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Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Amazon Quick Sight layer maps now support Point and LineString geometry from the same GeoJSON workflow, so you can plot store locations and the routes between them. This post covers the dataset and GeoJSON structure layer maps require, when to choose points or line…
Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Updating a SageMaker AI endpoint that has Application Auto Scaling registered makes AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK deployments fail. This post shows how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct with CloudFormation custom resources that deregisters and re-registers aut…
Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide
AWS Machine Learning Blog reports: Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI trains models on the outcome of a whole multi-step task rather than labeled steps. This hands-on guide walks the full pipeline using Wordle: deploying the agent and reward on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore,…
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
TechCrunch – AI reports: Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
TechCrunch – AI reports: OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
TechCrunch – AI reports: A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
The Verge – AI reports: Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to restrict the 'associated with your pro…
Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping
The Verge – AI reports: Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the term…
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
The Verge – AI reports: OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without ri…
Security Update on PHP2Shell: Impact for Docker Customers
Docker Blog reports: On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Docker began tracking two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, commonly known as PHP2Shell.
Screenshot: Capture Images and PDFs with PHP and Laravel
Laravel News reports: Screenshot captures HTML, Blade views, and web pages as PNG, JPEG, or PDF files with Chrome, then saves them locally or to Laravel filesystem disks. The post Screenshot: Capture Images and PDFs with PHP and Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to…
Laravel Read Replicas: Prevent Stale Reads After a Write
Laravel News reports: Laravel's PreventStaleDatabaseReads middleware keeps a user's reads on the write database after they save, so read replica lag doesn't show them old data. The post Laravel Read Replicas: Prevent Stale Reads After a Write appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newslett…