Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

This post was co-written with Kevin Jones from Ampersend (Edge & Node) and Chethan Shriyan from the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments team. Ampersend and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments are addressing one of the hardest problems in agentic AI. How do autonomous agents pay for services without developers building bespoke billing integrations, credential management, and payment … Read more

Google invests in A24 to build AI movie tools

The deal is reportedly non-exclusive, and will span “multiple projects over time.” | Image by The Verge Google’s DeepMind AI lab is teaming up with A24 to develop new movie production technologies that aim to help future filmmakers “expand their storytelling possibilities.” As part of this new research and development collaboration, The Wall Street Journal … Read more

Here’s how you can reserve a Steam Machine

The Steam Machine is here, but getting one is a little complicated. Valve is taking preorders using a reservation system, which is intended to make the process more fair and harder for bots to exploit. However, it’s a bit different than the $5 reservations Valve used for the Steam Deck. Starting today, you can sign … Read more

RingConn’s Lord of the Rings promotion assumes smart ring wearers want to be like Gollum

Smart ring maker RingConn’s marketing copy says Lord of the Rings’ “enduring narrative highlights a simple but powerful idea: that meaningful transformation often begins with the choices we make each day. RingConn embraces a similar philosophy, believing that lasting change begins with everyday awareness and small, intentional decisions.” Of course, the “intentional decisions” Frodo makes … Read more

Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale

Turning a library of aerial imagery into a natural-language-searchable knowledge base is a problem that touches every industry that relies on geospatial data — insurance, real estate, government, infrastructure, and agriculture. The traditional path requires either manual tile-by-tile inspection or training a bespoke computer vision model for each new question. Multimodal embeddings, large language model … Read more

Running ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs

With ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs, you can automate content generation at scale. For enterprises, every delay or misstep in creating compelling multimedia assets can mean lost sales, faded brand relevance, or missed marketing deadlines. When a product launch deadline looms or a seasonal promotion needs urgent assets, waiting for designers to … Read more

How to Rotate Proxies Without Breaking Login Sessions

To rotate proxies without breaking login sessions, keep the same IP address, cookies, browser fingerprint, and user-agent tied together for the duration of a session. Rotate only between sessions, accounts, or workflows. Randomly changing IPs mid-login often triggers security checks, forced logouts, CAPTCHA challenges, or account verification. Login sessions are not just about usernames and … Read more

RAG Is Not Personalization

Most AI memory features work by retrieving past interactions and appending them to a prompt, creating the appearance of personalization without changing how the model actually reasons. This article argues that real personalization requires understanding user motivations, context, and intent rather than simply storing behavioral history. The companies that build systems capable of capturing and … Read more