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A NASA-developed image processing method originally applied to satellite data has been adapted to reveal faded ancient paintings and rock art on Earth.
Amazon Web Services released OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model on its Bedrock platform, targeting advanced business applications requiring extended context and nuanced reasoning.
Amazon Web Services enhanced its managed InfluxDB 3 service by allowing customer-hosted Python plugins to execute within the database engine for tailored data processing.
A new capability in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store allows updating individual features within records, improving efficiency for AI model feature management.
AWS launched its automated server migration service, AWS Transform, in the GovCloud (US-West) region to support secure cloud transitions for government and regulated entities.
API Gateway now supports presenting user-managed ACM certificates to backend services during TLS handshakes, enhancing end-to-end mutual TLS security.
Developers can now send content directly to long-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory without creating short-term memory events first.
Amazon RDS updated MariaDB support to multiple recent community minor versions, incorporating operational improvements and post-quantum cryptography for data encryption in transit.
HealthOmics now lets users specify prioritized lists of accelerator types, improving workflow completion rates by falling back to alternative compute resources automatically.
AWS expanded Dynamic Image Transformation capabilities by introducing multi-label smart cropping, device-aware optimization, an interactive playground, and ECS/Lambda parity.
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