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Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale. This post shows how to use sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD) to transfer a frontier teacher's agenti…
Prepare web content for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Crawl4AI
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: This post shows how to use Crawl4AI, an open source web crawler, as a content preparation layer for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, handling JavaScript rendering, selective extraction, and custom metadata enrichment before web content reaches an Amazon S3 data sour…
OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs
TechCrunch – AI reports: OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.
Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to ‘unsustainably high’ costs
TechCrunch – AI reports: Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas
The Verge – AI reports: In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, where the company promises to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power during extreme weather or emergencies, enough to power air conditio…
Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
The Verge – AI reports: Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will s…
The agentic web is here
MIT Technology Review – AI reports: In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed…
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
TechCrunch – AI reports: An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction, and scalable growth.
Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed device policy, a named A…
Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that keeps a Vite website running in its session,…
Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform defaults, and operate a review cadence. Written for FinOps and platform engineeri…