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AI meets HR: Transforming talent acquisition with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show how to create an AI-powered recruitment system using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, AWS Lambda, and other AWS services to enhance job description creation, candidate communication, and interview preparation while maintaining human oversight.

Build long-running MCP servers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Strands Agents integration

In this post, we provide you with a comprehensive approach to achieve this. First, we introduce a context message strategy that maintains continuous communication between servers and clients during extended operations. Next, we develop an asynchronous task management framework that allows your AI agents to initiate long-running processes without blocking other operations. Finally, we demonstrate how to bring these strategies together with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents to build production-ready AI agents that can handle complex, time-intensive operations reliably.

Join us for Interrupt: The Agent Conference

Interrupt - The Agent Conference by LangChain - is where builders come to learn what's actually working in production. This year, we're bringing together more than 1,000 developers, product leaders, researchers, and founders to share what's coming next for agents—and how

Browserbase joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace

New deployments with vulnerable versions of the third-party package next-mdx-remote are n…

OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments

Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again

While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS 27 in September.

Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri

Apple had been reportedly pushing to introduce some big changes to Siri with iOS 26.4, but now the company is planning to introduce them in later versions of iOS, including iOS 26.5 and iOS 27, Bloomberg reports. Nearly a year ago, Apple delayed planned features for Siri that would let it understand your personal context […]

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts.

The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesti…

WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...] Read More... The post The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It appeared first on Engineering at Meta .

Mastering Amazon Bedrock throttling and service availability: A comprehensive guide

This post shows you how to implement robust error handling strategies that can help improve application reliability and user experience when using Amazon Bedrock. We'll dive deep into strategies for optimizing performances for the application with these errors. Whether this is for a fairly new application or matured AI application, in this post you will be able to find the practical guidelines to operate with on these errors.

Swann provides Generative AI to millions of IoT Devices using Amazon Bedrock

This post shows you how to implement intelligent notification filtering using Amazon Bedrock and its gen-AI capabilities. You'll learn model selection strategies, cost optimization techniques, and architectural patterns for deploying gen-AI at IoT scale, based on Swann Communications deployment across millions of devices.

How LinqAlpha assesses investment theses using Devil’s Advocate on Amazon Bedrock

LinqAlpha is a Boston-based multi-agent AI system built specifically for institutional investors. The system supports and streamlines agentic workflows across company screening, primer generation, stock price catalyst mapping, and now, pressure-testing investment ideas through a new AI agent called Devil’s Advocate. In this post, we share how LinqAlpha uses Amazon Bedrock to build and scale Devil’s Advocate.

Vercel Flags is now in public beta

How Amazon uses Amazon Nova models to automate operational readiness testing for new fulf…

In this post, we discuss how Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock can be used to implement an AI-powered image recognition solution that automates the detection and validation of module components, significantly reducing manual verification efforts and improving accuracy.

Iberdrola enhances IT operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest utility companies, has embraced cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionize its IT operations in ServiceNow. Through its partnership with AWS, Iberdrola implemented different agentic architectures using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, targeting three key areas: optimizing change request validation in the draft phase, enriching incident management with contextual intelligence, and simplifying change model selection using conversational AI. These innovations reduce bottlenecks, help teams accelerate ticket resolution, and deliver consistent and high-quality data handling throughout the organization.

Building real-time voice assistants with Amazon Nova Sonic compared to cascading architec…

Amazon Nova Sonic delivers real-time, human-like voice conversations through the bidirectional streaming interface. In this post, you learn how Amazon Nova Sonic can solve some of the challenges faced by cascaded approaches, simplify building voice AI agents, and provide natural conversational capabilities. We also provide guidance on when to choose each approach to help you make informed decisions for your voice AI projects.

Fitbit’s personal health coach is expanding to more people in public preview.

Fitbit’s personal health coach experience is expanding to more people around the world.Starting today and over the next few weeks, the personal health coach (which is al…

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to…

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering

We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.

Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark

Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.

xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.

Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger

Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation - the biggest merger of all time - a handful of xAI employees and two of its co-founders have abruptly exited the company, penning long departure announcements online. Some also […]

Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges in order to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to power grids. "This includes the shares of these costs […]

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company.

Here are the brands bringing ads to ChatGPT

OpenAI officially launched its advertising pilot in ChatGPT, leaving us with a better idea of the kinds of products we might see stuffed beneath our conversations with the AI chatbot. Several companies have announced plans to show ads inside ChatGPT - placements that will reportedly cost them a pretty penny - ranging from major retailers […]

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

By Ryan Lopopolo, Member of the Technical Staff

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B MoE model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today we’re excited to announce that the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B model with  3B active parameters is now generally available in the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart model catalog. You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with Nemotron 3 Nano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without having to manage model deployment complexities. You can power your generative AI applications with Nemotron capabilities using the managed deployment capabilities offered by SageMaker JumpStart.

3 ways you can use Pixel for translation help this Lunar Year.

Lunar New Year is approaching, and 2026 is the Year of the Horse. Whether you’re traveling for the holiday or connecting with loved ones overseas, language barriers shou…

This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry

If you have a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hate folding laundry, and happen to live in the Bay Area, one-and-a-half-year-old startup Weave has the robot for you: Isaac 0. It takes Isaac 0 around 30-90 minutes to fold a load of laundry, Weave says. That's all it does - it's stationary and needs […]

Our new report details the latest ways threat actors are misusing AI.

Learn more about how threat actors are misusing AI, and what Google is doing to stop it.

NVIDIA DGX Spark Powers Big Projects in Higher Education

At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ systems. There’s even a DGX Spark hard at work in the South Pole, at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The compact supercomputer’s petaflop‑class performance enables local deployment Read Article

GeForce NOW Turns Screens Into a Gaming Machine

The GeForce NOW sixth-anniversary festivities roll on this February, continuing a monthlong celebration of NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service. This week brings even more reasons to join the party, as GeForce NOW launches on a new platform with support for Amazon Fire TV devices, and eight new games to keep the streaming going strong. The new Read Article

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3 new experiences bridging AI with India’s timeless heritage

Ahead of the India AI Summit, Google Arts & Culture is releasing new experiences that delve into India’s cultural heritage.

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.

How we’re helping democracies stay ahead of digital threats

An overview of Google’s work at the 2026 Munich Security Conference, including a new whitepaper, AI updates and security recommendations.

Is your campaign structure holding you back in the era of AI?

For years, the gold standard in Search ads was granularity. Advertisers built elaborate, multi-layered campaigns to cover every variable, from match types to device bids…

Stability AI Joins the Tech Coalition

We’re pleased to share that Stability AI has joined the Tech Coalition, a global alliance of leading technology companies working together to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Instagram and X have an impossible deepfake detection deadline

The best methods we currently have for detecting and labelling deepfakes online are about to get a stress test. India announced mandates on Tuesday that require social media platforms to remove illegal AI-generated materials much faster, and ensure that all synthetic content is clearly labeled. Tech companies have said for years that they wanted to […]

What to expect in digital advertising and commerce in 2026

Google VP Vidhya Srinivasan shares how Google is reimagining commercial experiences to be fluid, assistive and personal in 2026.

How an ‘icepocalypse’ raises more questions about Meta’s biggest data center project

Donna Collins lives about 20 miles from where Meta's biggest data center is being built, in a house her family has lived in for five generations. Construction has thrown the small agricultural community in North Louisiana into the spotlight as a high-profile example of how the infrastructure behind generative AI could impact nearby residents. For […]

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Advanced egress firewall filtering for Vercel Sandbox

9 fun questions to try asking Google Photos

Learn more about Google Photos’ new Ask button as well as other functions of its Ask Photos feature.

Stay in control of your personal information online

Results about you tool now helps you find and request the removal of Search results containing your government-issued IDs.