Book Bits: 14 February 2026

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By purchasing books through this site, you provide support for The Capital Spectator’s free content...● AI Economics: How Technology Transforms Jobs, Markets, Life, & Our FutureBenjamin ShillerReview via FortuneThe weirdest thing of all in economics, says Brandeis University Economics Professor Benjamin Shiller, is that weirdness is closely tied to fate in the age of artificial intellig...

US Growth Expected To Moderate In Next Week’s Q4 GDP Report

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Recession risk remains low, but the torrid pace of GDP growth in recent quarters is expected to downshift in next week’s delayed fourth-quarter report from the government, based on the median for a set of nowcasts compiled by The Capital Spectator...Wednesday’s better-than-expected payrolls report for last month strengthens the view that the economy remains resilient, at least in relative ...

AI meets HR: Transforming talent acquisition with Amazon Bedrock

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In this post, we show how to create an AI-powered recruitment system using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, AWS Lambda, and other AWS services to enhance job description creation, candidate communication, and interview preparation while maintaining human oversight... Job description creation and optimization Creating inclusive and attractive job descriptions is crucial for attra...

Build long-running MCP servers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Strands Agents integration

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By using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents to implement persistent state management, you can enable seamless, cross-session task execution in production environments... Finally, we demonstrate how to bring these strategies together with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents to build production-ready AI agents that can handle complex, time-intensive operations reliably... When to ...

The data behind the design: How Pantone built agentic AI with an AI-ready database

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That’s why I was excited to host Color Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI Journey on Azure, a webinar featuring two Pantone leaders, Kristijan Risteski, solutions architect, and Rohani Jotshi, senior director of engineering...Watch the Color Meets Code webinarThe challenge: Scaling color expertise in a real-time, interactive worldPantone is widely recognized as a global authori...

New Research Highlights Value Of Forecasts From Betting Markets

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The latest twist on this idea arises from betting markets... A study published last month from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the forecasts from Kalshi, an online betting market, offers forecasts that are “comparable” in accuracy to “established benchmarks such as the Survey of Market Expectations and the Bloomberg consensus...” The authors add:In several cases, ...

Agentic cloud operations: A new way to run the cloud

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See how you can run agents with Azure CopilotAs modern applications and AI workloads expand in scale, speed, and interconnectedness, operational demands are evolving just as quickly... At the same time, AI agents are emerging as practical operational partners—able to correlate signals, understand context, and take action within defined guardrails...Introducing agentic cloud operati...