All news with #retrieval-augmented generation tag

OpenAI Updates GPT-5 to Better Handle Emotional Distress

🧭 OpenAI rolled out an October 5 update that enables GPT-5 to better recognize and respond to mental and emotional distress in conversations. The change specifically upgrades GPT-5 Instant—the fast, low-end default—so it can detect signs of acute distress and route sensitive exchanges to reasoning models when needed. OpenAI says it developed the update with mental-health experts to prioritize de-escalation and provide appropriate crisis resources while retaining supportive, grounding language. The update is available broadly and complements new company-context access via connected apps.

AI-targeted Cloaking Tricks Agentic Browsers, Warns SPLX

⚠ Researchers report a new form of context-poisoning called AI-targeted cloaking that serves different content to agentic browsers and AI crawlers. SPLX shows attackers can use a trivial user-agent check to deliver alternate pages to crawlers from ChatGPT and Perplexity, turning retrieved content into manipulated ground truth. The technique mirrors search engine cloaking but targets AI overviews and autonomous reasoning, creating a potent misinformation vector. A concurrent hTAG analysis also found many agents execute risky actions with minimal safeguards, amplifying potential harm.

Amazon Web Grounding for Nova Models Now Generally Available

🌐 Web Grounding is now generally available as a built-in tool for Nova models, usable today with Nova Premier via the Amazon Bedrock tool use API. It retrieves and incorporates publicly available information with citations to support responses, enabling a turnkey RAG solution that reduces hallucinations and improves accuracy. Cross-region inference makes the tool available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon). Support for additional Nova models will follow.

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings — Unified Cross-Modal

🚀 Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a unified embedding model designed for agentic RAG and semantic search across text, documents, images, video, and audio. The model handles inputs up to 8K tokens and video/audio segments up to 30 seconds, with segmentation for larger files and selectable embedding dimensions. Both synchronous and asynchronous APIs are supported to balance latency and throughput, and Nova is available in Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia).

Agent Factory Recap: Securing AI Agents in Production

🛡️ This recap of the Agent Factory episode explains practical strategies for securing production AI agents, demonstrating attacks like prompt injection, invisible Unicode exploits, and vector DB context poisoning. It highlights Model Armor for pre- and post-inference filtering, sandboxed execution, network isolation, observability, and tool safeguards via the Agent Development Kit (ADK). The team demonstrates a secured DevOps assistant that blocks data-exfiltration attempts while preserving intended functionality and provides operational guidance on multi-agent authentication, least-privilege IAM, and compliance-ready logging.

Four Bottlenecks Slowing Enterprise GenAI Adoption

🔒 Since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, enterprises have rapidly launched GenAI pilots but struggle to convert experimentation into measurable value — only 3 of 37 pilots succeed. The article identifies four critical bottlenecks: security & data privacy, observability, evaluation & migration readiness, and secure business integration. It recommends targeted controls such as confidential compute, fine‑grained agent permissions, distributed tracing and replay environments, continuous evaluation pipelines and dual‑run migrations, plus policy‑aware integrations and impact analytics to move pilots into reliable production.

Digital Sovereignty Sessions at AWS re:Invent 2025 Guide

📘 The AWS re:Invent 2025 attendee guide highlights the conference's digital sovereignty program, detailing sessions, workshops, and code talks focused on data residency, hybrid and edge deployments, and sovereign infrastructure. Key topics include the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, AWS Outposts, Local Zones, and security features such as the Nitro System. Practical workshops and chalk talks demonstrate RAG, agentic AI, and low-latency SLM deployments with operational controls and compliance patterns. Reserve seating via the attendee portal or access sessions with the free virtual pass.

SmarterX Builds Custom LLMs with Google Cloud Tools

🔍 SmarterX uses Google Cloud to build custom LLMs that help retailers, manufacturers, and logistics companies manage regulatory compliance across product lifecycles. Using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Gemini, and Vertex AI, the company ingests, normalizes, and indexes unstructured regulatory and product data, applies RAG and grounding, and trains customer-specific models. The integrated platform empowers subject matter experts to evaluate, correct, and deploy model updates without heavy engineering overhead.

Agentic AI and the OODA Loop: The Integrity Problem

🛡️ Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan argue that agentic AIs run repeated OODA loops—Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—over web-scale, adversarial inputs, and that current architectures lack the integrity controls to handle untrusted observations. They show how prompt injection, dataset poisoning, stateful cache contamination, and tool-call vectors (e.g., MCP) let attackers embed malicious control into ordinary inputs. The essay warns that fixing hallucinations is insufficient: we need architectural integrity—semantic verification, privilege separation, and new trust boundaries—rather than surface patches.

Scaling Customer Experience with AI on Google Cloud

🤖 LiveX AI outlines a Google Cloud blueprint to scale conversational customer experiences across chat, voice, and avatar interfaces. The post details how Cloud Run hosts elastic front-end microservices while GKE provides GPU-backed AI inference, and how AgentFlow orchestrates conversational state, knowledge retrieval, and human escalation. Reported customer outcomes include a >90% self-service rate for Wyze and a 3× conversion uplift for Pictory. The design emphasizes cost efficiency, sub-second latency, multilingual support, and secure integrations with platforms such as Stripe, Zendesk, and Salesforce.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes: iSCSI, FlexCache, Gemini

🚀 Google Cloud announced enhancements to NetApp Volumes, adding unified iSCSI block and file storage to support SAN migrations and NetApp FlexCache for high-performance local caching in hybrid environments. The service integrates with Gemini Enterprise as a data store for retrieval-augmented generation, and includes large-capacity volumes, SnapMirror replication, and auto-tiering to optimize performance and costs.

Amazon ElastiCache Adds Vector Search with Valkey 8.2

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now offers vector search generally available with Valkey 8.2, enabling indexing, searching, and updating billions of high-dimensional embeddings from providers such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with microsecond latency and up to 99% recall. Key use cases include semantic caching for LLMs, multi-turn conversational agents, and RAG-enabled agentic systems to reduce latency and cost. Vector search runs on node-based clusters in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and existing Valkey or Redis OSS clusters can be upgraded to Valkey 8.2 with no downtime.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Generative AI Observability

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch is generally available with Generative AI Observability, providing end-to-end telemetry for AI applications and AgentCore-managed agents. It expands monitoring beyond model runtime to include Built-in Tools, Gateways, Memory, and Identity, surfacing latency, token usage, errors, and performance across components. The capability integrates with orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Strands Agents, and works with existing CloudWatch features and pricing for underlying telemetry.

Amazon Quick Suite: Agentic AI Workspace for Business

🤖 Amazon Quick Suite is now generally available as an agentic, AI-powered workspace that retrieves insights across the public internet and your enterprise data stores — including Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake, databases, and other documents — and moves instantly from answers to actions. Quick Suite can execute or trigger tasks in popular applications like Salesforce, Jira, and ServiceNow, and automate workflows from RFP responses to invoice processing and account reconciliation. AWS highlights customer privacy — queries and data are not used to train models — and administrators can enable and tailor the experience quickly; new customers receive a 30-day trial for up to 25 users.

AI in Today's Cybersecurity: Detection, Hunting, Response

🤖 Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. The article explains how AI reduces alert noise, prioritizes vulnerabilities, and supports behavioral analysis, UEBA, and NLP-driven phishing detection. It highlights Wazuh's integrations with models such as Claude 3.5, Llama 3, and ChatGPT to provide conversational insights, automated hunting, and contextual remediation guidance.

AWS Knowledge MCP Server Now Generally Available Globally

🔎 The AWS Knowledge MCP Server is now generally available, giving AI agents and MCP-compatible clients access to authoritative AWS documentation, blog posts, What's New announcements, and Well-Architected guidance in an LLM-friendly format. The GA release also adds structured knowledge about regional API and CloudFormation resource availability. The server is publicly accessible at no cost and does not require an AWS account, though usage is rate-limited. Configure MCP clients to use the AWS Knowledge MCP Server endpoint to anchor agent responses in trusted AWS context and reduce manual context management.

Adapting Enterprise Risk Management for Generative AI

🛡️ This post explains how to adapt enterprise risk management frameworks to safely scale cloud-based generative AI, combining governance foundations with practical controls. It emphasizes the cloud as the foundational infrastructure and identifies differences from on‑premises models that change risk profiles and vendor relationships. The guidance maps traditional ERMF elements to AI-specific controls across fairness, explainability, privacy/security, safety, controllability, veracity/robustness, governance, and transparency, and references tools such as Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, SageMaker Clarify, and the ISO/IEC 42001 standard to operationalize those controls.

Enabling AI Sovereignty Through Choice and Openness Globally

🌐 Cloudflare argues that AI sovereignty should mean choice: the ability for nations to control data, select models, and deploy applications without vendor lock-in. Through its distributed edge network and serverless Workers AI, Cloudflare promotes accessible, low-cost deployment and inference close to users. The company hosts regional open-source models—India’s IndicTrans2, Japan’s PLaMo-Embedding-1B, and Singapore’s SEA-LION v4-27B—and offers an AI Gateway to connect diverse models. Open standards, interoperability, and pay-as-you-go economics are presented as central to resilient national AI strategies.

INDOT Used Google AI to Save 360 Hours and Meet Deadline

🚀 Indiana Department of Transportation built a week-long pilot on Google Cloud to meet a 30-day executive order, using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflow that combined rapid ETL, Vertex AI Search indexing, and Gemini. The system scraped and parsed decades of internal policies and manuals, produced draft reports across nine divisions with 98% fidelity, and saved an estimated 360 hours of manual effort, enabling INDOT to submit on time.

Responsible AI Bot Principles to Protect Web Content

🛡️ Cloudflare proposes five practical principles to guide responsible AI bot behavior and protect web publishers, users, and infrastructure. The framework stresses public disclosure, reliable self-identification (moving toward cryptographic verification such as Web Bot Auth), a declared single purpose for crawlers, and respect for operator preferences via robots.txt or headers. Operators must also avoid deceptive or high-volume crawling, and Cloudflare invites multi-stakeholder collaboration to refine and adopt these norms.