Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate

Build an end-to-end Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate to solve a challenge organizations face at every scale. A typical enterprise might handle hundreds of RFI questionnaires each year, and each arrives as a complex, multi-tab workbook packed with hierarchical question sets, category metadata, and varied response types. The volume, variety, … Read more

Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs

A configurable, instruction-driven detector that runs on any large language model (LLM) managed on Amazon Bedrock, evaluated on five public PII corpora across nine LLM-based detectors, including the OpenAI PrivacyFilter. Fine-tuning a model on real-world text creates a personally identifiable information (PII) detection problem. Training corpora are full of PII: names, home addresses, email and … Read more

Electric air taxis get the green light for test flights in Texas

A new federal program to test the feasibility of electric, hybrid-electric, and autonomous aircraft kicks off today in Texas – before the rules governing this new technology have even been finalized. Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) selected eight state-led … Read more

Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations

Multi-turn agents fail in ways that single-turn evaluation misses: one early mistake quietly corrupts every later turn. This post introduces the Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM), a decomposable, turn-level way to measure agent quality. We apply it to its first dimension, correctness. We show how AEM pinpoints the one turn that caused a failure and separates … Read more

How AvioBook builds turnaround insights from operational data with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

This post is co-written with Petra Lafond, Product Manager, and Maarten Cardinaels, Tech Lead at AvioBook, a Thales Group Company. Airlines run on tight, cascading schedules, and accessing operational data holds the key to protecting them. During turnarounds, a few minutes of delay at one gate can ripple through an entire day of connections. It … Read more

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs, a company that specializes … Read more

Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out

I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company’s first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can “take the busywork off your plate” by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided … Read more

Wolverine on the PS5 goes back to a simpler (and bloodier) style of action game

Marvel’s Wolverine captures just how angry its lead character is. The latest PS5 exclusive from Spider-Man developer Insomniac, Wolverine is a straightforward action game that is at its best when you’re (literally) slicing through enemies or thrust into a sequence pulled from a blockbuster movie, like climbing the fuselage of a plane as it careens … Read more

Another big James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats

Jimmy Kimmel will be interviewing Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico “under unusual circumstances,” posting the interview directly to YouTube, rather than airing it on TV during Jimmy Kimmel Live. In Wednesday night’s episode, Kimmel said this was out of concern for retaliation from the Trump administration’s FCC: [Trump’s] FCC has threatened me, threatened our … Read more