For years, the cost of using “free” services from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other Big Tech firms has been handing over your data. Uploading your life into the cloud and using free tech brings conveniences, but it puts personal information in the hands of giant corporations that will often be looking to monetize it. Now,…
At Amazon, our culture, built on honest and transparent discussion of our growth opportunities, enables us to focus on investing and innovating to continually raise the standard on our ability to deliver value for our customers. Earlier this month, we had the opportunity to share an example of this process at work in Mantle, our…
This post is cowritten with Sangeetha Bharath and Seemal Zaman from Visa. Across every industry, agentic AI is redefining how work gets done by shifting digital experiences from manual, user-driven interactions to autonomous, outcome-driven workflows. Unlike traditional AI systems that merely answer questions or provide suggestions, agentic AI introduces intelligent agents capable of reasoning, acting,…
Marketing teams face increasing pressure to create engaging campaigns quickly while maintaining brand consistency and creative quality. Traditional marketing campaign creation processes often involve multiple iterations between creative teams, stakeholders, and external agencies, leading to extended timelines and increased costs. The advent and availability of generative models (especially image and video generation ones) has opened…
This post is cowritten with Dr. Mikkel Hansen from Qbtech. The assessment and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) has traditionally relied on clinical observations and behavioral evaluations. While these methods are valuable, the process can be complex and time-intensive. Qbtech, founded in 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, enhances ADHD diagnosis by integrating objective measurements…
dLocal, Uruguay’s first unicorn, has established itself as a pioneer in cross-border payments since its founding in 2016. Today, the company operates in over 40 emerging countries, connecting more than two billion consumers with global technology leaders. Operating at this scale requires strict and consistent compliance processes. Each month, thousands of merchant ecommerce websites are…
This post is co-written by Thomas Capelle and Ray Strickland from Weights & Biases (W&B). Generative artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is accelerating across enterprises, evolving from simple foundation model interactions to sophisticated agentic workflows. As organizations transition from proof-of-concepts to production deployments, they require robust tools for development, evaluation, and monitoring of AI applications at…
Building intelligent agents to handle complex, real-world tasks can be daunting. Additionally, rather than relying solely on large, pre-trained foundation models, organizations often need to fine-tune and customize smaller, more specialized models to outperform them for their specific use cases. The AWS AI League provides an innovative program to help enterprises overcome the challenges of building…
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Some users of popular chatbots are generating bikini deepfakes using photos of fully clothed women as their source material. Most of these fake images appear to be generated without the consent of the women in the photos. Some of these same users are also offering advice to others on how to use the generative AI…
