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NASA developed and deployed low-cost thermal sensors on fire bulldozers to alert operators of dangerous heat levels and collect fire behavior data beneath forest canopies.
In 2026, NASA's Lunabotics Challenge showcased student-built lunar robots designed with resilience, efficiency, and autonomy for sustained Moon infrastructure.
Amazon launched P6-B200 EC2 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Intel Emerald Rapids CPUs on SageMaker notebooks for enhanced AI model training.
Amazon EC2 P5.48xl instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs became available on SageMaker notebooks in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) to enhance AI and HPC performance.
Amazon EC2 P4de instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB memory each, offer improved performance and cost savings on SageMaker notebooks.
Amazon Bedrock now supports viewing inference quotas via AWS Service Quotas for its bedrock-mantle endpoint, aiding generative AI workload management.
Amazon EC2 P5en.48xl instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and Intel Xeon processors offer improved AI training and inference performance on SageMaker notebooks.
Amazon EC2 P5.4xl instances powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs offer accelerated model training and cost reductions for generative AI on SageMaker notebooks.
AWS Glue added new large compute and memory-optimized workers in its Spain region to handle complex data processing and analytics workloads.
Amazon Connect Customer integrates generative AI to automatically assess and provide insights on self-service customer interactions.
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