Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions

TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating “in good faith” to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to … Read more

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” – but the company promises that won’t … Read more

AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and coding agents like Kiro often struggle with the gap between conceptual frameworks and working code. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a service for building, connecting, and optimizing agents at scale with any framework or model. AI-DLC positions AI as a central collaborator across … Read more

Set up OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM can provide centralized enterprise controls for generative AI coding agents. These agents help developers understand repositories, write code, run tests, and complete multi-step engineering tasks. As organizations move from individual experimentation to managed adoption, teams need a consistent way to control model access and attribute consumption. They must also apply … Read more

Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate

Agentic automations are transforming how enterprises run their business processes. Instead of following rigid scripts, AI agents reason about context, adapt to variation, and collaborate with people and other agents to move work forward. Amazon Quick Automate is a multi-agent automation capability within Amazon Quick that helps organizations build, deploy, and maintain these automations at … Read more

12 Hours, 100 Rooms, 1 Hotel in Albania: How I Fixed WiFi and IPTV Chaos Without a Controller

The Disaster Scenario Location: 100-room hotel, Albania Problem: Unstable WiFi + IPTV not working in any room Root cause: The WiFi contractor had installed 100 TP-Link wall APs (TL-WXAP1502GI-PoE) in standalone FAT mode — no Omada controller, no VLANs, no plan. Deadline: 12 hours to fix it, or the hotel would open to guests with … Read more