One Layer Is Enough: Adapting Pretrained Visual Encoders for Image Generation

Visual generative models (e.g., diffusion models) typically operate in compressed latent spaces to balance training efficiency and sample quality. In parallel, there has been growing interest in leveraging high-quality pre-trained visual representations—either by aligning them inside VAEs or directly within the generative model. However, adapting such representations remains challenging due to fundamental mismatches between understanding-oriented …

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Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Document processing in real estate is complex and highly manual, impacting critical business decisions at scale, making it ripe for automation. Built Technologies, a real estate finance software provider, processes over $500B in real estate projects. The company deployed an AI-powered document processing engine on Amazon Bedrock and the AWS Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Accelerator. …

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises’ concerns about networking infrastructure to support the rise of agentic AI in their organizations. The survey was sponsored by Google Cloud. Enterprises are moving quickly on AI pilots, but the move from pilot …

Proactive Agent Research Environment: Simulating Active Users to Evaluate Proactive Assistants

Proactive agents that anticipate user needs and autonomously execute tasks hold great promise as digital assistants, yet the lack of realistic user simulation frameworks hinders their development. Existing approaches model apps as flat tool-calling APIs, failing to capture the stateful and sequential nature of user interaction in digital environments and making realistic user simulation infeasible. …

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Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock

Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their product launches on Hacker News. Stack Overflow questions spike. A GitHub repo crosses 2,400 stars. Each signal alone is noise, but correlated across sources, they reveal a prospect ready to buy. Multi-agent systems built with …

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Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were focused on building the global infrastructure, security frameworks, and data platforms that power the world’s largest organizations. We’ve always believed that technology is only as good as its reliability, security, …

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Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

By Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez-Silva & Nathan FisherA deep dive into the engineering challenges of building a real-time service dependency map at Netflix scale: from streaming architectures and distributed aggregation pipelines to time-travel queries and the methodology that made it work. Introduction In our first post, we introduced the problem: engineers at …

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Build with the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet, on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Organizations scaling autonomous agents and AI-powered products need frontier intelligence that performs reliably across hundreds of steps, from coding agents shipping production code to cyber security research probing novel attack surfaces to genomics workflows analyzing entire gene sequences end-to-end. …

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Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, because organizations are reluctant to slow down development and compromise stability by demanding privileged Daemonsets, kernel-level access, and manual pod-spec edits. To break this deadlock, today we are open-sourcing k8s-aibom. This lightweight, unprivileged Kubernetes …

Behavioral Privacy Leakage in Agentic Negotiation: Formalizing and Mitigating Inference Attacks via Randomized Policies

This paper was accepted at the AI4TCI (Workshop on AI for Secure and Trustworthy Critical Infrastructure Systems) Workshop at the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2026. Autonomous negotiation agents are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as insurance and procurement. While cryptographic techniques protect explicitly disclosed constraint values, they fail to address …