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Srihitha Dasari broadened her medical aspirations by integrating public health and technology through community-engaged co-design approaches.
MIT-founded Fourth Power developed a novel thermal battery system using molten metal and carbon bricks to achieve efficient, high-temperature energy storage with promising conversion efficiencies.
Researchers developed the first three-dimensional mosquito flight model identifying distinct behavioral patterns shaped by visual and chemical stimuli.
Amazon Bedrock expanded its AI model offerings by including GLM 5 and Minimax M2.5, designed for complex agentic tasks and efficient reasoning under practical constraints.
AWS expanded its high-memory computing capabilities in Asia Pacific by introducing U7i instances with 6TiB DDR5 memory powered by custom Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors.
Amazon Bedrock integrated NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Super, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts model tailored for complex multi-agent workflows and advanced reasoning.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry enhanced its pull through cache feature to maintain synchronized Chainguard container images with improved security and availability.
Amazon introduced S3 Access Grants in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, simplifying scalable data permission management via corporate identity mapping.
Amazon EC2 expanded its sixth-generation M6in and M6idn instances to the London region, providing enhanced networking and memory options for network-intensive workloads.
AWS introduced the compute-optimized C8a instance family in its Asia Pacific Tokyo region, leveraging 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for improved performance and cost-efficiency.
NASA prepares for the second flight of its experimental X-59 aircraft to evaluate supersonic performance with reduced noise.
Different anesthesia drugs disrupt brain stability similarly, causing loss of consciousness, per new neuroscience research.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect integrates NDI inputs to bridge live IP video production with cloud distribution workflows.
New feature in AWS Security Agent allows customizable report downloads to streamline review and collaboration.
Amazon Connect broadens multilingual AI voice capabilities, supporting self-service in 40 language variants worldwide.
New AWS regions and voices enhance Amazon Connect’s natural and adaptive AI speech synthesis capabilities.
A comprehensive lineage graph helps users trace full data transformations and dependencies in SageMaker workflows.
Amazon SageMaker enables flexible GPU capacity extensions for uninterrupted AI training workloads.
AWS unifies mainframe modernization tools under AWS Transform with no-cost code transformation and easier access.
Amazon MSK introduces high-throughput Express brokers in new global regions to enhance Kafka cluster performance.
Engineers at MIT created a chip-scale sensor prototype that detects pneumonia biomarkers in exhaled breath, promising faster diagnosis.
Research uncovers how diverse marine bacteria collectively decompose biodegradable plastics and how degradation varies by species and environment.
AWS introduced CloudWatch rules that automatically enable detailed monitoring for EC2 instances across entire organizations or specified scopes.
CloudWatch Logs added HTTP Log Collector endpoints supporting multiple log formats and bearer token authentication for flexible cross-platform ingestion.
HyperPod's new dynamic resource sharing lets teams borrow unutilized compute capacity in clusters beyond fixed quotas to maximize utilization.
Neptune added the neptune.read() procedure for direct openCypher querying of external S3 data without prior loading.
AWS expanded Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise multi-node support to enhance fault tolerance and query performance.
AWS Partner Central agents use AI to provide sales teams with insights, deal recommendations, and funding guidance.
SimpleDB domains can now be exported directly to S3 in JSON format without impacting live database performance.
Amazon Connect agents can now forward customer emails to external recipients while maintaining ownership and communication history.
MIT researchers employ AI-driven computational models to understand and anticipate tumor evolution and treatment resistance.
Researchers develop AI tool to forecast changes in cardiac function in heart failure patients within a year of hospitalization.
Efforts to expand geothermal power focus on tapping superhot rocks deep underground to boost clean electricity generation.
AWS Security Agent enables centralized monitoring and seamless scaling of security-related service limits.
AgentCore Runtime advances AI agent interactivity by enabling real-time user interface communication via AG-UI.
AWS adds console tools to automate SLO target setting, monitoring, and reporting for application reliability.
Integration of AWS Serverless Application Model expertise into AI agent development enables streamlined serverless app building.
AWS expands high-memory, latency-sensitive workloads capability in Asia Pacific with new AMD-powered instances.
AWS debuts AMD-powered instances optimized for compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads with maximum 5GHz CPU frequency.
AWS enables more cost-effective and higher throughput Kafka clusters in Cape Town with latest Graviton3 instances.
NASA's Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project developed the X-59 aircraft to demonstrate reduced sonic booms, advancing commercial supersonic travel over land.
NASA's SPARCS spacecraft captured first ultraviolet images to study stellar activity on common low-mass stars, advancing exoplanet habitability research.
MIT introduced a modern major blending core electrical engineering and computing, quickly becoming a popular choice among first-year students.
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduced cross-account data access, allowing querying multiple AWS accounts in one interface without data replication.
AWS’s Landing Zone Accelerator MCP Server enables natural language configuration and monitoring using AI assistants in a containerized, open source format.
Elastic Beanstalk introduced a Deployments tab showing all deployment history plus live logs for ongoing application updates.
The connector now uses AWS PrivateLink to enable private, internet-free certificate enrollment within VPCs.
New AWS EC2 I7ie instances target storage-intensive workloads with improved compute power and high-density NVMe storage.
CDK Mixins let developers compose reusable features onto AWS constructs without extensive code rewrites.
AgentCore Memory’s new streaming notifications push updates instantly, eliminating polling for long-term memory changes.
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