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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedrock platform, unveiling a new agentic developer framework, releasing a desktop AI productivity tool called Amazon Quick, and expanding its Amazon Connect service from a single contact-center product into a family of four agentic AI solutions targeting supply chains, hiring, healthcare, and customer experience.The announce

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