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Enterprises often struggle to onboard new team members at scale. Human resources (HR) teams spend time on manual tasks that delay productivity, such as processing documents to answering repeated questions about benefits and policies. For organizations with many new hires, these steps make it harder to keep onboarding consistent and compliant. Organizations lose substantial amounts …

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Agentic tool calling is what makes AI agents useful in production. It’s how they query databases, trigger workflows, retrieve real-time data, and act on a user’s behalf. But base models frequently hallucinate tools, pass bad parameters, and attempt actions when they should ask for clarification. These failures erode trust and block production deployment. You can …

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Agentic generative AI assistants represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, featuring dynamic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) that engage in open-ended dialogue and tackle complex tasks. Unlike basic chatbots, these implementations possess broad intelligence, maintaining multi-step conversations while adapting to user needs and executing necessary backend tasks. These systems retrieve business-specific data …

Building Intelligent Search with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch for hybrid RAG solutions Read More »

This post is co-written with Arad Ben Haim and Hannah Danan Moise from Windward. Windward is a leading Maritime AI company, delivering mission-grade, multi-source intelligence for maritime-based operations. By fusing Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, remote sensing signals, proprietary AI models, and generative AI, Windward provides a 360° view of global maritime activity so defense …

From isolated alerts to contextual intelligence: Agentic maritime anomaly analysis with generative AI Read More »

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway provides a centralized layer for managing how AI agents connect to tools and MCP servers across your organization. It consolidates authentication, observability, and policy enforcement into a single endpoint, removing the need to configure and secure each MCP server connection individually. In this post, we walk through how to configure AgentCore …

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Evaluating single-turn agent interactions follows a pattern that most teams understand well. You provide an input, collect the output, and judge the result. Frameworks like Strands Evaluation SDK make this process systematic through evaluators that assess helpfulness, faithfulness, and tool usage. In a previous blog post, we covered how to build comprehensive evaluation suites for …

Simulate realistic users to evaluate multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals Read More »

Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency. ​ 

New AI capabilities are coming to Google Vids, powered by Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1, like high-quality video generation at no cost and more. ​ 

This post is cowritten with Altay Sansal and Alejandro Valenciano from TGS. TGS, a geoscience data provider for the energy sector, supports companies’ exploration and production workflows with advanced seismic foundation models (SFMs). These models analyze complex 3D seismic data to identify geological structures vital for energy exploration. To help enhance their next-generation models as …

Scaling seismic foundation models on AWS: Distributed training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and expanding context windows Read More »

AI agents that can browse the web open powerful possibilities—from research automation to real-time data gathering. However, giving an AI agent unrestricted internet access raises security and compliance concerns. What if the agent accesses unauthorized websites? What if sensitive data is exfiltrated to external domains? Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides managed tools that enable AI agents …

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