Rocket Close: Supercharging Operations with AI

Rocket Close, a Detroit-based company within Rocket Companies, developed Supercharger, an AI solution in collaboration with AWS to optimize title operations workflows and improve efficiency in the lending and homebuying process. Supercharger centralizes knowledge, automates research-heavy tasks, and enhances both operational efficiency and client experience, powered by Strands Agents and Amazon...

Diving into C# Program Design with 'dynamic'

C# "dynamic" keyword simplifies adding secondary evaluation metrics to regression models, enhancing flexibility and efficiency. Demo showcases diverse evaluation methods like RMSE, R2, and Baseline Accuracy for improved model assessment.

Zyphra Unveils Groundbreaking Zamba2-VL Model

Zyphra introduces Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models with a unique hybrid state-space design for competitive accuracy at lower latency. The Zamba2 backbone combines Mamba2 state-space layers and shared transformer blocks, outperforming other models in benchmarks like PixMoCount and Document understanding.

MIT affiliates awarded prestigious 2026 Hertz Fellowships

The Hertz Foundation awarded fellowships to MIT students Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and Matthew Wanta, providing 5 years of financial support for groundbreaking research. Recipients gain autonomy and access to a network of over 1,300 fellows, leading to collaborative breakthroughs in science and technology fields.

Jinhua Zhao appointed head of Urban Studies and Planning

Jinhua Zhao appointed head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, known for shaping global mobility systems and bridging research with policy. Zhao's work with leading transportation agencies worldwide and founding of MIT Mobility Initiative highlight his impact on shaping future mobility solutions.