Labubu-maker Pop Mart diversifies into jewellery with new concept store
By Reuters Published June 15, 2025 “Blind box” toymaker Pop Mart, which has seen frenzied…
Accelerating LLM inference with post-training weight and activation using AWQ and GPTQ on Amazon SageMaker AI
Foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) have been rapidly scaling, often doubling in parameter count within months, leading to significant improvements in language understanding and generative capabilities. This rapid growth comes with steep costs: inference now requires enormous memory capacity, high-performance GPUs, and substantial energy consumption. This trend is evident in the open…
State-Based Efforts Will Provide Limited Relief from Enhanced Tax Credit Expiration
After failed Senate votes late last year and no subsequent bipartisan agreement, the enhanced premium tax credits expired as of January 1. Some states, particularly those operating State-Based Marketplaces (SBMs), have been preparing for this possibility for months and are moving to blunt the impact on consumers by implementing their own state-funded subsidies and implementing other programs aimed at stabilizing the cost of unsubsidized premiums. State-Specific Subsidies SBMs have…
Sentiment Analysis with Text and Audio Using AWS Generative AI Services: Approaches, Challenges, and Solutions
This post is co-written by Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia Itaú (ICTi) and AWS. Sentiment analysis has grown increasingly important in modern enterprises, providing insights into customer opinions, satisfaction levels, and potential frustrations. As interactions occur largely through text (such as social media, chat applications, and ecommerce reviews) or voice (such as call centers and…
How Beekeeper optimized user personalization with Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten by Mike Koźmiński from Beekeeper. Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly, making it difficult for organizations to select the best model for each specific use case, optimize prompts for quality and cost, adapt to changing model capabilities, and personalize responses for different users. Choosing the “right” LLM and prompt isn’t…
Exploring the New Security Risks of Interconnected IoT at CES 2026
Attending CES over the last several years has provided me with a valuable opportunity to observe how rapidly IoT technology continues to evolve across consumer and enterprise domains. This was my fourth year attending CES and I have seen a continued growth and advancement across multiple technology categories, from mobile devices and wearables, to AI-driven…
X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the changes, the chatbot is still being used to create “undressing” sexualized images on the platform. On Friday morning, the Grok account on X started responding to…
Trump Administration Drops Medicaid Vaccine Reporting Requirements
In a letter to state health officials last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the removal of immunization measures from the Child Core Set and Adult Core Set. These “Core Sets” measure health care performance annually, with the goal of improving the health of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Filling in the Gap in Federal Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood: State Responses
In a policy action long sought after by abortion opponents, the federal government now has codified a ban on Medicaid funds that support care provided at Planned Parenthood clinics and other locations. Section 71113 of the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law, prevents Medicaid payments to certain reproductive health care entities that provide abortion care for one year from the date of enactment. This ban includes all services including contraceptive care,…
Healthy living tips from the Gladiators
Athena, Electro, Dynamite and Giant share their top tips to stay fit and healthy. Source link
The New Federal Vaccine Schedule for Children: What Changed and What Are the Implications?
As widely expected, and following a recent Presidential memorandum, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a memo on January 5, 2026 implementing major changes to the government’s recommended vaccination schedule for children, adding to other changes previously made in 2025. Collectively, these changes reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children…
