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Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference | Amazon Web Services

Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with global cross-Region inferencefrom both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia. Your application calls the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint in Asia Pacific (Sydney) or Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Amazon Bedrock routes the request to a supported commercial AWS Region for processing. This provides access to a broader capacity pool without requiring applications to manage destination Region routing. GPT-5.6 Sol is suited to demanding reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. Terra balances performance and cost for everyday production use. Luna provides fast, affordable inference for high-volume and latency-sensitive applications. All three models accept text and image inputs, generate text, and support context windows of up to 1 million tokens. With the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint, you can invoke these...

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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine IT help desk tasks, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The companies officially announced the acquisition on Tuesday but didn’t reveal terms of

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The Best Monitors to Buy in 2026

Monitor preferences can vary, regardless of how objective your testing is. For instance, I prioritize color accuracy and connection locations over sleek curves; you may feel the opposite. And while expensive monitors aren’t necessarily better than cheaper ones, you usually have to spend more or make compromises, especially for

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Amazon’s 2026 Holiday Deals Are About to Look Better Than They Are

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. If you've been shopping for an Amazon Kindle or smart speaker in the past week, you might've

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of its own. This year, the technology, implications, and players are so rapidly developing and widespread that we’re expanding the single AI stage into two! The AI Stage will continue

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