Apple quietly reveals how its Maps ads will differ from Google’s

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, and roofers from advertising on Apple Maps, along with several other sensitive categories, suggesting Apple is taking a more curated approach to these ads.

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Document processing in real estate is complex and highly manual, impacting critical business decisions at scale, making it ripe for automation. Built Technologies, a real estate finance software provider, processes over $500B in real estate projects. The company deployed an AI-powered document processing engine on Amazon Bedrock and the AWS Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Accelerator. … Read more

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers

The integration of AI into real-world applications has long been hindered by a fundamental challenge: the disconnect between systems that can see, systems that can think, and systems that can act. Developers have struggled with complex integrations, managing multiple APIs, and creating custom solutions to bridge these gaps, resulting in inefficient, costly, and often fragile … Read more

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

Using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, organizations can automate their machine learning (ML) workloads and distribute them over many AWS accounts and AWS Regions as part of their Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) strategy. However, monitoring SageMaker Pipelines can become complex when they are distributed across many AWS environments. Developers and operations engineers must manually switch between multiple … Read more

OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn’t the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit. Instead, it’s a product designed to be used with its coding platform, Codex. The device, a square-shaped block of buttons called Codex Micro, … Read more