Cybercrime gang hacks major health data provider – millions of highly personal files could be at risk of breach
World Leaks adds Freedman HealthCare to its data leak site The group claims to have…
Managed Tiered KV Cache and Intelligent Routing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Modern AI applications demand fast, cost-effective responses from large language models, especially when handling long documents or extended conversations. However, LLM inference can become prohibitively slow and expensive as context length increases, with latency growing exponentially and costs mounting with each interaction. LLM inference requires recalculating attention mechanisms for the previous tokens when generating each…
How CBRE powers unified property management search and digital assistant using Amazon Bedrock
This post was written with Lokesha Thimmegowda, Muppirala Venkata Krishna Kumar, and Maraka Vishwadev of CBRE. CBRE is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company serves clients in more than 100 countries and offers services ranging from capital markets and leasing advisory to investment management, project management and facilities management….
How Myriad Genetics achieved fast, accurate, and cost-efficient document processing using the AWS open-source Generative AI Intelligent Document Processing Accelerator
This post was written with Martyna Shallenberg and Brode Mccrady from Myriad Genetics. Healthcare organizations face challenges in processing and managing high volumes of complex medical documentation while maintaining quality in patient care. These organizations need solutions to process documents effectively to meet growing demands. Myriad Genetics, a provider of genetic testing and precision medicine solutions…
Keeping the internet free together: State of the Onion Community Day
Fighting for a free internet requires collective action. And the Tor Project is proud to be in the company of many likeminded organizations that work to maintain and restore access to trustworthy information for millions of people globally. Tune into the State of the Onion: Community Day livestream to hear directly from other members of…
How researchers are using Google’s biology AI system AlphaFold
5. Finding new life in Japan’s hot springs While studying microbes in the hot springs of Japan, Dr. Syun-ichi Urayama’s team discovered unusual viruses. Using AlphaFold to predict their protein structures, the team confirmed they belonged to a widespread, previously unknown family of life, revealing a new branch of molecular evolution. These five stories from…
Illuminated – Hearing Aids – BBC Sounds
Available for over a year Like so many people at a similar time of life, the poet Paul Farley is facing up to the fact that he might need hearing aids. His wife has been asking him to turn down the volume on the telly for years, and has given up shouting downstairs for him…
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday. Four members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice tell WIRED that they began asking…
NHS doctor suspended over alleged antisemitic social media posts
An NHS resident doctor has been suspended by a medical tribunal for 15 months after posting alleged antisemitic comments on social media. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a 31-year-old trainee trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, was also alleged to have expressed support for “violent action and terrorist organisations”. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) said Dr Aladwan’s posts…
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs. Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven’t been publicly identified. But the…
Beyond the technology: Workforce changes for AI
Workplaces are increasingly integrating AI tools into daily operations, with AI assistants supporting teams, predictive analytics informing strategies, and automation streamlining workflows. AI has moved from experimental technology to standard business practice, changing how work gets done. Organizations need to understand what AI can do and how it affects their workforce to implement it successfully….
