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AWS MLAWS ML

Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge

A practical guide to building and validating multi-turn reinforcement learning reward functions with Amazon Nova Forge, including BYOO orchestration, GRPO-based updates, and safeguards for code execution and instrumentation.

8/14/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Building agentic workflows with SageMaker AI and Bedrock AgentCore

Guide to building agentic, multi-agent workflows by integrating SageMaker AI's OpenAI-compatible endpoints with Bedrock AgentCore to achieve cost efficiency, data residency, and end-to-end token-level observability.

8/14/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge

A concise guide to designing and validating multi-turn reinforcement learning reward functions for Amazon Nova Forge, detailing BYOO orchestration, GRPO-based training, and practical pitfalls, instrumentation, and safety considerations.

8/14/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Using AI_Functions in Your Data Warehouse: Top Use Cases

Bringing AI directly to the data warehouse via AI Functions in a unified Databricks Lakehouse, this post demonstrates SQL-based use cases that fuse structured data with unstructured content under a single governance model.

8/14/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to build a scalable, global revenue operating system that accelerates enterprise AI and makes AI broadly useful.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Ultrafast mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and Cerebras, delivers up to 14x faster throughput via the OpenAI API, enabling real-time frontier intelligence across incident response, financial research, commerce, and customer support.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

A production-focused guide to GPT-5.6 for startups, showing how smarter model selection, persistent reasoning, parallel multi-agent orchestration, and programmatic tool calling deliver faster, more capable agents at a fraction of the cost.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to scale the global revenue organization and accelerate AI adoption across enterprises and users by building a repeatable revenue operating system for a compute-powered economy.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Ultrafast mode previews GPT-5.6 Sol running up to 14x faster on a Cerebras-powered OpenAI API, enabling real-time frontier intelligence across incident response, financial research, customer support, and live experimentation.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to build a scalable, global revenue engine for enterprise AI and accelerate its go-to-market strategy.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

A practical blueprint for startups to dramatically boost agent performance with GPT-5.6 while slashing costs, leveraging smarter model selection, reasoning persistence and compaction, parallel multi-agent orchestration, and programmatic tool calling via new Responses API primitives.

8/13/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Ultrafast mode accelerates GPT-5.6 Sol to up to 14x the speed with Cerebras, delivering real-time, ultra-low-latency inference across incident response, financial research, customer support, commerce, and live experimentation.

8/13/2026