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Artificial Intelligence Securing Amazon Quick from POC to production: Agents, Flows, and Spaces Amazon Quick proof of concept (POC) projects often succeed with a small pilot team, then stall when security and compliance teams review the production plan. A permission model that wo

Starman Optical, a privately held firm that makes optical transceivers in the U.S. for use in AI data centers, would get a 90% stake in GoPro under the deal announced on Tuesday, with existing shareholders of the camera company owning the rest. The companies said in a joint state

Dive Brief: - Kohl’s has named former Walmart fashion executive Ryan Waymire as chief merchant. He has also had merchandising roles at Wayfair, FabFitFun, Amazon and Target. - Waymire starts Sept. 28, reporting to CEO Michael Bender. He replaces Nick Jones, who joined as chief me

John Deere is testing a new “JD” AI assistant that it says can help farmers make more money, with answers about best practices and historical trends that are based on their own data. It uses their “field, machine and operational data” to answer questions on topics like equipment

Gurugram-based insurance distribution platforms InsuranceDekho and RenewBuy have completed their merger, creating a combined entity that will operate under the InsuranceDekho brand. InsuranceDekho founder and CEO Ankit Agrawal will lead the merged company, while the founders of b

Yields pared gains after the Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing PMI fell to a still-elevated 54.6 last month from 55.6 in July, which was the highest reading since May 2022. Economists polled by Reuters had projected it would dip to 55.2. Separately, the Labor

Introducing TabFM in BigQuery: Predictive analytics reimagined Vaibhav Sethi Group Product Manager Xi Cheng Engineering Manager Historically, enterprise predictive analytics tasks such as predicting churn, purchase intent, or fraud scoring have meant building custom models using

How Blackline simplifies perimeter policy intelligence with VPC Service Controls Pratik Bhangale Product Manager, Google Cloud Jimmy Huang Staff Cloud Engineer, BlackLine Establishing network-level perimeters with VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) is a critical step that can help you

Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating “professional-grade” AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to

After years of financial struggles, action camera pioneer GoPro is being acquired for $285 million. A company called Starman Optical has agreed to merge with GoPro. The deal involves Starman Optical paying GoPro shareholders $1.14 per share and leaving those shareholders with abo

WHY HAVE YIELDS BEEN RISING? Investors point to several forces behind the move, which has sent the 30-year yield to its highest mark in nearly two decades: mounting government borrowing that markets must absorb, resilient economic growth, inflation risks from Middle East energy d

Amazon continues to experiment with how AI can be used to improve the shopping experience, resulting in Tuesday’s launch of a new feature within its Alexa for Shopping AI assistant called “Update Me When.” This latest addition can send consumers personalized notifications when so

Artificial Intelligence How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments An agentic system can research, reason, and orchestrate multi-step workflows, but the moment it hits a paywall, it stops. It has no wallet, no card, and no spending limit. t54 solved that p

It's still possible to find used cars for under $20,000 — but buyers may have to make bigger trade-offs than they did in the past. About 32% of all used-car sales in the second quarter of 2026 were for vehicles under $20,000, down sharply from 55.2% for the same quarter in 2019,

Artificial Intelligence How ZS democratized secure ad-hoc analytics with Amazon SageMaker This blog post is co-written with Kiran Dhamane, Abhishek I S, and Mayur Ghodekar from ZS Associates Organizations in regulated industries face a persistent tension: give developers the agil

As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plug-ins, MCP servers, and add-ons that let them interact with the internet. AI security s

Artificial Intelligence How Boomi Scribe streamlines documentation using AWS Boomi Scribe alleviates documentation, one of the most persistent sources of technical debt for enterprise development teams. Enterprise developers often struggle to create and maintain documentation, es

A recent study by the analyst firm Omdia, commissioned by Object First, reveals that enterprise ransomware recovery rates are declining despite growing awareness of modern data protection strategies. According to the research, 83 percent of surveyed organizations experienced a su

The extent of AI excitement among China’s public may be overstated, analysts argued. A viral craze this year saw grandmothers installing the agentic AI tool OpenClaw, part of the so-called “raising lobsters” frenzy that was widely presented as evidence of rabid AI enthusiasm in C

How AI Is Changing Construction from Blueprint to Build AI is reshaping the construction lifecycle. At Ai4 2026, AEC leaders shared how firms are applying AI across design, logistics, safety, and operations, while tackling data standards, culture change, and scaling. AI is moving

VAST Data and CrowdStrike are turning the AI security partnership they announced at VAST Forward in February into a shipping product, detailing a multi-layered integration that embeds enterprise-grade cybersecurity directly into AI storage infrastructure, data pipelines, and prod

Indian benchmark indices remained under pressure throughout the session but managed to hold above the crucial 24,000 mark at close. Elevated crude oil prices and escalating geopolitical tensions continued to weigh on investor sentiment, while the weekly Nifty expiry led to height

Before his expected visit to the US to meet President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is embarking on a whirlwind diplomatic tour that one expert said is designed to show “China has friends and options around the world at precisely the moment Washington is alienating many

We Are Not Machines by Sarah O’Connor. Financial Times reporter O’Connor explores how mechanization and AI have transformed the workforce. The book places workers at the center of each story, highlighting the immediate impacts of the robot era on those whose lives have changed dr

Marking its first acquisition, Dollar Shave Club is adding body care brand Truly Beauty to its portfolio. Financial terms for the transaction were not disclosed in a Tuesday press release, and the two brand identities will remain distinct from one another. The acquisition further

Uzbekistan confirmed its purchase of Chinese J-10CE jets, becoming the second country after Pakistan to add the fighter to its arsenal, as Beijing makes inroads into high-end defense. Bangladesh is also mulling a deal to acquire the J-10CE, which is cheaper than the US F-16 and F

A group of 21 financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi and Deutsche Bank plan to create a company this year to issue a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar in the first half of 2027, they said on Tuesday.The group, which was first announced in October

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Meeting AI Demand: Alternate Power, Design, and Site Strategy AI’s explosive growth is forcing a fundamental reimagining of data center infrastructure. As artificial intelligence accelerates the transfor

Microsoft’s efforts to fix what is now a multi-day outage affecting customers’ access to Outlook email and other Microsoft 365 services are entering day two. The company made significant progress in addressing the problem on Monday, after an issue impacting its Exchange Online se

AI agents that perform tasks on your behalf to help solve your daily problems are all the rage in Silicon Valley. But the startup Fambot sees a future for agents out in the real world, too, where they’re used by families who need help keeping up with the mental load of children’s

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general have sued Amazon, alleging the e-commerce company secretly inflated the price of its search advertising auctions for over seven years, according to a press release from the consumer protection agency. Amazon executives p

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 1, 2026 — What if the best place to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a classroom or a conference room but a museum on a Friday night or a community library on a Saturday afternoon? That is the idea behind Argonne’s AI Roadshow, a tr

MLCommons published the MLPerf Storage v3.0 results today, and the round changes not only what the benchmark is but also who leads it. For the first time, the only audited AI storage benchmark covers the full pipeline: training throughput, checkpointing, and two new inference wor

Hospitality brand Zostel has launched Zo Selections, a premium hospitality vertical under its parent company Zo World, with its first property opening in Jaipur. The property offers private rooms, jacuzzi suites, common spaces and workstations. Founded in 2013, Zostel has grown f

The gates to Colombia’s fossil fuel industry may be reopening, but security and fiscal issues remain. President Abelardo de la Espriella pledged to revoke a ban on new exploration licenses for oil and gas projects implemented under his predecessor Gustavo Petro, who had sought to

Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. The ablative heat shield, designed to char upon reentry while keeping the crew safe, had exper

Watch Live at 5:30 p.m. ET on September 15 The High-Stakes Future of Prediction Markets Prediction markets have moved from a novelty to a mainstream consumer product. Average daily volume across US prediction markets reached nearly $2 billion in July, settling everything from Fed

Nvidia pours $3.5 billion into MediaTek — company will adopt NVLink Fusion for its custom AI accelerators Nvidia to get a piece of custom AI infrastructure with new MediaTek pact. Nvidia and MediaTek this week announced a major expansion of their partnership under which Nvidia is

August turned out to be yet another eventful month for the Indian startup ecosystem. The month marked multiple mega rounds, including River Mobility’s $120 Mn infusion and Navi’s $100 Mn maiden institutional fundraise. AstroTalk also joined the unicorn club, becoming India's 133r

Flow, the residential real estate venture from WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, is opening an office in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The new office will oversee expansion in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the US, including its first real estate acquisitions in the Emir