Amazon gets out of the MMO game

Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting “a significant amount” of its work on first-party AAA games, “specifically around MMOs,” Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne … Read more

Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video

Maybe don’t let the AI shred next time. | Image: D’Addario After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D’Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various … Read more

Crypto Long & Short:

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, LMAX Group’s Jenna Wright argues that markets break down not from too little capital but from capital stuck in the wrong place, trapped by settlement cycles while risk reprices by the minute. She makes the case that stablecoins and tokenization are quietly becoming the plumbing that lets money … Read more

How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS

This post is co-authored with OneAdvanced team Deploying AI agents on a United Kingdom (UK)-sovereign AWS architecture requires careful decisions about model hosting, data residency, and agent orchestration. OneAdvanced, a UK-based enterprise software provider serving over 10,000 customers, needed to deliver AI capabilities while making sure that no data would leave the UK. At the … Read more

Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

This post is co-written with Patrick Duffy from Solv Labs and Houman Shadab from ICME Labs Solv Labs built an AI agent-payments workflow using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, governed by two layers: ORACLE (Solv’s policy engine) and ICME PreFlight for compliance verification. AgentCore payments provides the payment processing infrastructure. … Read more