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Booking a phlebotomy appointment shouldn’t be a hassle for oncology patients already managing treatment. Natera’s service, powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, allows a phlebotomist to come to the patient, helping Natera deliver a more convenient experience. Natera, a global diagnostics company specializing in cell-free DNA testing, wanted to transform their patient experience by replacing manual … Read more
In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script mode on managed framework containers from AWS to write custom training and inference code. Script mode was a leap forward: you didn’t need to build or maintain Docker images to run your own algorithm on … Read more
Data preparation for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) doesn’t end when your dataset is clean and correctly formatted. The harder questions come next. How much data do you actually need? Should you collect more, or select a better subset of what you have? How do you generate high-quality examples when human annotation doesn’t scale? And how do … Read more
Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning (SFT) project. You’ve evaluated your foundation model (FM), and out-of-the-box performance isn’t meeting your production requirements. Maybe the model doesn’t follow your output schema reliably, struggles with your domain’s classification taxonomy, or can’t maintain the tone your application demands. The question isn’t whether to customize, it’s … Read more
The securities regulator’s crypto custody overhaul could clarify how investment advisers and funds hold digital assets for clients as the proposal moves through review.
A shift toward faster, more rate-sensitive deposits could push banks into safer assets, constrain lending, and raise borrowing costs, Dallas Fed researchers said.
A new survey finds broad skepticism toward crypto in workplace retirement plans as US policymakers move to expand access to alternative assets.
A screenshot from Apple’s events website. Apple’s next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a “Surprise and shine” tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream … Read more
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.
AI filmmaking burnout rarely comes from generating too many clips. It comes from quietly becoming your own set designer, colorist, sound editor, and producer at the same time, with nobody around to tell you that’s five jobs, not one. I noticed it on a week when Lost Garden wasn’t even going badly. The shots were … Read more
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there with it. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis is joined by Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup … Read more
Bitcoin stayed away from challenging $80,000 after July US PCE inflation data came in slightly higher than anticipated, pressuring gold and risk assets.
Organizations often deploy agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model. These agents may access governed knowledge bases hosted in separate AWS accounts. This cross-account separation helps maintain clear workload boundaries but can introduce integration challenges. This post explains how AgentCore agents in … Read more
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
XRP led losses among the 10 biggest cryptocurrencies today. The charts show the real test for its rally is only getting started.
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo’s cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The … Read more
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Shinhan Financial Group will use Visa’s platform to test stablecoin issuance, remittance, and redemption while building new AI-powered payment models.
The proposal would let validator keys grow to 8,192 bytes and adds a switch that permanently retires today’s BLS signatures.
CTDG Dev Hub participant’s protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution, allowing network nodes to reach agreement on blocks before transaction execution completes.
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Security teams have spent years trying to automate investigations without losing the judgment and controls that make those investigations reliable. Traditional playbooks provide structure but can become outdated as environments change, while fully autonomous AI agents introduce a different concern: whether organizations can trust them to make consequential decisions. SiliconANGLE first reported on Mate Security’s … Read more
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk’s Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most. Two tokens can trade under the same ticker while granting … Read more
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn’t heard before.
The federal cyber agency’s warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.
Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. “Most Xbox One and … Read more
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