Month: September 2025

Tesla’s new ‘Master Plan’ sounds like AI slop

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Tesla’s Optimus robots briefly served popcorn at the company’s diner — before going offline. Tesla’s latest “Master Plan” makes a few things clear right out of the gate: the company that was once known for accelerating the push toward a brighter future by popularizing electric vehicles and renewable energy is no longer interested in that … Read more

Natural language-based database analytics with Amazon Nova

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In this post, we explore how natural language database analytics can revolutionize the way organizations interact with their structured data through the power of large language model (LLM) agents. Natural language interfaces to databases have long been a goal in data management. Agents enhance database analytics by breaking down complex queries into explicit, verifiable reasoning … Read more

Deploy Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases using Terraform for RAG-based generative AI applications

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful approach for building generative AI applications by providing foundation models (FMs) access to additional, relevant data. This approach improves response accuracy and transparency while avoiding the potential cost and complexity of FM training or fine-tuning. Many customers use Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to help implement RAG workflows. You … Read more

SmartGold, Chintai Tokenize $1.6B in IRA Gold, Add DeFi Yield for U.S. Investors

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SmartGold, a gold-backed individual retirement account (IRA) provider, has partnered with tokenization platform Chintai Nexus to let U.S. investors put their gold holdings on blockchain rails and earn a yield in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. With the structure, IRA-held gold is tokenized 1:1 on Chintai’s regulated platform, then can be put to work as collateral … Read more

Document intelligence evolved: Building and evaluating KIE solutions that scale

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Intelligent document processing (IDP) refers to the automated extraction, classification, and processing of data from various document formats—both structured and unstructured. Within the IDP landscape, key information extraction (KIE) serves as a fundamental component, enabling systems to identify and extract critical data points from documents with minimal human intervention. Organizations across diverse sectors—including financial services, … Read more

Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

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Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAI’s chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company said in a press release that between the start of 2025 and August — less than nine months — … Read more

Announcing the new cluster creation experience for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

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Today, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is announcing a new one-click, validated cluster creation experience that accelerates setup and prevents common misconfigurations, so you can launch your distributed training and inference clusters complete with Slurm or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) orchestration, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) networking, high-performance storage, and security built in by … Read more

Solana Set for Major Overhaul After 98% Votes to Approve Historic ‘Alpenglow’ Upgrade

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The Solana community voted overwhelmingly in favor of the long-awaited Alpenglow upgrade, bringing the network one step closer to the most significant technical transformation in its history. According to Solana Status on X on Monday, 98.27% of SOL stakers that voted approved the proposal, with only 1.05% voting against and 0.36% abstaining. In total, 52% … Read more