Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions

Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including “questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests.” The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses. It’s available starting today in search, the Gemini app, all tiers of Google … Read more

How Natera designed an agentic AI system for lab ops with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

At Natera, a leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, keeping lab instruments up and running is critical, because equipment downtime disrupts sample processing. Natera’s lab engineering team, led by Ariel Jirau worked with AWS to build SWARM (Systematic Workflow Analytics and Resolutions Manager), an agentic AI system for lab operations. This post walks through how … Read more

‘It’s a mistake for Nvidia to let Jensen resign’: reactions from tech leaders on Jensen Huang’s resignation

Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New York Times only reporting on Friday that Huang and the suspected spy were “close” before other … Read more

Four Amazon Bedrock inference choices that affect cost

Your Amazon Bedrock inference bill can keep climbing after you tune prompts and application logic. Request-level choices can still change how many tokens the service processes and the rate applied to them. Cache duration, service tier, reasoning effort, and maxTokens can affect cost without changing your model or prompt. Each choice depends on the model … Read more

Microsoft Outlook is down

Over the last hour or so, reports have come in from around the world that people can’t access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that “We’ve determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is … Read more

Building a self-service LLM gateway with Amazon Bedrock and LiteLLM

Developers want AI coding assistants with minimal setup. With a large language model (LLM) gateway and LiteLLM, they can quickly access foundation models (FMs) available on Amazon Bedrock while you gain visibility and usage control. Platform teams need to monitor latency and errors, finance teams need to attribute inference costs to teams and projects, and … Read more