EP-338 Aws & Openai’s Strategic Partnership 🌐, Open-weight Models Go Public 🤖, Eu Ai Act’s Regulatory Push 🏛️

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, august 6th. explore the latest in tech:

• openai & aws collaboration: aws now offers openai models through amazon ai services like bedrock and sagemaker, enhancing generative ai integration for enterprises and challenging microsoft's cloud dominance.
• openai's new open-source models: introducing gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b on hugging face, these ai reasoning models mark openai's return to open source since gpt-2, offering robust performance despite occasional hallucinations.
• government endorsement: openai, google, and anthropic join the list of approved ai vendors for u.s. federal agencies, streamlining ai service contracts and supporting federal ai goals.
• eu ai act progress: europe's ai regulatory framework advances, balancing innovation with risk prevention, setting compliance deadlines, and drawing varied reactions from advocacy groups and tech companies.
• leadership at emed population health: linda yaccarino, known for her negotiation skills, steps in as ceo, bringing bold leadership to the ai-driven health platform focused on glp-1 medications.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow!