AWS is Amazon's cloud computing platform, offering compute, storage, databases and AI services. Recent coverage focuses on its AI buildout: a reference architecture for agentic platforms on Bedrock AgentCore, the Agent Registry for runtime tool discovery, X.509 PKI guidance for agent identity, the HIPAA-eligible Amazon Quick environment for healthcare, and SOCI-indexed images to speed SageMaker AI jobs. Stories also covered its cloud relationship with Anthropic and shared engineering deployments.
AWS details WhisperX speaker-labeled transcription on SageMaker AIAWS published a technical article on using WhisperX for speaker-labeled transcription on SageMaker AI, offering developers a scalable deployment approach.
Agentic conversational video intelligence on AWSAWS published an article on building agentic conversational video intelligence on its platform, detailing how to develop interactive video AI solutions using AWS services.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Hosts Five AI Safety SessionsTechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host five AI safety sessions across its AI Stage and Real World AI Stage, featuring speakers from Anthropic, NVIDIA, AWS and Waabi. The sessions focus on how enterprises can safely deploy AI agents into production, with passes discounted up to $200 before Sept 25.
xAI's Grok 4.6 now available in Amazon BedrockxAI's Grok 4.6 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing customers to access it through the platform.
BMW detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accountsAWS describes how BMW Group detects cost anomalies across its 14,000 cloud accounts.
AWS Principal Applied Scientist Hosts Reddit AMAAWS Principal Applied Scientist James Gung is holding an AMA on r/MachineLearning about his work on AI services including Bedrock, Lex, and Q Business, plus research in task-oriented dialogue and agent evaluation. The AMA is scheduled for Sept. 21 at 11 a.m. ET for one hour.
AWS improves HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skillsAWS published guidance on improving AI reasoning in the health and life sciences (HCLS) domain using open-source agent skills, showing practical methods and frameworks to enhance AI tools for vertical applications.
Fault-tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS with NVRxAn AWS blog explains how to achieve fault-tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx, sharing engineering practices and deployment examples to improve training reliability for large-scale jobs.
Amazon Bedrock prompt caching for cost and latencyAWS describes Amazon Bedrock prompt caching to optimize cost and latency, helping developers reduce invocation costs and improve performance when using foundation models.
HighByte achieves AWS AI CompetencyIndustrial software vendor HighByte obtained the AWS Artificial Intelligence Competency, indicating its products and implementations meet AWS AI capability requirements and may strengthen cloud‑based industrial AI deployments.
Columbia partners with AWS on AI for disease researchColumbia University and AWS are partnering to apply AI to disease research, according to the report; the article does not provide further details on scope or terms.
AWS: August 2026 AI builder highlightsAmazon AWS published an August roundup of updates for AI builders, outlining product and tooling rollouts to help build and deploy AI workloads; the changes affect developers and companies using the AWS ecosystem.
Qualcomm and AWS collaborate on AI chips and design toolsQualcomm is building custom AI inference chips for multiple AWS product generations; AWS will use Qualcomm for inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to help design those chips.
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