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 …

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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. …

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Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 is a family of open-weight models designed with a focus on intelligence-per-parameter across a broad range of deployment scenarios. The family includes three instruction-tuned variants: Gemma 4 31B, …

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while building AI Threat Defense. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …

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Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI

Rocket Close is a Detroit-based title agency and appraisal management company within Rocket Companies that provides title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services. As demand for mortgages and loans grew, title operations became a bottleneck in the homebuying process. Time-intensive, state-specific title examinations, combined with manual research and fragmented systems, slowed throughput and made it …

Introducing the Open Knowledge Format

As foundation models continue to improve, the lack of relevant context often limits what they can do, especially as they are used to build agentic systems. While these models can help you write code, summarize documents, or analyze a dataset, they still need the right information to produce accurate and actionable results.  That’s why today, …

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Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically

Many companies have large volumes of paper or electronic documents that contain untapped business intelligence. With the advancement of generative AI, various large language models can be used to accurately extract relevant data from these documents. This post demonstrates an intelligent document processing pipeline that consists of both on-demand inference and batch inference options on …