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How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how Yahoo implemented Amazon Bedrock to enhance their Search Retargeting (SRT) capabilities in the Yahoo DSP ad tech suite. SRT is a core audience targeting solution that helps advertisers reach users based on their historical search behavior, bridging search intent with display, video, and native advertising. Beyond targeting keywords entered on Yahoo Search, SRT uses AI to identify and engage users who demonstrate intent through search activity both on Yahoo and across integrated partner systems.

Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick

Learn how to build an inference meta-monitoring system for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints using Amazon Quick. This governance layer sits above production ML inference pipelines to continuously track prediction and data quality, detect drift, integrate delayed ground truth, and surface automated performance dashboards.

Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, along with explicit prompt caching that gives you precise control over which parts of your prompt are cached and reused. Learn how to get started, set up explicit caching, and migrate existing GPT workloads to reduce inference cost.

Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%

In today's agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take action across a wide range of tasks. For platform engineering teams designing these environments, the simplest approach is often to deploy an agent on to an open-source framework like OpenClaw and Hermes running on a virtual machine (VM). But as those workloads move into production and scale to support additional users or use cases, teams quickly hit a critical challenge: AI agents tend to operate in bursts; for a while they actively pro

Migrate your prompts to new models and optimize them on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes your prompts for up to 5 models at once and compares original versus optimized performance across quality, latency, and cost. Migrate to a new model or improve your current one in minutes instead of weeks.

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

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Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2

Gemini Robotics ER 2 is a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

This post explains how Private Key JWT client authentication works in AgentCore Identity and reviews the supported grant flows. We then walk through creating an AWS KMS signing key, registering its public key with your identity provider, configuring a credential provider on the AWS Management Console, and reviewing example AWS CloudTrail events that record your agent's access.

We're launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

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What's new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we've seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development, we've also shared 13 demos that can walk you through the versatility and power of Agent Platform, and 20 questions you can ask your teams about building a solid agentic foundation. Meanwhile at Google Cloud, our teams have been hard at work to make more features available and continue delivering on our promise to give you better ways to simply and securely scale your agents. That's why today, we are announcing some of our most popular ca

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent

Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we'll teach you how to build real-world, production-ready agents starting from step 1. If you haven't already, tune into our livestream to guide you through the entire agentic lifecycle and read more in our announcement blog. Most AI projects get stuck in prototype mode. Moving from a local script to a secure production agent usually requires jumping between half a dozen tools, consoles, IAM dashboards, and deployment platforms. Every context switch adds friction, and momentum fades away. It doesn't

The best mind mapping software in 2026

Mind mapping is a creative way to brainstorm and find connections between different ideas. Done right, it's a great way to come up with new ideas and solutions to tricky problems, outline an article or presentation, and generally just get your thoughts in order. While it can be done as a group, it's often a solo practice. I do most of my mind mapping digitally-and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched. (It's a weird hy

Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous, cross-system business intelligence through configuration rather than custom code. Using pre-built MCP server connectors, fine-grained access control, and persistent memory, enterprises can query multiple data sources with natural language while enforcing role-based boundaries automatically.

Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick

Learn how to build a no-code customer retention pipeline in Amazon Quick that detects at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, scores them by retention priority with a custom MCP Action, and generates personalized retention letters, reducing response time from days to minutes.

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Gemini for macOS adds new natural language capabilities

A look at how the Gemini app for macOS now lets you speak naturally to get clean transcriptions, edits, and summaries just using your voice.

The best webinar software for marketers in 2026

Webinars allow you to share your expertise at scale, helping you connect directly with new customers and deeply engage with existing ones. But there's more to webinars than just the content-you also need to invite and manage attendees, run the online event, facilitate real-time engagement, and measure success. That's where webinar software comes in. The best webinar platforms help you streamline and automate all the logistics related to running a webinar so you can focus on sharing your knowled

RAG vs. Agentic RAG: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and How to Choose

Classic RAG hits a wall on multi-hop and ambiguous queries. Learn how agentic RAG turns retrieval into a control loop, and when the tradeoffs are worth it.

AI Data Pipelines: Architecture, Stages, and Orchestration

Understand AI data pipeline architecture, from ingestion and feature engineering to model training and orchestration. See where n8n fits in the stack.

Dropbox vs. Google Drive: Which is right for you? [2026]

On its own, cloud storage is a commodity. Any provider worth its salt will let you back up your files to the cloud, sync them across devices, and share them with other people. But cloud storage apps like Dropbox and Google Drive now offer far more than just storage: with AI tools, real-time collaboration, and eSignatures all bundled together, each platform is now a destination for getting work done rather than just a place to stash files. As a result, Dropbox and Google Drive are more useful tha

The best productivity apps for Mac in 2026

If you're a Mac user, you have high standards. You invested in a high-quality machine for a reason-and you expect the best software to match. It shouldn't just work on your operating system and respond to familiar keyboard shortcuts-it should feel like a Mac app. It should be that ideal blend of form and function that you've come to expect from the Apple ecosystem. And developers know this-which is why there are so many productivity apps for Mac that are miles better than what you can find for o

What is AI automation? A complete guide

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. Not in a replace-me-with-a-robot kind of way (I like health insurance); more in an I-should-be-focusing-on-more-important-things kind of way. Automation used to be the best way to do that. Then AI came along and made automation smarter. Hence the extremely creative name: AI automation. Here, I'll break down what AI automation is and how to implement it, with real examples from teams already using

AI workflow automation: What it is and how to get started

If your company's idea of "using AI" is keeping ChatGPT open in a browser tab-congrats, you're doing the bare minimum. You're also missing out on the real efficiency gains AI can deliver. Ad hoc prompting is great for one-off requests ("draft this email," "explain this bizarre spreadsheet formula"), but it doesn't scale-and it definitely doesn't count as integrating AI into your workflows. AI workflow automation is what happens when you build AI into repeatable processes instead: tasks like draf

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What happens to a lawyer's business model when AI makes him 5x faster

Most automation stories are about saving time. This one is about what happens after you save it. Damian Guzman runs FTE Legal, a Social Purpose Corporation, in Oakland, California, that represents small businesses and fintechs, often at rates below market and halved again for early-stage clients who can't yet pay full freight. He has about 30 hours of self-imposed billable capacity in a given week, which means every hour spent on admin is an hour he isn't serving a client. Since last summer, he

How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions system and hardened authorization. Learn what changed and how to enable the new version on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with a single UpdateGateway call.

Bringing Conversational Analytics to your entire data ecosystem

Increasing the adoption of generative AI across the enterprise requires you to do more than deploy a generic chatbot with a custom wrapper. Interacting with business-critical databases demands absolute trust, strict governance, and deep grounding in enterprise semantics. Over the last year, Conversational Analytics (CA) in Google Cloud has moved from isolated experiments to scaled, enterprise-wide deployments. BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API are now generally available, adding to the general availability of Conversational Analytics in Looker last year. Bu

Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore

Learn how to architect and deploy a production-ready multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for workflow orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a market surveillance example with state-driven orchestration, checkpoint-based recovery, and AgentCore memory and observability.

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How Gemini Flash agents are helping a Michigan dairy farmer

See how Paul Windemuller, a Michigan dairy farmer, is changing the way he works by using AI agents built with Gemini 3.6 Flash.

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Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

We're announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID. The retailer solved both problems and paved the way for a massive cloud expansion by implementing Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation. This direct approach allowed developers to access cloud resources securely using their existing Microsoft credentials without a separate identity store, giving technical leadership confidence that ac

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search

These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning tasks.

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find the perf...

How to build a secure automated system on Zapier

At Zapier, we're big believers in automation. That's a given. But our platform goes beyond automating simple "if this, then that" work. An automated workflow-what we call a Zap-is the perfect starting point to get more work done. But it's just one piece of a larger picture. The real goal is a complete system: one place to capture your data, store it, and act on it, with security, access controls, and permissions built in at the platform level. You can create that entire system on Zapier. And if

Zapier vs. Celigo: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]

NetSuite organizes monthly events for its users around the world, from Dubai to Sydney, and in each and every city you'll find a similar sight: people in Celigo shirts handing out swag. Officially, Celigo is an enterprise iPaaS solution with lots of use cases. But practically speaking, it's best known as the go-to platform for NetSuite integrations. If you're processing thousands of eCommerce orders daily through NetSuite, Celigo should probably be a part of the solution. But most enterprises al

Zapier vs. UiPath: Which is best? [2026]

Some of the world's most critical infrastructure runs on technology that predates the internet. Updating it is risky and complex, so banking systems, government agencies, and insurance firms frequently apply the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule to the decades-old technology that powers their core systems. UiPath rose to prominence by automating legacy systems like these with its robotic process automation (RPA) platform, which lets IT teams design robots that complete actions at the user i

What are agent skills? How to take your AI agent from capable to useful

My dog knows a lot of tricks, and she's willing to show them off to you if (and only if) you offer a high-value treat. You don't have to teach her to lie down or shake paws every time you give the command; she's already learned what's expected from her. Agent skills work the same way-except your AI agent's compliance is a lot less dependent on its mood that day or whether you have a blueberry-flavored Greenie to tempt it with. Agent skills are like teaching your AI a new trick, so they do specif

What is product lifecycle management (PLM)?

I make a mean homemade pretzel, but it took a while to get there. In my early days, I watched a few quick videos and just decided to wing it, not knowing how to mix the dough, when and how long to let it rest, and even forgetting to add baking soda to the boiling water (a mortal sin in the pretzel world). But then I got a cookbook that completely changed my life, and standardized my processes to help me make golden, twisted bliss. Wayward businesses have the same problem as my early pretzel year

Hootsuite vs. Buffer: Which social media management tool is best? [2026]

Whether you're an occasional poster or a social media marketer, you need social media management apps to automate posts, monitor performance, and run multiple social media accounts without too much chaos. There are plenty of options to choose from, but the two names you'll see popping up most often in this category are Buffer and Hootsuite. They're both synonymous with social media management, but they differ quite a bit in their features and how they approach the task at hand. I spent time test

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What is omnichannel customer experience?

Last week, I had to return some workout clothes to a company that I've decided to redact, as I don't want to get sued. I started on the app but gave up halfway through as I was being led on a virtual goose chase. I then called the support line and had to explain the whole thing again to a very nice person who had no idea I'd ever opened the app. To add insult to injury, I got an email a few hours later asking me to rate the app experience. Three touchpoints, minimal memory, and one frazzled (to

Zapier vs. Tray comparison: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]

It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making-thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with enterprise software, it's tempting to assume you have to choose between power and ease of use. But that's not always true. The best automation platforms deliver both, scaling to meet complex enterprise needs while remaining intuitive enough for anyone to start building right away. You can use either Zap

The 9 best applicant tracking systems in 2026

When you open the floodgates that are a new job posting, you have to be ready for the wave of candidates that can follow. It's not easy to sort through hundreds or thousands of applicants to find those best fit for the job-which is why the agency I work for uses an applicant tracking system (ATS) to manage the best possible talent pipeline. To help you pick the best solution for your organization, I researched several dozen ATS platforms, testing them whenever I could and speaking to the folks w

Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS

Traditional RAG hits a ceiling on analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents. This post shows how to use task-aware knowledge compression (TAKC) on AWS to pre-compress entire knowledge bases into task-specific representations, cache them at multiple fidelity tiers, and route each query to the right tier, with an open-source implementation you can deploy.

Deepgram enhances Amazon SageMaker AI support with AWS IAM Temporary Delegation

In this post, we cover why Deepgram built on IAM temporary delegation, how the integration works end-to-end, and what it unlocks for customers running Deepgram speech models on SageMaker AI. With this integration, Deepgram has reduced the time for initial investigation on a SageMaker AI support ticket from days to minutes.

How Guardoc transforms medical document processing with Amazon Nova models

In this post, we explore how Guardoc Health uses the Amazon Nova family of models, available through Amazon Bedrock, to transform clinical documentation in long-term care.

Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and more)

Zapier now lets business teams plug a wide menu of AI models into their automated workflows, spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and specialty providers like Mistral and DeepSeek. To help users pick the right one, Zapier ranks each model with AutomationBench, its own test of how well models complete multi-step business tasks rather than one-off prompts. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.0 leads the overall leaderboard, with Claude Opus 4.8 and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash close behind.

Prevent lock-in with AI model flexibility on Zapier

Every AI provider comes with models of varying strengths. I'm a Claude stan because it just gets my writing style, but I'll often reach for Sonnet over the higher-tier models because its results are more consistent for me. And for some tasks, Claude's lineup doesn't cut it at all-when I need to process data at scale, for example, I might reach for Gemini. When I need a versatile generalist for classification or routing, GPT might be my pick. Other people across my team and at Zapier have altoget

The 6 best texting apps in 2026

Let's make one thing clear: unfortunately, there's no one best texting app. Unless you absolutely require one or two specific features or are a real stickler for security, the best text message app will be the one that the people you want to text also use. Depending on where you are in the world, that can be iMessage, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, LINE, WeChat, or even SMS. If you're looking for some magic WhatsApp alternatives that are a million times better, you're out of luck. But if, for whatev

What is Google Gemini?

Google has been in its "Gemini era" for a couple years now, and while the confusing rebrandings have slowed, everything else continues to improve at a rapid pace. Gemini is the name Google gave to its current generation family of multimodal AI models, but in typical Google fashion, it also applies to basically everything else that's related to AI. It can get a touch confusing since, by my reckoning, Google has: Google Gemini, a family of multimodal AI models. The latest is the 3.6 series, thoug

Zapier vs. MuleSoft comparison: Which is best for your enterprise? [2026]

In The Office, bumbling boss Michael Scott famously tries to declare bankruptcy by yelling, "I declare bankruptcy!" Some enterprises take a similar approach to getting people to use AI-"I declare that AI is an organizational priority!"-while leaving all the details for later. But as fun as the move-fast-and-break-things approach is, the inevitable result is agent sprawl, shadow AI, and credentials scattered across a dozen different tools. Zapier is built with these challenges in mind. It offers

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Reimagining Independence: How Meta's AI Models Are Helping the University of Pittsburgh Transform Assistive Robotics

Cognizant and Anthropic expand their partnership to bring Claude to enterprise clients

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic's most capable Opus model

This post covers Opus 5's improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. See the documentation for Claude Platform on AWS.

AI Maturity - Bridging the Orchestration Chasm

The AI maturity framework in Section 2 may suggest a smooth, linear progression. The reality is different. Organizations do not advance evenly through these levels. There is a specific transition point where most enterprises stall, and understanding why is how anyone can reliably scale AI today. The hardest leap is

AI Agent Governance: Securing Autonomous Agents in Production

Discover enterprise AI agent governance. Inventory agents, enforce least-privilege access, and add runtime guardrails for security at the workflow level.

Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS

Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and PyTorch. A multi-tower neural network with learned attention delivers accurate, per-customer recommendations while providing the explainability that banking regulators require.

AI Audit Trail: Tracing Data Usage in Production Workflows

Learn how to implement an AI audit trail for production workflows. Discover how execution records and data usage tracking ensures governance.

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Jul 23, 2026

Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore

Together, Motorway and AWS built an end-to-end evaluation pipeline that reduced incorrect results from 1 in 8 queries to 1 in 50 and cut issue detection time from few hours to few minutes. The pipeline combines the Strands Agents SDK with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed service for deploying and operating AI agents at scale. In this post, you will learn how to build this pipeline for your own agents.

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Building trade assistant: How Jefferies optimized front office trading operations with AI

In this post, we explore how Jefferies overcame these challenges with a solution built on Strands Agents, an agent harness SDK for building AI agents that can reason, plan, and act by orchestrating calls to foundation models (FMs) and external tools. The solution uses large language models (LLMs), Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. It also uses Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that helps AI agents securely connect to diverse data sources and tools through a unified interface. We cover the solution overview, the rationale for selecting the underlying technology st

Building multi-Region visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon Quick

This post shows you how to build multi-Region carrier performance dashboards in Quick Sight using Highcharts custom visualizations to overcome native chart limitations. You will learn how to maintain data sovereignty across AWS Regions while creating unified visualizations through the Quick Sight federated dataset capability. The solution includes production-ready chart configurations and addresses security, compliance, and scalability requirements.

Jul 23, 2026

Detecting silent agent failures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization surfaces silent behavioral failures in production AI agents: the ones that pass every health check but still deliver wrong outcomes. Learn how insights discovers, explains, and ranks failure patterns across sessions so you can fix the highest-impact issues first.

The Blueprint: How Voicify makes AI-enabled ordering a delight for customers

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work. Founded in 2018, Voicify reimagines the traditional phone call with the goal of transforming every call into a seamless and engaging experience. The challenge: When we started Voicify in 2018, our vision was to help organizations build confident, pragmatic, and technically grounded voice-driven assistants for any channel, including phones and chat

AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock

AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that monday.com does. Nine in ten Builders use AI coding tools every month, up from roughly half a year ago. Per-engineer PR throughput is up by more than half. Every figure in this post comes from monday's own internal production data. In this post, we share the architecture behind those numbers, the retrofits that made it work in a decade-old code base, and the confidence-scored merge play closing the gap to full autonomy.

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google's $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

AI by Zapier: Add agentic AI steps to your workflows

Guilty of tokenmaxxing? I get it. Now that AI is ubiquitous in all of our work, it's easy to let an agent harness take the reins for every workflow. But tossing your important tasks into the agent void and letting it run amok in your wallet isn't always the cheapest-or smartest-way to go. Some work requires determinism, which means the same input produces the same output every time. Conventional automation handles that more reliably than AI. And it's also less expensive. There's no reason to pay

How Mach 1 uses Zapier MCP to run AI operations across 25 different companies

Most AI agents can complete a task inside a single tool. Running them reliably across an entire business is a different problem. Chris Olson is co-founder and CEO of Mach 1, an AI operations platform that helps mid-market companies deploy agents across go-to-market, customer success, sales, support, and finance operations. He developed the approach after applying AI-driven operations at a sports technology company, helping move the business from a $9 million annual cash burn to $5 million in fre

The 5 best photo editing apps for iPhone and Android (including free options) in 2026

"The best camera is the one you have with you" is an old adage in photography, and there's a lot of truth to it. Even as someone who has at least five cameras at home, I capture more photos with my smartphone than I do anything else. Smartphone cameras have been so good for so long now that it really doesn't feel like a tradeoff. My DSLR definitely doesn't have a wide-angle and an 8x telephoto lens built in. But capturing photos is just the first half of creating a good image. To really make gre

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A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund

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Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)

We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs, the time to go from a blank IDE to a functional local application has dropped from quarters to hours. You can build your wildest ideas over a cup of coffee. But inside an enterprise ecosystem with rigid infrastructure and millions of users, vibe coding hits an invisible wall. Your local prototype falls apart against corporate networks, cascading errors, or getting blocked by leadership terrified of operational volatility. The data is sobering: only 5% of AI prototypes make it to production;

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Zapier for enterprise orchestration: Scaling automation on a trusted platform

Zapier is easy to use-and sometimes ease of use gets conflated with simplicity. But at Zapier, we know that being easy to use and being enterprise-ready aren't mutually exclusive. Any enterprise tool should prioritize ease of use. If you want your entire organization to adopt software, there can't be barriers to entry. Zapier helps your entire company operate more efficiently and achieve mission-critical goals at scale. And it goes beyond workflows: Zapier is an AI orchestration platform where y

MuleSoft integrations: Capabilities and limitations

I have an engineering degree, which I once bravely attempted to use for its intended purpose. I tried connecting devices that absolutely didn't want to be connected. After all, where else was I supposed to use the IoT concepts I spent years pretending I fully understood? My smart setup included a light that needed one app, a plug that needed another app, and a speaker that refused to talk to either of them. That small adventure taught me that integrations sound simple until they meet real-world

Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Distilled Reasoning (SDR), validate it across three benchmarks, and provide practical recommendations.

Now in preview: Find and fix software vulnerabilities with CodeMender

As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed code security agent, and starting today, we're bringing its code scanning and remediation capabilities directly to you in preview. CodeMender offers access to our generally available models via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, or it can be deployed as a core component of AI Threat Defense. CodeMender also aligns with our multi-model approach, so you can choose the right model to optimize for cost,

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How Meta's AI Models are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects

Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action

Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices

With the stock firmware and software, developers couldn't modify their AWS DeepRacer devices to use the latest operating systems. Now, developers can upgrade or install a custom operating system (OS) by using a newly released bootloader, which extends the life of these hardware devices. In this post, we introduce the bootloader, discuss how to use it, and share links to a community distribution that uses it.

Build specialized agent workflows for your business with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit

In this post, we show how Amazon Quick can serve as the business-user front door for specialized agent workflows. We use the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit to build a supply-chain risk example that helps a planner move from an Amazon Quick dashboard and knowledge context to a guided mitigation recommendation.

I've tried every automation software: here are the 10 best in 2026

Automation software seems like a straightforward enough concept until you start shopping for it. Suddenly, you're staring down a list of tools that range from no-code automation builders to enterprise API platforms that require a six-month implementation and a dedicated IT team. They all say they automate things, but that's pretty much where the similarity ends. I've been writing about automation tools for Zapier for years, which means I've tested a lot of these myself. And the opinions I've for

Relay.app is shutting down: How to export your workflows and move to Zapier

Relay is shutting down on August 15, 2026, for free users, and on September 14 for paid plans. Either way, if you built workflows, agents, or tables in Relay, the end is near. The good news is that Relay has made it as easy as possible to transition your workflows to a new tool. Here's how to export your Relay.app data and rebuild those workflows in Zapier, plus what to expect from Zapier as a former Relay user. We'll also cover why Zapier is your best option compared to other Relay alternatives

Web scraping: A comprehensive guide

There are two ways to catch a price drop on that obnoxiously priced all-terrain dog stroller you've been eyeing (but won't admit out loud to the general public-which, smart). You could check the product page every morning and hope today's the day for good boy Professor Waffles. Or you could let a price tracker like camelcamelcamel watch the listing for you and send an alert the moment it dips below a set price. That second option is web scraping at work: an automated tool visits the page, reads

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The 6 best vibe coding tools in 2026

Decades ago, building the Facebooks of the world was reserved for a small elite clad in technical skills. Today, with a sequence of good prompts, endless curiosity, and good testing practices, you too can stand next to the big names and launch your own app-and no, you don't need to know how to write a function. That's what vibe coding is all about: as coined by Andrej Karpathy, you build an app using natural language, and forget that the code is even there. While the hype is mostly gone-the firs

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Jul 19, 2026

Turn off your slop cannon

Good writing is a gift to everyone around you. Clear, concise communication means your readers spend less time decoding your words and more time acting on them. Here's how to write in a way that respects your reader's time and keeps us all from drowning in walls of text. Why this matters AI slop is real, and we can do better. The internet is full of bloated, padded writing generated (or at least inspired) by AI that optimizes for length over clarity. Don't add to it. When you write vague or word

Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate

In this post, we walk through a few ways that Quick delivers on this promise. We cover the entire sales cycle, from identifying your highest-priority prospect, contacting them, working the deal to close, and keeping the CRM up to date as the account matures, while protecting your scarcest resource: your time.

Introducing Mobile Layout for Amazon Quick dashboards

Teams that rely on dashboards for daily decisions often must pinch and zoom to interact with controls originally designed for larger displays. Checking revenue during a morning standup, reviewing pipeline metrics between meetings, or monitoring operations while traveling all require extra effort when the dashboard was built for a desktop screen. Mobile Layout for Amazon [...]

13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we're sharing 13 demos that walk you through what Agent Platform can do. Each one teaches a concept, a pattern, or an architecture you can put to work immediately. The best part? You don't have to follow them step-by-step. Install Agents CLI into your favorite coding agent (Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, whatever you use) and it instantly gets seven skills that make it an expert in ADK and Agent Platform. Describe what you want to build in plain English, and your

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

OpenClaw vs. Zapier: What's the difference? [2026]

If you've spent any time in AI automation circles this year, you've probably heard about OpenClaw. The open-source AI agent went from a side project to a global phenomenon in a matter of weeks, and for good reason: it gives anyone the ability to run an always-on AI assistant from their own machine, controlled through the messaging apps they already use. But popularity doesn't mean it's the right tool for every job. OpenClaw is powerful, flexible, and community-driven. It's also self-hosted, perm

16 AI prompt templates for better AI agent outputs

I've gone through a lot of painful trial and error with AI prompting-a lot. Which was fine when I was experimenting in back-and-forth conversations with AI chatbots, because I could refine my prompts with every response. But it's a different story with AI agents. A weak AI prompt baked into an agent's instructions produces the same bad output-and bills you for the same mistake-every single time it runs, with no one at the keyboard to catch it. I've rounded up 16 AI prompt templates that the Zap

Agentic AI vs. RPA: Everything you need to know

Automation has evolved far beyond simple scripts and basic workflows. While robotic process automation (RPA) has long been used to handle repetitive, rules-based work, especially inside legacy systems, agentic AI represents a newer approach to automation built for far more dynamic problems. Both are designed to reduce manual work and improve efficiency. But RPA works by mimicking human interactions with software through predefined rules and screen-based actions, while agentic AI systems are buil

The best CRM software for real estate agents in 2026

A CRM is your prized possession in real estate. You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., and gathered insights

Integrately vs. Zapier: Which is best? [2026]

Most businesses sign up for an automation platform to fix a specific annoyance. There's only so much copy-paste work you can take before you finally reach the limits of your patience, search "Typeform to HubSpot automation," and find yourself researching whether Integrately or Zapier is the right fit. Integrately is an automation-only platform that's built for one-off workflows like this. But sooner or later, most businesses start asking more questions, like: "Can we filter leads before adding t

Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock

This post covers what makes Grok 4.3 a great fit for agentic and enterprise workloads, how you access it through Amazon Bedrock, and how to use the capabilities most teams reach for first: a basic chat request, configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, structured output, image input, and stateful multi-turn conversations.

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Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms. Google received the furthest and highest in positioning on the "Vision" and "Execution" axes and is now ranked #1 in three out of four Critical Capabilities Use Cases. We believe this recognition reflects our continued investment in frontier AI research, enterprise infrastructure, and helping customers move AI from experimentation into production at scale. More importantly, we believe it reflects the success of the organizations building with Gemini Enterprise for Cu

Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades

Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model updates whether migrating to an entirely new model or updating to a newer checkpoint within the same model family, like moving from an earlier Gemini version to Gemini 3.5 - often require a slow and costly process of testing, proving quality, and manually evaluating new responses. For most engineering teams, upgrading to a new model checkpoint means months of manual toil to verify performance. And the industry is moving at breakneck pac

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender's advantage

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you're reading this on the website and you'd like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block ), ('btn_text', 'Visit the hub'), ('href', 'https://cloud.google.com/solutions/security/board-of-directors?utm_source=cgc-site&utm_medium=et&utm_c

Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we show you how to build a voice ordering system that answers a phone number and takes the order from greeting to confirmation. The system uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to host and run the agent and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time speech, connected to a restaurant backend through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The walkthrough covers deploying the full stack with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and bridging a phone call into the agent through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate. It also warms the age

Fine-Tuning vs. RAG: When To Use Each for Production LLMs

Explore fine-tuning versus RAG to understand how they differ, when each approach works best, and why many production LLM systems use both.