January 23, 2026
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Agents as escalators: Real-time AI video monitoring with Amazon Bedrock Agents and video streams

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Organizations deploying video monitoring systems face a critical challenge: processing continuous video streams while maintaining accurate situational awareness. Traditional monitoring approaches that use rule-based detection or basic computer vision frequently miss important events or generate excessive false positives, leading to operational inefficiencies and alert fatigue. In this post, we show how to build a fully…

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Did US government cuts contribute to the Texas tragedy?

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Ben Chu, Jake Horton, Kayla Epstein & Marco Silva BBC Verify BBC In the aftermath of the fatal Texas floods, some Democrats have warned about the “consequences” of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government workforce, including meteorologists, with Senator Chris Murphy saying that: “Accurate weather forecasting helps avoid fatal disasters.” The suggestion is…

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Build a just-in-time knowledge base with Amazon Bedrock

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Software as a service (SaaS) companies managing multiple tenants face a critical challenge: efficiently extracting meaningful insights from vast document collections while controlling costs. Traditional approaches often lead to unnecessary spending on unused storage and processing resources, impacting both operational efficiency and profitability. Organizations need solutions that intelligently scale processing and storage resources based on…

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Federal judge pauses Trump administration's Planned Parenthood defunding measure

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A federal judge on Monday prevented the Trump administration from enforcing part of a massive tax and spending bill that would block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood health centers. The temporary restraining order by Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts blocks the “big, beautiful bill’s” provision to defund the family planning provider.  At issue is the…

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