Macro Briefing: 4 October 2024

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US jobless claims rose last week, but the number of new filings for unemployment benefits remains low relative to history...9% surge in the previous month...9 last month, indicator a moderate rate of growth... The positive reading marks the third straight month of growth and marks the highest level in 1-1/2 years... The upbeat data suggests that the recent soft patch for the US economy rebounded i...

How Aviva built a scalable, secure, and reliable MLOps platform using Amazon SageMaker

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Previously, ML models at Aviva were developed using a graphical UI-driven tool and deployed manually... This approach led to data scientists spending more than 50% of their time on operational tasks, leaving little room for innovation, and posed challenges in monitoring model performance in production... This solution establishes MLOps practices to standardize model development, streamline ML mod...

Visier’s data science team boosts their model output 10 times by migrating to Amazon SageMaker

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This post is co-written with Ike Bennion from Visier... Visier’s mission is rooted in the belief that people are the most valuable asset of every organization and that optimizing their potential requires a nuanced understanding of workforce dynamics... Paycor is an example of the many world-leading enterprise people analytics companies that trust and use the Visier platform to process large vo...

Implement model-independent safety measures with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

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This need becomes more pronounced when organizations use multiple FMs across different use cases, because maintaining consistent safeguards is crucial for accelerating development cycles and implementing a uniform approach to responsible AI... In April 2024, we announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to help you introduce safeguards, prevent harmful content, and evaluate ...

Customer compliance and security during the post-quantum cryptographic migration

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AWS has also been introducing quantum-resistant key exchange in common transport protocols used by our customers in order to provide long-term confidentiality... In this blog post, we elaborate how customer compliance and security configuration responsibility will operate in the post-quantum migration of secure connections to the cloud... We explain how customers are responsible for enabling quan...

Drasi: Microsoft’s newest open-source project simplifies change detection and reaction in complex systems

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Drasi is a new data processing system that simplifies detecting critical events within complex infrastructures and taking immediate action tuned to business objectives... The Microsoft Azure Incubations team is excited to announce that Drasi is now available as an open-source project... To learn more and get started with Drasi, visit drasi...Get started with DrasiEvent-driven architectur...

Momentum, Large-Cap Growth Factors Still Leading This Year

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Betting against momentum and large-cap growth continues to be a losing proposition, at least in relative terms, for positioning US equity portfolios in 2024, based on a set of factor ETFs...Although all the major equity factors are posting year-to-date gains, the results vary widely...Meantime, the technical profile for the factor leader (MTUM) still looks strong... The gain is als...