Month: August 2026

Democratizing institutional knowledge: Building an AI-powered knowledge management system with AWS

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Organizations across industries struggle with managing institutional knowledge, the collective wisdom and experience accumulated over years of operations. This “tribal knowledge” often disappears when key personnel leave, creating knowledge gaps that impact efficiency and innovation. Traditional documentation methods have proven inadequate, often resulting in outdated or inaccessible information when it’s needed most. In this post, … Read more

Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership

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The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 “partnership” between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings. … Read more

Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

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Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in … Read more

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery

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How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents As organizations scale their use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents and tools, finding the right resource becomes the hard part. Teams build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, deploy agents, and create specialized tools, but without a central catalog, … Read more

AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization

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As data collection and data generation accelerate, the gap between our ability to produce raw data and our capacity to standardize it continues to widen. Without automation, this gap becomes a critical bottleneck that delays analysis, complicates interpretation, and limits the global value of shared datasets. Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets … Read more

ESPN streaming plans are getting more expensive

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ESPN is hiking the price of its subscription on September 17th, a change that will also impact its bundles with Disney Plus. In a support page spotted earlier by Sports Media Watch, ESPN says its ad-supported Select membership will cost $13.99 instead of $12.99 / month, while its Unlimited plan will rise to $31.99 from … Read more