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Tips and prompts for developers using the Cortex MCP

AI coding assistants are already transforming how developers work, helping them write code faster, answer tough questions, and automate repetitive tasks. It’s exciting, it’s powerful… and it’s just the beginning. Cortex MCP connects your AI assistant directly to your live service data, ownership, and organizational standards so it can give accurate, context-rich answers right in your IDE.

Amazon SageMaker Pricing Guide: 2025 Costs (And Savings)

Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to prepare data for machine learning (ML) and then train, deploy, and modify ML models. SageMaker is a fully managed service that automates much of the ML lifecycle. So, if you want a single partner to help you through all stages of your Artificial Intelligence (AI) lifecycle, SageMaker might be the answer. Perhaps more important for this post is the promise that Amazon SageMaker can reduce your machine learning model costs. But does SageMaker pricing reflect this?

What is an AI Agent? Understanding the Future of Intelligent Automation

In today's fast-paced digital world, the term AI agent is becoming increasingly common - but what does it really mean? Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a business owner, or just curious about artificial intelligence, understanding AI agents can help you stay ahead of the curve.

How Thundr Uses AI to Create High Quality 1-on-1 Chats

People desire honest, interesting, and personal communication in today's fast-paced digital world. Most of the time, traditional online chat services fail to provide users with the depth and connections they desire. Thundr is different from other companies in that it utilizes cutting-edge AI to enhance discussions for both parties. The program makes every connection more engaging than a random chat service by placing a strong emphasis on personalization and user safety. Integrating these features on the platform enables this improvement.

Why Every Instagram User Needs a Reliable IG Downloader in 2025

Instagram has transformed from a simple photo-sharing app into a comprehensive content ecosystem where 2 billion users share over 95 million photos and videos daily. With this explosion of creative content, the need for reliable downloading tools has never been greater. An effective ig downloader becomes essential for users who want to preserve meaningful content, create backups, or repurpose materials for their own projects.

Is My Paper Human? The Top 6 AI Checkers for Students to Verify Their Work

AI detectors are everywhere in classrooms and submission portals. Students need clear, practical guidance that explains strengths and limitations. Use this guide to pick a checker and interpret results responsibly. You will learn how these systems work at a high level. You will also see a realistic look at accuracy, false positives, and appeals. Each tool section ends with a quick verdict for fast decisions.

Using Claude to power up your onboarding

I joined incident.io about ten weeks ago, having been in my previous role for four and a half years. Being a new starter was an unusual feeling for me, and there's been a huge amount to learn; but by lunch on my second day (!) I had started shipping value to our customers. A large part of hitting the ground running has been having a colleague alongside me, who I can pester with questions, who doesn’t get offended when I write in all capitals, and often praises me for being absolutely right!

Real-Time Analytics Made Simple with Kafka and Iceberg

AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

AI for Grafana onboarding: Get your teams started quicker with Grafana Assistant

Grafana puts a powerful set of observability capabilities right at your fingertips, but onboarding entire teams to the sophisticated platform is often a nontrivial exercise—one that can slow adoption and prevent organizations from getting immediate value. We want to make the process as frictionless as possible, which is why we’re excited to tell you that Grafana Assistant is now available in public preview to all Grafana Cloud users.

AI in observability at Grafana Labs: Making observability easy and accessible for everyone

Did you know that observability has been around for more than six decades? It all goes back to a Hungarian-American inventor named Rudolf Kálmán who thought about how external outputs could measure the internal state of a machine. Kálmán wrote about monitoring single-input single-output systems, but our demands are very different today. We need to observe monoliths, microservices, clusters, pods, regions, and many more.