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GitLab and AWS have announced an integrated offering combining GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, creating an AI-powered developer experience to accelerate software innovation and productivity. The integration aims to streamline software development workflows and enhance security across the development lifecycle.

According to the GitLab Global DevSecOps Report, 54% of individual contributors report their teams use up to 14 tools for software development, while only 17% of organizations have started tool consolidation efforts. The new integrated offering addresses this fragmentation by helping developers complete complex multi-step tasks from GitLab's unified DevSecOps platform.

The solution enables developers to transform feature ideas into merge-ready code, generate unit tests, provide AI-driven code quality and security reviews, and modernize Java codebases. The integrated offering is currently in preview for GitLab Ultimate tier customers on Self-Managed.

AWS announced new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock, its fully managed service for building generative AI applications. The key enhancements include: Automated Reasoning checks, the first AI safeguard preventing factual errors from hallucinations; multi-agent collaboration for orchestrating multiple AI agents in complex tasks; and Model Distillation for creating smaller, task-specific models.

The new Model Distillation feature enables up to 500% faster performance and 75% cost reduction while maintaining accuracy. Amazon Bedrock has seen its customer base grow 4.7x in the last year, with notable clients including Moody's, PwC, and Robin AI implementing these new capabilities.

Automated Reasoning checks helps validate factual responses and produces auditable outputs, particularly beneficial for regulated industries. The multi-agent collaboration feature allows companies to create specialized AI agents for specific tasks, while Model Distillation helps optimize models for the best combination of capabilities, accuracy, latency, and cost.

AWS has announced new database capabilities including Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database offering 99.999% multi-Region availability and strong consistency. Aurora DSQL provides 4x faster reads and writes compared to other distributed SQL databases, with PostgreSQL compatibility and zero infrastructure management.

Additionally, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency, ensuring applications always read the latest data without code changes. These innovations leverage Amazon Time Sync Service technology to synchronize operations globally with microsecond accuracy.

AWS announced the general availability of Trainium2-powered Amazon EC2 instances and new Trn2 UltraServers. The new Trn2 instances offer 30-40% better price performance than current GPU-based EC2 instances, featuring 16 Trainium2 chips providing 20.8 peak petaflops of compute. Trn2 UltraServers connect four Trn2 servers with NeuronLink interconnect, scaling up to 83.2 peak petaflops. AWS also unveiled Trainium3, their next-generation AI chip expected to be 4x more performant than Trn2 UltraServers, with availability planned for late 2025.

Amazon Web Services announced new Amazon S3 features making it the first cloud object store with fully-managed Apache Iceberg support. The key innovations include Amazon S3 Tables, delivering up to 3x faster query performance and 10x higher transactions per second for analytics workloads, and Amazon S3 Metadata, which automatically generates queryable metadata in near real-time.

S3 Tables introduces a new bucket type optimized for tabular data as Iceberg tables, while S3 Metadata streamlines data discovery by capturing and storing object metadata in S3 Tables. These features are Apache Iceberg table-compatible, allowing customers to query data using AWS analytics services and open source tools.

Twelve Labs, a startup specializing in multimodal AI for video content understanding, is partnering with AWS to enhance video searchability. The company's foundation models enable natural language searches within videos, analyzing actions, objects, and sounds. Using AWS technologies, Twelve Labs has achieved up to 10% faster training speeds while reducing costs by over 15%.

Their Marengo and Pegasus models can provide text summaries and audio translations in over 100 languages, making video content searchable and accessible. The technology allows developers to create applications for semantic video search across media, entertainment, gaming, and sports industries, enabling precise moment retrieval and automated highlight reel creation.

LG AI Research has developed EXAONEPath, a new pathology foundation model for cancer diagnosis, using AWS cloud infrastructure. The AI model can analyze microscopic tissue samples with 86.1% accuracy across six benchmarks, reducing genetic testing time from two weeks to under one minute. Using AWS services, including Amazon SageMaker and NVIDIA GPUs, LG AI Research trained the model on 285 million data points and 35,000 tissue samples, cutting data management costs by 35% and data preparation time by 95%. The model is part of EXAONE, LG's 300-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model.

IMDb has revealed its most popular movies, shows, and stars of 2024, based on actual page views from over 250 million monthly visitors. Deadpool & Wolverine topped the movie list, while True Detective led TV shows. Sydney Sweeney emerged as the Most Popular Star, with Glen Powell named Breakout Star of 2024. The year's top movies featured both franchise continuations like Dune: Part Two and original films. Streaming series debuts were notably successful, including The Penguin, Fallout, and Shogun.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its most successful Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday holiday shopping event ever, spanning from November 21 to December 2. The event saw record sales and a record number of items sold, with customers saving billions of dollars. Millions of Echo and Fire TV devices were purchased, with Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K among the best-sellers. Popular categories in the U.S. included Electronics, Toys, and Beauty, featuring items like Beats headphones, Samsung TVs, Barbie, and Shark vacuums.

Independent sellers, mostly small and medium-sized businesses, also had their largest event ever, accounting for over 60% of sales. Amazon continues to offer millions more deals worldwide with fast delivery options for Prime members. An independent study confirmed Amazon's prices were, on average, 14% lower than other leading U.S. retailers entering the holiday season. Customers can continue to find deals on a wide range of products through December 24.