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Monday, August 10, 2026 — Edition #31

AI Engineering

Amazon Bedrock Cuts OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna Prices by 80%, Terra by 20%

Effective July 30, 2026, AWS reduced on-demand inference pricing for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, with GPT-5.6 Terra prices cut 20%. The reductions align with OpenAI's first-party pricing changes and apply automatically across all regions.

Source: AWS News Blog

AI Engineering

ByteDance Releases Seedance 2.5 LLM; Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.2

ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 on August 8, 2026, while Meta released Muse Spark 1.2 on August 6. Alibaba also released Qwen Image 3.0 and 3.0 Pro variants on August 5, expanding the roster of open-weight and proprietary models available in August 2026.

Source: LLM Gateway

AWS & Cloud

AWS EC2 Capacity Block GPU Pricing Rose 20% on July 1; Second Hike in Six Months

AWS raised prices on EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by approximately 20% effective July 1, 2026, across six GPU instance families including new Blackwell hardware. This marks the second price increase in 2026 after a 15% raise in January, reflecting continued demand for GPU capacity in the AI buildout.

Source: Tech Insider

Certs & Career

AWS Retires Legacy Big Data Specialty Cert; New AI/ML Certs See Surge in Demand

AWS formally updated its certification program in April 2026, retiring several legacy specialty exams including older Big Data versions with June 30, 2026 sunset date. New AI-focused credentials like AI Practitioner, ML Engineer Associate, and GenAI Pro are seeing explosive demand as companies embed AI across operations.

Source: SPOTO AWS Certification Training

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