Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick

Quick Apps could already bring live data into an app from connectors and content sources: action connectors (services like Jira, Slack, and Google Drive), Spaces documents, web search, and AI inference all run at view time, not build time. The solution introduces live structured data from your data lakes, databases, and other analytics data stores. … Read more

Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone’s camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google’s AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around … Read more

Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off its staff

Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing. Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central‘s staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and former … Read more

Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors

In my previous post: Building persistent memory for multi-agent AI systems with Amazon S3 Vectors, we explored why memory engineering is the foundational discipline for production multi-agent systems. We showed how Amazon S3 Vectors, a capability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), meets the architectural requirements for agent memory: semantic retrieval, rich metadata, strong … Read more

Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” that’s a result of Sony’s Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post. Sony says that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which is … Read more

Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS

Generative AI has made it possible to produce large amounts of personalized content quickly and at low cost. In our previous post, we showed how generative AI on Amazon Bedrock can produce personalized content at scale while staying within brand guidelines and guardrails. The new challenge is now one of selection. Among all of those … Read more