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I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the AI industry has been entrenching itself with the Department of Defense.

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

As your conversational AI initiatives evolve, developing Amazon Lex assistants becomes increasingly complex. Multiple developers working on the same shared Lex instance leads to configuration conflicts, overwritten changes, and slower iteration cycles. Scaling Amazon Lex development requires isolated environments, version control, and automated deployment pipelines. By adopting well-structured continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices,

Organizations increasingly deploy custom large language models (LLMs) on Amazon SageMaker AI real-time endpoints using their preferred serving frameworks—such as SGLang, vLLM, or TorchServe—to help gain greater control over their deployments, optimize costs, and align with compliance requirements. However, this flexibility introduces a critical technical challenge: response format incompatibility with Strands agents. While these custom

Amazon Connect Health automates administrative tasks like scheduling and documentation with AI, freeing health care providers to focus on patient care.

The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

“Data centers … they need some PR help,” said President Donald Trump at the event.