Elevate customer experience by using the Amazon Q Business custom plugin for New Relic AI

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Digital experience interruptions can harm customer satisfaction and business performance across industries. Application failures, slow load times, and service unavailability can lead to user frustration, decreased engagement, and revenue loss. The risk and impact of outages increase during peak usage periods, which vary by industry—from ecommerce sales events to financial quarter-ends or major product launches. … Read more

Amazon SageMaker launches the updated inference optimization toolkit for generative AI

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Today, Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce updates to the inference optimization toolkit, providing new functionality and enhancements to help you optimize generative AI models even faster. These updates build on the capabilities introduced in the original launch of the inference optimization toolkit (to learn more, see Achieve up to ~2x higher throughput while reducing … Read more

Syngenta develops a generative AI assistant to support sales representatives using Amazon Bedrock Agents

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This post was written with Zach Marston and Serg Masis from Syngenta. Syngenta and AWS collaborated to develop Cropwise AI, an innovative solution powered by Amazon Bedrock Agents, to accelerate their sales reps’ ability to place Syngenta seed products with growers across North America. Cropwise AI harnesses the power of generative AI using AWS to … Read more

Stellantis and Samsung to get $7.54 billion federal loan for two EV battery factories

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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The Department of Energy preliminarily approved another loan to help fund the construction of electric vehicle battery factories in the US. This time, a joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung SDI will receive $7.54 billion to build two EV battery plants in Kokomo, Indiana. The project … Read more

Amazon SageMaker gets unified data controls

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It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, streamlining was the goal. At its re:Invent 2024 conference, AWS unveiled SageMaker Unified Studio, a … Read more

Amazon’s Q Business AI agents gets smarter

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A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business. The focus for Q Business is on new integrations that can help businesses bring in more data from third-party tools, the ability for third-party platforms … Read more

ChatGPT’s search results for news are ‘unpredictable’ and frequently inaccurate

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Illustration: The Verge Based on testing done by Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism researchers, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool has some issues when it comes to responding with the truth. OpenAI launched the tool for subscribers in October, saying it could give “fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.” Instead, Futurism points out … Read more

AWS wants Amazon Q to become your buddy for the entire software development lifecycle

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At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub Copilot. The focus here is on going beyond code completion and to help developers with a wider range of routine tasks involved in the end-to-end software lifecycle. The service, which … Read more

Walmart completes $2.3B acquisition of Vizio to help grow its ad business

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Walmart just closed its acquisition of popular television maker Vizio in an effort to boost its advertising business. The acquisition was initially reported back in February; however, it took a few months to complete due to the waiting period under federal regulations.  The all-cash deal is valued at $2.3 billion.  With this strategic move, Walmart … Read more

AWS and GitLab team up to bring Amazon Q agents to GitLab’s Duo Assistant

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GitLab, the popular developer and security platform, and AWS, the popular cloud computing and AI service, today announced that they have teamed up to combine GitLab’s Duo AI assistant with Amazon’s Q autonomous agents. The goal here, the two companies say, is to accelerate software innovation and developer productivity, and unlike so many partnerships in … Read more

Exploring the Impact of Riemannian Metrics in Human Action Recognition Tasks Using GyroSpd++

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more

Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models

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At its re:Invent 2024 conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced a new family of generative AI, multimodal models called Nova. There’s four text-based models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Micro, Lite, and Pro are available today for AWS customers, while Premiere will launch in Q1 2025, Amazon CEO Andy … Read more

AWS’ new service tackles AI hallucinations

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably. Announced at AWS’ re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, the service, Automated Reasoning checks, validates a model’s responses by cross-referencing customer-supplied info for accuracy. AWS claims in a press … Read more