How growing UK midsize businesses are building in the AI era

The UK’s 5-million-plus small and midsize businesses and enterprises (SMBs) are the backbone of our economy. Today, we’re seeing these critical businesses begin to put AI to work, to operate more efficiently, move faster, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for their customers.  This shift is driven by tangible day-to-day results. According to recent research from …

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Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference now supports inline request payloads

Today, we’re announcing inline payload support for Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference. Customers can now send inference payloads directly in the request body of the InvokeEndpointAsync API, removing the need to upload input data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) before each invocation. For payloads up to 128,000 bytes, this removes an entire network …

From AI potential to agentic reality: Driving the UK’s next chapter

The United Kingdom, and London in particular, continues to be one of the great hubs for AI development in Europe and the world. We’re home to Google DeepMind, of course, as well as significant AI unicorns — and Google Cloud customers — like Ineffable Intelligence, which is today announcing an important partnership with us.  A …

Upsampling method sharpens AI vision with up to 16 times less GPU memory

From facial recognition on smartphones to humanoid robots, computer vision technology, which serves as the eyes of artificial intelligence (AI), is widely used in daily life. A joint research team from KAIST and international institutions has developed a technology that allows AI to see the world more clearly with minimal memory, increasing GPU (Graphics Processing …

Potentially the most insane LORA you’ll see today – Archer (8 characters + style) Ideogram LORA

Hi, I’m Dever and I like training LORAs, you can download this one from Huggingface (you can find other style LORAs for Klein and ZIT in my HF profile). I believe this might be the first Ideogram 8 characters in one + style lora on HuggingFace and a good proof of concept that this is …

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Safeguard your agentic AI applications with the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails InvokeGuardrailChecks API

Today, we’re announcing a new API with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. With this API, you can apply individual safeguards, also referred to as safety checks, at any point in your agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. The new InvokeGuardrailChecks API gives you the flexibility to invoke supported safeguards at any turn in the agentic loop …

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How Siemens “slices the elephant,” advancing agentic workflows for industrial software development

For technology companies like Siemens, software is the nervous system of factories, energy grids, and transportation networks worldwide. As a global leader in industrial AI, industrial software, and industrial automation, Siemens brings decades of domain expertise across factory and process automation, energy infrastructure, and intelligent transportation — expertise that no off-the-shelf AI solution can replicate. …