Say goodbye to spam calls – NordVPN launches new spam call protection
NordVPN has introduced Spam Call Protection for US Android users The feature has been designed…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod enhances ML infrastructure with scalability and customizability
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is a purpose-built infrastructure for optimizing foundation model (FM) training and inference at scale. SageMaker HyperPod removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in building and optimizing machine learning (ML) infrastructure for training FMs, reducing training time by up to 40%. SageMaker HyperPod offers persistent clusters with built-in resiliency, while also offering deep…
Accelerate intelligent document processing with generative AI on AWS
Every day, organizations process millions of documents, including invoices, contracts, insurance claims, medical records, and financial statements. Despite the critical role these documents play, an estimated 80–90% of the data they contain is unstructured and largely untapped, hiding valuable insights that could transform business outcomes. Despite advances in technology, many organizations still rely on manual…
Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law
Eligibility and Cost Sharing Policies Section 71119: Work Requirements Background Prior to passage of the federal budget reconciliation law, Medicaid eligibility could not be conditioned on meeting a work or reporting requirement without obtaining a Medicaid Section 1115 waiver. During the first Trump administration, 13 states received approval to implement work requirements through Section 1115…
The Trump-Intel Deal Is Official
The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel, representing a 9.9 percent stake in the company, according to a press release the company published on Friday. The investment will be funded by $5.7 billion in grants Intel was awarded under the 2022 CHIPS Act and $3.2 billion the company was awarded…
Will Serena Williams’s weight-loss admission help shed stigma of anti-obesity drugs?
Serena Williams, one of the most successful athletes of all time, has spoken out about using weight loss drugs – she says, to lift the “stigma” around using such medication. Will her outspoken comments instil a new sense of confidence in those using the drugs? And could her honesty quieten the critics? The 43-year-old tennis…
Enhance Geospatial Analysis and GIS Workflows with Amazon Bedrock Capabilities
As data becomes more abundant and information systems grow in complexity, stakeholders need solutions that reveal quality insights. Applying emerging technologies to the geospatial domain offers a unique opportunity to create transformative user experiences and intuitive workstreams for users and organizations to deliver on their missions and responsibilities. In this post, we explore how you…
Ruth Porat on AI and its applications in finance
Applying the model in finance Risk management Starting with risk management, there was no shortage of lessons from the global financial crisis. One of the greatest privileges of my career was to be seconded from Morgan Stanley to work with U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and many of you at the Federal Reserve during that…
Join Our Next Livestream: Back to School in the Age of AI
Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our…
Beyond the basics: A comprehensive foundation model selection framework for generative AI
Most organizations evaluating foundation models limit their analysis to three primary dimensions: accuracy, latency, and cost. While these metrics provide a useful starting point, they represent an oversimplification of the complex interplay of factors that determine real-world model performance. Foundation models have revolutionized how enterprises develop generative AI applications, offering unprecedented capabilities in understanding and…
What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer
We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King’s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in Living Reviews in Relativity, in…
