Holiday Interlude …

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The Capital Spectator is decamping to Edinburgh and Lisbon for the next week. The usual schedule resumes on Tuesday, June 3. Meantime, please leave a light in the window for your wandering editor......

Book Bits: 24 May 2025

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Alongside the fly-on-the-wall observations of OpenAI’s work culture, built from hundreds of interviews with employees, e-mails and Slack conversations, Hao pulls back the curtain on the departure of early investor Elon Musk, the reinstatement of charismatic Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and reports from Colombia and Kenya, where she interviews low-wage contract workers who were tasked with...

Principal Financial Group increases Voice Virtual Assistant performance using Genesys, Amazon Lex, and Amazon QuickSight

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touch tone experiences) Assist customers with self-service offerings where possible Accurately route customer calls based on business rules Assist engagement center agents with contextual data Initially, Principal developed a voice Virtual Assistant (VA) using an Amazon Lex bot to recognize customer intents... In this post, we explore how Principal used this opportunity to build an inte...

Inflation Anxiety And The “Big Beautiful Bill”

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A key issue for markets is how, or if, the legislation will be amended with respect to projections that, if passed, the bill will deepen an already hefty federal deficit in the years ahead and thereby stoke inflation concerns as the government’s borrowing needs increase...”Meanwhile, three key market indicators deserve close attention for real-time feedback for inflation expectations:...

Macro Briefing: 23 May 2025

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” US jobless claims edged down last week, holding at relatively low level...US economic activity slowed for second month in April, according to the Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index: “Three of the four broad categories of indicators used to construct the index decreased from March, and three categories made negative contributions in April...05 in April... “US business activity growth a...

Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic

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Anthropic launched the next generation of Claude models today—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of the next generation of capable, autonomous AI agents... Both models are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, giving developers immediate access to both the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities... Amazon Bedrock expands your AI cho...

Optimize query responses with user feedback using Amazon Bedrock embedding and few-shot prompting

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This post demonstrates how Amazon Bedrock, combined with a user feedback dataset and few-shot prompting, can refine responses for higher user satisfaction... Recent studies have highlighted the value of feedback and prompting in refining AI responses... Similarly, Black-Box Prompt Optimization: Aligning Large Language Models without Model Training demonstrates how retrieval augmented chain-of-th...