Amazon Web Services

2026-10-28

CODING · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Build a citation-backed financial research assistant using Cohere and Anthropic on AWS

A CloudFormation-based demo shows how to build a financial research assistant on AWS that combines Cohere Embed, Rerank, and Parse with Amazon SageMaker AI, OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic Claude for answers). The guide explains using Embed Pro/Fast and Rerank Pro/Fast, Context Focus, and Parse to index page-level content (including tables and scanned pages) and produce citation-backed answers while trading off retrieval quality, latency, and cost.

5.0

2026-10-02

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

AWS CEO warns against blocking AI data centers and unveils 'Data Center Commitment'

AWS CEO Matt Garman published a >3,000-word blog urging communities and policymakers not to block AI data centers, arguing moratoriums (he said 100+ are being considered) would harm US economic and national-security competitiveness. The post sets out an Amazon 'Data Center Commitment' — including pledges on jobs, local energy impacts and more than $1 billion in community support — and Amazon says it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements with government agencies, according to company comments.

7.0

2026-09-30

CODING · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

AWS shows multi-agent music pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances

AWS published a walkthrough demonstrating a three-agent music production pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances. The example colocates agents on a single EC2-backed instance with persistent volumes and an NVIDIA L4 GPU (running ACE-Step for on-instance music generation), uses shared runtimeSessionId for agent collaboration, and packages agents as ECR containers or S3 artifacts to enable multi-day, stateful workflows.

6.0

2026-09-28

MODELS · 2 SOURCES · The Decoder · TechCrunch AI

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 claiming faster output and up to 30% lower per-task costs

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family; the company says the model generates output more than 30% faster and reduces per-task costs by up to 30% through more efficient token usage while nearly matching Opus 5.5 on several coding and knowledge-work benchmarks. Sonnet 5.5 is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure as model ID "claude-sonnet-5-5," and Anthropic says it adds new safeguards against cybersecurity risks and distillation attacks — independent verification of the performance and cost claims is pending.

8.0

2026-09-25

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

Datacor embeds Amazon QuickSight generative BI into TrackAbout for self‑service rental analytics

Datacor integrated Amazon QuickSight (including its generative BI assistant, Amazon Q) into its TrackAbout asset-tracking product to provide interactive dashboards, natural-language querying, and a self-service analytics experience for rental billing. The implementation includes a cross-cloud ingestion pipeline, tenant isolation and validation controls, and is aimed at helping TrackAbout customers (who manage roughly 27.5 million assets and 725,000 bills/month) analyze rental revenue and run ad-hoc "what if" scenarios without IT support.

6.0

2026-09-23

MODELS · 4 SOURCES · TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI · The Decoder · AWS Machine Learning

Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with improved performance and lower pricing

Anthropic announced Opus 5.5, a faster and cheaper follow-up to Opus 5 that the company says outperforms the larger Fable model on many coding and knowledge-work benchmarks. Output token pricing has been reduced (now $20 per mTok vs $25 for Opus 5), the model communicates with less jargon and front-loads key information, and Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are slated to follow soon; the release is subject to the same safety safeguards as Fable and underwent external evaluation.

8.0

2026-09-23

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Greece’s PM Mitsotakis candidly admits uncertainty on AI policy during San Francisco visit

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while promoting investment in Greece in San Francisco, said he does not yet have answers to many AI policy questions. He highlighted Greece’s investments in digital infrastructure — including an HPE-supported supercomputer in Lavrio and an OpenAI education pilot — discussed a proposed social‑media ban for under‑15s, voiced concern about AI’s effects on learning and jobs, and noted welcomed data‑center projects by Microsoft and AWS.

6.0

2026-09-10

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

TwelveLabs' Marengo Embed 3.0 added to Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for video, image and audio search

TwelveLabs' Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling fully managed natural-language semantic search over video, image and audio content. AWS Machine Learning published a walkthrough showing how to build a Bedrock knowledge base powered by Marengo 3.0 and run semantic queries against media.

6.0