This week in AI updates: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server, DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI updates, and more (October 3, 2025)

The AgentCore MCP server offers built-in support for runtime, gateway integration, identity management, and agent memory.
GCN

AWS confirms New Zealand launch, promising data residency and lower latency

AWS officially launches New Zealand region with NZ$7.5bn investment, delivering local data residency, renewable energy, and 1 ...

NBA and AWS announce new multi-year partnership to power the next era of basketball innovation

As part of the partnership, the NBA and AWS will launch NBA Inside the Game powered by AWS, a new basketball intelligence ...
InfoWorld

How to deploy machine learning models with AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda provides a simple, scalable, and cost-effective solution for deploying AI models that eliminates the need for ...
InfoQ

AWS Introduces M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances for Faster Apple App Development

AWS has recently launched two new Mac instances (M4 and M4 Pro) built on Apple's latest M4 silicon. The new EC2 instances ...
CIO Dive

AWS taps BCG executive for EU sovereign cloud unit

Stéphane Israël will serve as managing director for the division, which is set to launch by the end of the year.
Security Boulevard

Beyond IPs: Why Your Next Firewall Ruleset Will be Written in Identity

Post 1Traditional ACLs built on IPs and ports can’t keep pace with cloud-native scale and ephemeral workloads.According to Security Boulevard, the future lies in identity-aware microsegmentation, ...