Macro Briefing: 12 July 2024

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* Futures estimate of first rate cut on Sep. 18 rises to 90%-plus probability * Rate cuts may be appropriate, says San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly * Jobless claims in US fell to a 6-week low last week * US consumer inflation’ 1-year trend falls to 3.0% in June–lowest in over 3 years * US 10yr Treasury yield drops to 4.22%, lowest close since March:China’s trade surplus surges to a r...

Using Agents for Amazon Bedrock to interactively generate infrastructure as code

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In the diverse toolkit available for deploying cloud infrastructure, Agents for Amazon Bedrock offers a practical and innovative option for teams looking to enhance their infrastructure as code (IaC) processes... Agents for Amazon Bedrock automates the prompt engineering and orchestration of user-requested tasks... This solution shows how Amazon Bedrock agents can be configured to accept cloud ar...

Improve RAG accuracy with fine-tuned embedding models on Amazon SageMaker

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a popular paradigm that provides additional knowledge to large language models (LLMs) from an external source of data that wasn’t present in their training corpus... Challenges in RAG accuracy Pre-trained embedding models are typically trained on large, general-purpose datasets like Wikipedia or web-crawl data... While these models capture a broad ran...

How BRIA AI used distributed training in Amazon SageMaker to train latent diffusion foundation models for commercial use

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This post explains how BRIA AI trained BRIA AI 2... Amazon SageMaker training jobs and Amazon SageMaker distributed training libraries took on the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with infrastructure management... SageMaker helps you build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for your use cases with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows... BRIA AI is a pioneerin...

US Stocks Look Overbought. Will It Matter (Anytime Soon)?

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The S&P 500 Index closed sharply higher on Wednesday (July 10), rising to yet another record high... Beta risk, in other words, is making more investors look like geniuses this year...Not surprisingly, valuations are high, as the CAPE and other indicators suggest...For another perspective, the market appears overbought on a short-term basis, according to CapitalSpectator... Deciding not to...

Macro Briefing: 11 July 2024

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* Near-zero rates era is “probably over,” says Fed Chairman Powell * Federal Trade Commission set to sue big pharma over high drug costs * Gen X retirement crisis looms, new survey suggests * CFTC chairman reiterates that Bitcoin and Ether are commodities * Asia stock surge, led by tech stocks rallied including chipmaking giant TSMC * US stock market (S&P 500) rises sharply, setting yet an...

AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)

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This achievement underscores our ongoing commitment to the security and integrity of our software supply chain... Executive Order (EO) 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (May 12, 2021) directs U... government agencies to take a variety of actions that “enhance the security of the software supply chain... A FedRAMP certified Third Party Assessment Organization (3PAO) assessed AWS ag...