Macro Briefing: 16 December 2025
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US homebuilder sentiment edged up in December, but continues to reflect negative sentiment about the market outlook... “The recent easing of monetary policy should help builder loan conditions at the start of 2026,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz... “However, builders continue to face supply-side headwinds, as regulatory costs and material prices remain stubbornly high......
US homebuilder sentiment edged up in December, but continues to reflect negative sentiment about the market outlook... “The recent easing of monetary policy should help builder loan conditions at the start of 2026,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz... “However, builders continue to face supply-side headwinds, as regulatory costs and material prices remain stubbornly high......
What AWS Security learned from responding to recent npm supply chain threat campaigns
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A key part of our incident response approach is to continually drive improvements into our response workflow and security systems to improve ahead of future incidents... We are also deeply committed to helping our customers and the global security community improve... Within 30 minutes, a security incident command was established, and teams around the world began coordinating an investigation... ...
A key part of our incident response approach is to continually drive improvements into our response workflow and security systems to improve ahead of future incidents... We are also deeply committed to helping our customers and the global security community improve... Within 30 minutes, a security incident command was established, and teams around the world began coordinating an investigation... ...
Checkpointless training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: Production-scale training with faster fault recovery
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Foundation model training has reached an inflection point where traditional checkpoint-based recovery methods are becoming a bottleneck to efficiency and cost-effectiveness... As models grow to trillions of parameters and training clusters expand to thousands of AI accelerators, even minor disruptions can result in significant costs and delays... In this post, we introduce checkpointless training...
Foundation model training has reached an inflection point where traditional checkpoint-based recovery methods are becoming a bottleneck to efficiency and cost-effectiveness... As models grow to trillions of parameters and training clusters expand to thousands of AI accelerators, even minor disruptions can result in significant costs and delays... In this post, we introduce checkpointless training...
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
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As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined... Going into ...
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the primary initial access vector, while vulnerability exploitation activity declined... Going into ...
Adaptive infrastructure for foundation model training with elastic training on SageMaker HyperPod
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Modern AI infrastructure serves multiple concurrent workloads on the same cluster, from foundation model (FM) pre-training and fine-tuning to production inference and evaluation... Despite this dynamic availability of AI accelerators, traditional training workloads remain locked into their initial compute allocation, unable to take advantage of idle compute capacity without manual intervention... ...
Modern AI infrastructure serves multiple concurrent workloads on the same cluster, from foundation model (FM) pre-training and fine-tuning to production inference and evaluation... Despite this dynamic availability of AI accelerators, traditional training workloads remain locked into their initial compute allocation, unable to take advantage of idle compute capacity without manual intervention... ...
Customize agent workflows with advanced orchestration techniques using Strands Agents
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She has a strong background in computer vision, machine learning, and AI for healthcare...Large Language Model (LLM) agents have revolutionized how we approach complex, multi-step tasks by combining the reasoning capabilities of foundation models with specialized tools and domain expertise... While single-agent systems using frameworks like ReAct work well for straightforward tasks, real-world ch...
She has a strong background in computer vision, machine learning, and AI for healthcare...Large Language Model (LLM) agents have revolutionized how we approach complex, multi-step tasks by combining the reasoning capabilities of foundation models with specialized tools and domain expertise... While single-agent systems using frameworks like ReAct work well for straightforward tasks, real-world ch...
US Economic Updates This Week Will Help Clear The Data Fog
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Lingering effects from the government shutdown continue to blur economic analysis, but two reports scheduled this week will provide markets with some much-needed clarity on how the fourth-quarter is unfolding... 18) will be closely read and possibly dispense market-moving releases... Economists, however, are expecting results that support the recent narrative of a weakening labor market and inflat...
Lingering effects from the government shutdown continue to blur economic analysis, but two reports scheduled this week will provide markets with some much-needed clarity on how the fourth-quarter is unfolding... 18) will be closely read and possibly dispense market-moving releases... Economists, however, are expecting results that support the recent narrative of a weakening labor market and inflat...