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How Amazon Finance streamlines regulatory inquiries by using generative AI on AWS

Amazon’s Finance Technology (FinTech) teams build and operate systems for Amazon teams to manage regulatory inquiries in compliance with different jurisdictions. These teams process regulatory inquiries from authorities, each presenting different requirements, document formats, and complexity levels. Processing these regulatory inquiries involves reviewing documentation, extracting relevant information, retrieving supporting data from multiple systems within Amazon’s …

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Beyond source code: The files AI coding agents trust — and attackers exploit

As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them.  Autonomous AI agents operate across integrated development environments (IDEs), editors, terminals, and extension runtimes, and they often have access to local files, command execution, and external services. As a result, …

Light-tunable polarization sensor could sharpen self-driving cars and medical scans

A technology that surpasses the limitations of existing sensors, which fail to distinguish between water and asphalt on dark roads, has emerged to enhance the accuracy of autonomous driving and medical diagnostics. A research team has developed a next-generation polarization sensor that can read the direction of light and change its own response.

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Building web search-enabled agents with Strands and Exa

This post is co written by Ishan Goswami and Nitya Sridhar from Exa. If you are building web search-enabled AI agents for research, fact-checking, or competitive intelligence, access to current and reliable information is critical. Most general-purpose search APIs are not designed for agent workflows. They return HTML-heavy pages and short snippets optimized for human …

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Cloud Storage Rapid: Turbocharged object storage for AI and analytics

At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of Rapid Bucket (formerly Rapid Storage), a high-performance zonal object storage offering, and Rapid Cache (formerly Anywhere Cache), which accelerates reads on-demand and colocates …