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At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco, more than 100 coders gathered to test whether they could beat AI—and win a $12,500 cash prize.

In her new book, feminist author Laura Bates explores how sexbots, AI assistants, and deepfakes are reinventing misogyny and harming women.

As organizations scale their AI infrastructure to support trillion-parameter models, they face a difficult trade-off: reduced training time with lower cost or faster training time with a higher cost. When they checkpoint frequently to speed up recovery time and minimize lost training time, they incur in substantially higher storage cost. And when they checkpoint infrequently,

K2 Think compares well with reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek but is smaller and more efficient, say researchers based in Abu Dhabi.

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained compute and memory quota allocation with HyperPod task governance. With this capability, customers can optimize Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster utilization on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), distribute fair usage, and support efficient resource allocation across different teams or projects. For more information, see HyperPod task governance best

Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with their existing tools, handle multi-step processes, and make decisions independently. This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through

This post was written with Lior Heber and Yarden Ron of Skai. Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is an AI-driven omnichannel advertising and analytics platform designed for brands and agencies to plan, launch, optimize, and measure paid media across search, social, retail media marketplaces and other “walled-garden” channels from a single interface. By unifying data from over

This post was written with Felipe Monroy, Ana Jaime, and Nikita Gordeev from Snoonu. Managing a massive product catalog in the ecommerce space has introduced new hurdles for retailers who are trying to efficiently connect customers with the items they truly want. Traditional one-size-fits-all approaches often result in lost opportunities and reduced customer engagement. For

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.

Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics.