The retransmission battle between Scripps and DirecTV has escalated, with 54 local Scripps stations in 36 Nielsen-designated markets going dark as of 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. Both sides blamed the other for the blackout, which DirecTV noted comes just before several state and local primary elections in June, as well as the upcoming NBA […]

M.I.A. is suing Kid Cudi for $2.8 million after the British rapper was kicked off his Rebel Ragers Tour for “making offensive remarks” during her opening act. “Kid Cudi’s attempts to silence freedom of artistic expression and speech on his ‘Rebel Rager’s Tour’ cannot go unchallenged,” read a statement from M.I.A.’s team. “Kid Cudi claimed […]

Veteran R&B singer Peabo Bryson, best known for his duets from the Disney films “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast,” has suffered a stroke and is undergoing treatment, according to a statement from his rep to Variety on Sunday. “Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson — the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney […]

In all the years that I’ve produced Variety‘s Actors on Actors conversations, I’ve resisted the temptation to divulge how exactly the sausage gets made. When fans gripe on social media, for instance, about how our magazine didn’t pair two obviously compatible actors together, I haven’t taken to X to explain that we really tried, but […]

As with most operas, the story was never the primary selling point of “Carmen,” so to adapt it with the music heavily downplayed in favor of the narrative is an audacious move; refashioning this tale of murderous, hot-blooded amour fou as a children’s film, doubly so. But Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera has always been an […]

The Canadian Screen Awards return Sunday night with a bigger-than-usual spotlight, thanks in no small part to “Heated Rivalry,” whose breakout stars are expected to attend. The 2026 Canadian Screen Awards will air Sunday, May 31 at 8 p.m. ET from the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto. Andrew Phung hosts this year’s ceremony, which will […]

Matt Brown, star of the Discovery docudrama series “Alaskan Bush People,” has died. He was 43. Matt Brown’s death was announced by his brother, Bear, in a TikTok video posted Saturday night. Bear said his sibling’s body was found in a nearby river and that the cause of death looked like suicide. “This is an […]

As “The Way Home” nears the end, Hallmark will release a playlist featuring 30+ songs, including original music, covers and scores used throughout the four seasons. The news was announced on Sunday at the ATX TV Festival by stars Chyler Leigh, Evan Williams and Sadie Laflamme-Snow. On June 12, the playlist will be released on […]

This post demonstrates a comprehensive observability solution using Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards that provides a holistic view of both quality and quantity for LLMs served on Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with inference components.

Azercell Telecom LLC, Azerbaijan's leading telecommunications provider, wanted to build an Azerbaijani large language model (LLM) on Amazon SageMaker AI for telecom use cases and a customer-facing chatbot. The challenge: adapting foundation models (FMs) to a morphologically rich language with limited training data and no existing blueprint for efficient LLM training in Azerbaijani. In a […]

In this post, you learn how to build a custom portal with embedded SageMaker AI MLflow Apps UI. You walk through the architecture pattern behind a React front end paired with a Flask reverse proxy that handles AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) authentication, deploy the entire stack through the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a secure Flask-based MLflow proxy service that provides HTTPS access to Amazon SageMaker MLflow without requiring the MLflow SDK. This solution is for organizations undergoing cloud transformation who want to preserve their existing ML workflows while adopting cloud-native services.

This post combines learnings from LangChain’s work on evaluating deep agents and Anthropic’s guide to demystifying evals for AI agents into a practical guide. In this post, you will learn how to: 1) apply five evaluation patterns for deep agents, 2) build offline evaluations using pytest and LangSmith, and 3) configure online monitoring for production. […]

Agent evaluation is most powerful when you combine fast-moving online signals with stable offline baselines. To understand whether your agent is truly improving over time, you need a fixed benchmark alongside your changing real-world traffic. Managing test cases for evaluation baselines as a dataset in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore brings the discipline of versioned test fixtures […]

This post covers Opus 4.8's improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock.

This post demonstrates that integration in action by automating one of the most labor-intensive workflows in financial services: anti-money laundering (AML) alert triage. You will build a triage workflow using Amazon Quick Flows and Snowflake Cortex, connected through the Amazon Quick Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. In our testing environment, automated workflows built using Amazon […]