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ChatGPT Shopping: What It Means for Amazon & DTC Sellers

ChatGPT shopping is OpenAI’s product discovery experience inside ChatGPT, where shoppers describe what they want, compare products side by side, and finish the purchase on the merchant’s own site or app. It runs on product data that merchan

Prepare web content for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Crawl4AI

This post shows how to use Crawl4AI, an open source web crawler, as a content preparation layer for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, handling JavaScript rendering, selective extraction, and custom metadata enrichment before web content reach

Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale. This post shows how to use sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD) to transfer a

Agentic engineering intelligence with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build a multi-agent engineering assistant that compresses aerospace component substitution evaluation from days to minutes, using Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and the Strands Agents SDK to assemb

How Circle K accelerated DevOps incident triage to under 15 minutes with Amazon Bedrock

Circle K's DevOps team cut incident triage from 45-60 minutes to under 15 by building an agentic triage system on Amazon Bedrock. This post walks through the architecture, the initial Amazon Bedrock Flows implementation, the migration to Am

Amazon opens delivery network to all just as AI shopping agents reward the quickest

In 2026 Amazon Logistics has moved from an in-house network to a carrier for hire: any business can now buy its freight, warehousing and delivery; merchants using its fulfilment service can put Prime delivery on their own websites; and sell

Cross-border E-commerce Weekly: Amazon Q3 net sales up 12% year-over-year; TikTok tightens control over AI livestreams; SHEIN ramps up semi-managed merchant recruitment

Efficiency boosted by 770%! Amazon top sellers use AI to accelerate growth

AI has long permeated every link of product selection, copywriting, advertising, customer service, and supply chain.

Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams

This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform defaults, and operate a review cadence. Written for FinO

Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that keeps a Vite websit

Amazon Fills the Prescription ChatGPT Can’t

Amazon is turning the app people open to reorder paper towels into the place they handle a sore throat, a refill and a weight loss prescription. When releasing its third-quarter earnings results Thursday (Oct. 29), Amazon said the number of

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed

Amazon Wins 59% of AI-Assisted Purchases as Checkout Becomes the Prize

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is doing something that years of retail competition struggled to accomplish. It is teaching consumers to start shopping somewhere other than Amazon. The catch? AI just isn’t teaching them to stop buyi

Amazon's Q3 revenue growth slows, AWS grows nearly 40%, increased AI investment pressures cash flow

Amazon Puts a Million Robots Behind Its AI Ambitions

Amazon’s third-quarter earnings brought the same concern that shadowed Alphabet’s results a day earlier: whether enormous artificial intelligence investments will deliver enough profit and cash to dispel fears of a spending bubble. Thursday

Amazon Adds 100-Plus Capabilities to AI Shopping Assistant

Amazon has introduced several new capabilities for its Alexa for Shopping artificial intelligence assistant. “Our vision for Alexa for Shopping is to make every part of shopping as convenient as possible,” Rajiv Mehta, Amazon’s vice preside

How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction,

Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act

Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool. Tests are written in plain English and run on browsers managed by AWS, giving every p

How MoEngage turned over 400 APIs into agent tools with AgentCore Gateway

MoEngage turned roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 AWS Regions into permission-scoped agent tools with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. No per-service MCP servers, no public endpoints, and no 400-tool context bloat. See how OpenAPI spe

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding. This post explores its architecture and use cases, then shows how to deploy it on Amazon EKS, EKS Aut

From robot vacuums to AI glasses, Chinese smart hardware is blooming across multiple categories on Amazon Japan

Chinese smart hardware brands are accelerating their expansion into Japan, achieving multi-dimensional growth on Amazon Japan from mature categories to cutting-edge fields

Amazon Expands Shop Direct Catalog to Keep Shoppers Off AI Shopping Agents

Amazon is expanding its Shop Direct initiative, which lists products from brands that don’t sell on its site, in an effort to keep shoppers coming to its site rather than using outside personal artificial intelligence agents, The Informatio

US Foods Counts AI Gains in Seller Hours and Cases per Mile

A US Foods seller used to spend up to four hours preparing a proposal for a prospective restaurant, reading menus, spreadsheets and handwritten notes. A generative artificial intelligence tool now does that work, Amazon Web Services said in

Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control plane, per-Workstream cells, separate inferenc