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Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! The past few days took me from Michigan to Texas. Here are two of…

In this post we show how to build a semantic layer on AWS using Stardog’s Semantic AI Application over Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift, and how to run a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that queries the layer to answer customer 360 questions across both sources without extract, transform, and load (ETL). The…

If it supports compatible standards, stronger institutions and wider tech access, it could reduce some costs of adoption WHEN representatives of 29 countries signed the agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (Waico) at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, the geography of Asian participation drew attention. Five Asean states – Indonesia, Malaysia,…

Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose new version of “The Odyssey” is currently conquering the box office, said it’s been “pretty encouraging” to see deep skepticism of AI, especially from young people. Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers, who publishes on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte. Travers brought up the legendary…

Google Images’s latest update appears to be taking some inspiration from the digital pinboard platform Pinterest. The company is celebrating Google Images’s 25th anniversary this week by looking back at its history and announcing a major redesign that turns the search engine into more of a personalized visual feed. It all started with a green…

As enterprises accelerate investments in generative and agentic AI, many are discovering that the infrastructure challenge isn’t limited to GPUs, model performance or cloud capacity. The physical systems underneath AI — especially power availability, data center capacity and regional infrastructure — are becoming central to how AI systems are designed, placed and operated. Organizations…