Technology
Amazon's Best Day in 11 Years: AWS Booms, Capex Hits $220B
AWS grew 37%, its fastest in 18 quarters, and the stock had its best day in 11 years — but the $5.75 EPS carries a $53 billion Anthropic asterisk.
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Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Grok: HIPAA BAA in July 2026
Five coding tools, five different answers on HIPAA BAA coverage — with conditions that matter and vendor language that changed within the past month.
AI
It’s Complicated: My First Project With GPT-5.6 Sol on Max Thinking
GPT-5.6 Sol turned a small utility into an enterprise-grade planning exercise, then reminded me that sophisticated agents still miss things.
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AWS Gives AI Agents Their Own Desktop to Run Legacy Apps
Amazon WorkSpaces now gives an AI agent its own cloud desktop to operate legacy apps that have no API — under a real login, with a full audit trail.
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OpenAI on Bedrock: 'Generally Available' Isn't Immediately Accessible
'Generally available' on Amazon Bedrock turned out not to mean 'accessible.' Calling OpenAI's GPT-5.5 from a standard AWS account took a support case and a nearly two-week wait — tested hands-on.
Healthcare IT
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI: BAA Coverage for Healthcare
Two of the three frontier-model coding CLIs are explicitly carved out of their vendor's HIPAA BAA, even when bundled into Enterprise seats. Here's what's actually buyable for healthcare today, what it costs at twenty-five seats, and why an individual Max plan plus AWS Bedrock might out-economize all three Enterprise tiers.
Technology
Cloud Apps Are Not Deploy-and-Forget
Today's fifteen-minute Node 24 upgrade is a reminder that cloud applications carry a maintenance calendar whether you planned for one or not.
Technology
Amazon Plans $42 Billion Bond Sale to Fund AI Buildout
Amazon is marketing up to $42 billion in bonds across dollar and euro markets — the largest corporate bond offering in recent memory — to fund its AI infrastructure expansion.
Technology
AWS Data Centers Are Not Bunkers
Iranian drones struck three AWS data centers in the first week of the Iran war. It's the first time a major cloud provider lost facilities to a military attack, and it should change how all of us think about disaster recovery.
Technology
The Cloud Database Landscape in 2026
A conversation about our cloud data strategy sent me down a rabbit hole. I asked Claude to help me map every database option across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond.