Book Bits: 27 June 2026

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content...● Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth―and What to Do About It Samuel Moyn Review via The Economist America is ruled by the old, argues Samuel Moyn, a Yale professor, in “Gerontocracy in America”... American lawmakers grow mightier with seniority, and there...

Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3

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In this post, you’ll build a server that extracts text from PDF files in Amazon S3 in real time... Along the way, you’ll compare this approach with Amazon Textract so you can decide which tool fits your workload... Interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3 gives you real-time answers from your documents without batch pipelines or heavy infrastructure... For complex document processing l...

How Cara pioneers domain-specific AI for enterprise insurance brokerages with AWS

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Encouraged by strong adoption, they expanded the concept into a standalone product: Cara...Insurance is an $8 trillion global industry burdened by manual workflows and a growing talent shortage... Effective AI for insurance must understand domain-specific data models and brokerage workflows... The copilot reduced turnaround times, improved data accuracy, and streamlined agent workflows... EKS man...

Production-grade AI agents for financial compliance: Lessons from Stripe

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This post explores how Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system on AWS using Amazon Bedrock that reduced review handling time by 26 percent while maintaining human oversight... The post covers the technical architecture, infrastructure decisions, and lessons learned from deploying agentic AI that achieved over 96 percent helpfulness ratings, with human experts firmly in control of final de...

Core Inflation’s Persistence Raises Questions for the Fed’s Strategy

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The Federal Reserve has been keeping interest rates steady, waiting to see whether the recent inflation surge will be temporary... The view that energy costs have peaked—and will continue to fall—suggests that headline inflation will soon turn lower... But yesterday’s release highlights that inflation pressures are still building for reasons unrelated to energy, giving the Fed less room to a...

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services

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They weren’t designed for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, the emerging standard for autonomous agents that collaborate, reason, and coordinate through structured messaging... That worked in the absence of a common agent protocol, but it means many existing agents now sit outside the emerging A2A framework... You also need to bring these REST-based agents into a standardized agent-to-agent w...

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

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Optimizing model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs changes what’s practical for large AI models... If you train large models today, you are likely working around a familiar set of constraints: batch sizes limited by GPU memory, sequence lengths cut short to avoid out-of-memory errors, and model sharding that adds communication overhead as you scale... Blackwell’s expan...