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LaunchAI Models15 sources

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80%, Terra 20%, adds Sol Fast mode

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% to $0.20/M input and $1.20/M output tokens, and Terra 20% to $2/$12. GPT-5.6 Sol gains Fast mode in the API: up to 2.5x speed at 2x price with unchanged intelligence. The company credits GPT-5.6 Sol's efficiency for enabling the cuts.

AnalysisBusiness1 source

Yahoo enhances search retargeting with Amazon Bedrock

Yahoo uses Amazon Bedrock to connect user search intent with relevant ad experiences across channels, improving retargeting efficiency by leveraging user search activity and behaviors.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3 model with Together AI partnership

Kimi K3 is now available on Perplexity and Nebius, achieving a 1450 Elo score on 3D Design benchmarks. The model ranks 4th on the Agent Arena leaderboard and features optimized inference via a custom DFlash speculator developed with Modal.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 offers performance near Fable 5 at half the price, featuring a 1M token context window. It is now available on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and as the default Opus model in Claude Code v2.1.219.

AnalysisBusiness1 source

Jefferies builds AI trade assistant on AWS

Jefferies developed a trade assistant using Amazon Bedrock to provide real-time client behavior, trade pattern, and market trend insights. The AI tool helps traders make split-second decisions from vast data without needing coding skills.

LaunchDevelopers1 source

Amazon Bedrock adds agentic retrieval for managed knowledge base

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports agentic retrieval to handle multi-part, comparative, and exploratory queries across documents like PDFs and slides. Uses agentic reasoning to decompose complex questions and retrieve relevant context.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

monday.com deploys AI Teammates on Amazon Bedrock

monday.com reports that 90% of its builders use AI coding tools monthly, nearly double from a year ago, and per-engineer PR throughput increased by over 50%. The company runs AI Teammates agents on Amazon Bedrock.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

Build agent workflows with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo

Guide walks through building agent workflows for supply chain disruption analysis using Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit. The solution automates checking purchase orders, inventory, customer commitments, and contract rules.

LaunchBusiness1 source

Amazon Quick launches as agentic AI teammate for sales

Amazon Quick targets the 60% of sales rep time lost to low-value tasks like CRM updates and prospect research. The agentic AI teammate automates email drafting, context-switching, and research to free up selling time.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

Smartsheet built a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on AWS using Amazon Bedrock and AWS Fargate to give AI agents structured access to its work management platform. The architecture enables agents to query project data and trigger actions via natural language.

LaunchAI Models1 source

xAI's Grok 4.3 launches on Amazon Bedrock

Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The model reasons reliably over long inputs, helping teams build agents and AI workflows.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

Build a restaurant AI phone host with Bedrock AgentCore and Nova 2 Sonic

Restaurants miss an average of 150 phone calls per location per month; about 60% are customers trying to place orders or book tables. This tutorial shows how to build a telephony AI host using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for orchestration and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for speech, with AWS services like Lambda and DynamoDB for scalability.

LaunchBusiness1 source

Built Technologies launches AI document intelligence on AWS

Built Technologies, processing over $500B in real estate projects, deployed an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS. The system uses Amazon Bedrock to automate document processing and power agents across real estate finance.

How-ToBusiness2 sources

Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock

Strands Agents uses multi-agent AI to correlate B2B prospect signals from Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and GitHub, turning scattered activity into actionable intent. The solution runs on Amazon Bedrock, stitching together individual signals that would otherwise be noise.

How-ToDevelopers2 sources

Amazon Nova Act used for agentic QA and UX testing

Two AWS blog posts show using Amazon Nova Act with Bedrock and other services to automate QA test execution and user flow analysis. They cover building agentic QA pipelines that gate deployments in CI/CD and a system for UX analysis using Nova Act and Bedrock, with DynamoDB and Lambda for scalability.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna model family

GPT-5.6 Sol is half the price and twice as token efficient as Fable for many tasks. The models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock and Perplexity's Agent API. GPT-5.6 Sol also set a new cybersecurity SOTA on 'The Last Ones' cyber range.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Bluesight builds agentic AI solution with Amazon Bedrock

The healthcare compliance solution uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to manage 340B Drug Pricing Program data. The post details the architecture including AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudWatch.

How-ToAI Agents1 source

KTern.AI builds AI agents for SAP on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

KTern.AI used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build AI agents that automate SAP transformation workflows. The agents handle reverse engineering, fit-to-standard analysis, and code analysis. This enables enterprise-scale SAP migration with autonomous orchestration.

AnalysisDevelopers1 source

AWS blog discusses MCP tool design best practices

Teams often expose APIs as-is, but AWS recommends designing MCP tools with agentic systems in mind. Key considerations include parameter names, error messages, and tool descriptions to improve agent performance.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Building an ecommerce MCP server with Bedrock and Mistral AI

The guide demonstrates integrating Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Mistral AI Studio to build a production-ready ecommerce MCP server. It reduces custom API code and security risks for faster AI customer experience deployment.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF

This guide demonstrates how to secure Amazon Bedrock AgentCore API endpoints using AWS WAF. It covers enforcing web application firewall policies, rate limiting, and protection against common web threats. The integration uses Elastic Load Balancing and can be deployed in production.

How-ToDevelopers1 source

Build an AI-powered AWS support companion with Bedrock AgentCore

The blog post provides a step-by-step guide to building an AI-powered support assistant using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, integrating CloudWatch monitoring, documentation search, and automated support case filing. It includes code snippets and architectural guidance for AWS engineers.

LaunchCybersecurity3 sources

Anthropic brings Claude Code and Cowork to government

Claude Code scanned 466 million lines of code in 20 hours for the Government of Alberta, finding vulnerabilities across 1,280 applications. The effort used Opus and Sonnet models, with Minister Nate Glubish calling it 'what responsible government looks like in the AI era.'

AnalysisAI Models1 source

Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova

AWS introduces a selective unlearning method for Amazon Nova models, allowing removal of specific unwanted concepts (e.g., mature language or cybersecurity threats) while preserving model performance. The technique targets the tension between content moderation and legitimate business uses like summarizing scripts or simulating real-world attacks.

LaunchAI Models1 source

MiniMax models now available on Amazon Bedrock

AWS announces MiniMax open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock for production workloads. The integration supports agentic coding assistants and long-context document analysis.

How-ToVisual AI1 source

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

AWS introduces a new feature using Amazon Nova to automatically detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in images. The guide covers setup, configuration, and best practices for integration.

AnalysisCybersecurity7 sources

Phantom squatting uses AI-hallucinated domains for phishing

Unit 42 found LLMs hallucinated 250,000 unregistered domains among 2.1 million links. Attackers register these domains to host phishing pages, evading filters due to zero reputation. Different models often hallucinate the same fake domains, making targeting predictable.