Macro Briefing: 6 August 2025

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US trade deficit narrows as imports fall in June...US services sector flatlined in July, based on the ISM Services Index... A competing survey, however, reported stronger activity for services: “Growth gained momentum in the US service sector during July,” according to the S&P Global US Services Index......

OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS

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AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you always have access to the latest advancements to drive your business forward... Today, I am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models with open weights in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon...

Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS

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Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS service that lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)... With Amazon EVS, you can deploy fully functional VCF environments in just hours using a guided workflow, while running your VMware workloads on qualified Ama...

Discover insights from Microsoft Exchange with the Microsoft Exchange connector for Amazon Q Business

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Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI-powered assistant that helps enterprises unlock the value of their data and knowledge... With Amazon Q Business, you can quickly find answers to questions, generate summaries and content, and complete tasks by using the information and expertise stored across your company’s various data sources and enterprise systems... This enables the Amazon ...

OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry 

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Azure AI Foundry provides a unified platform for building, fine-tuning, and deploying intelligent agents with confidence while Foundry Local brings open-source models to the edge—enabling flexible, on-device inferencing across billions of devices... With the launch of OpenAI’s gpt‑oss models—its first open-weight release since GPT‑2—we’re giving developers and enterprises unpre...

Recession Talk Is Back, But Confirming Data Still Missing

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Judging by the headlines, it’s tempting to conclude that a US recession is imminent...Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi on Sunday warned that “The economy is on the precipice of recession... Whether it translates to a recession or not is the question that I’m asking now... There’s always another recession lurking, but the timing is, to put it mildly, is challenging......

Macro Briefing: 5 August 2025

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US factory orders fell sharply in June... New orders contracted 4... Excluding the volatile transportation sector, orders rose 0... The integrity of the Bureal of Labor Statistics is in focus as President Trump prepares to name a new head of the agency after he fired its chief last week...” Republicans on Capitol Hill are anxious on the economic outlook after the latest jobs report highlighted a...