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How AI Helps Mid-Size Banking Compete | Agentic AI for Banking Compliance & Marketing (Part 1)

AI is transforming how mid-size banks and credit unions operate, communicate, and compete — and the shift is happening fast. As consumers become more selective and digital expectations rise, marketing teams are feeling the pressure to do more with less: faster campaigns, tighter compliance, and more personalization across every channel. This two-part series explores how …

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Accelerate generative AI innovation in Canada with Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference

Generative AI has created unprecedented opportunities for Canadian organizations to transform their operations and customer experiences. We are excited to announce that customers in Canada can now access advanced foundation models including Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock through cross-Region inference (CRIS). This post explores how Canadian organizations can use …

Announcing Claude Opus 4.5 on Vertex AI

Today, we’re excited to announce that Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is generally available on Vertex AI. As Anthropic’s most advanced model to date, it excels in coding, agents, vision, computer use and office tasks — at one-third the cost of its predecessor, Opus 4.1. We remain committed to providing Vertex AI customers with …

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is here: Cheaper AI, infinite chats, and coding skills that beat humans

Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance on software engineering tasks — a strategic move that intensifies the AI startup’s competition with deep-pocketed rivals OpenAI and Google. The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, scored higher on Anthropic’s most challenging internal engineering assessment …

AI tool helps visually impaired users ‘feel’ where objects are in real time

Over the last few years, systems and applications that help visually impaired people navigate their environment have undergone rapid development, but still have room to grow, according to a team of researchers at Penn State. The team recently combined recommendations from the visually impaired community and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a new tool that …

A method to turn a video into a 360° 3D VR panorama video

I started working on this with the goal of eventually producing an FMV VR video game. At first, I thought that training a WAN panorama LoRA would be the easy solution, but the very high resolution required for VR means it cannot be the ultimate answer. Also, almost all new models are designed for perspective …