A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket 

Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, … Read more

Process financial documents using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Financial institutions process thousands of documents daily, including tax forms, loan statements, and purchase orders. Each has a unique format, structure, and field names, making it challenging to create automation workflows using optical character recognition (OCR) software. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) helps solve these challenges by automating the extraction, validation, and analysis of data … Read more

Stop Calling Your LLM Once – Split the Call

Most LLM apps fire one giant prompt and pray. The ones that feel fast in production split the work into a planning call plus parallel per-item expansion. You get three wins for free: a much faster time-to-first-byte, real parallelism, and bug isolation when something breaks. The cost is one extra request. The math almost always … Read more

Building AI agents for business support using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Developing AI agents for business support presents unique challenges that many organizations face when trying to automate routine HR tasks. Works Human Intelligence (WHI) develops, sells, and supports the integrated HR system “COMPANY” for major Japanese corporations and public interest corporations. In this post, we share how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) collaborated … Read more

Facebook launches a ‘Plus’ subscription that gives you extra features

After announcing tests of premium subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp earlier this year, TechCrunch and Bloomberg report that Meta is launching a global rollout over the next few weeks and is also starting to test subscriptions for Meta AI. With the new offerings, Meta joins many other tech companies in changing up its subscription plans … Read more

From data overload to actionable insights: How Verizon Connect scaled agentic AI to 100,000 users

A special thanks goes to the Verizon Connect team who’s been working very hard on the project: Matteo Simoncini, Luca Bravi, Alberto Rossettini, Martin Villarruel, Ceyhun Unlu, Adriel Zuquini, Andrea Benericetti. Fleet managers today face an overwhelming challenge: transforming data overload into actionable insights. When you’re managing thousands of vehicles, each generating hundreds of daily … Read more