The Knicks ended their slump in historic fashion on Wednesday, decimating the Nets by 54 points—the largest victory in franchise history. Meanwhile, Jaylen Brown’s 30-point, 10-rebound performance fueled the Celtics, and Donovan Mitchell kept the Cavs rolling with a win over Charlotte. Catch up on every key score, the night's top fantasy performers, and the must-see highlights from around the Association.

Slack transformed Spark operations on Amazon EMR by combining a custom metrics framework with generative AI-assisted tuning. Using tools such as Amazon Bedrock, Kafka, and Airflow, Slack captured rich telemetry and automated resource recommendations—yielding up to 50% cost reduction and significantly faster job performance.

The PGA TOUR and AWS have expanded their partnership to launch an AWS-powered favorite players hub at the 2026 Sony Open in Hawaii. The personalized feature delivers real-time stats, AI-generated storylines, and curated highlights for fans via the PGA TOUR app and website, enriching the fan experience with up-to-date content.

The 2026 AWS NBA Rivals Week runs Jan. 20–24, featuring nine nationally televised rivalry games across ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, and Prime. Highlights include Spurs vs. Rockets, Lakers vs. Nuggets, Lakers vs. Clippers, and Knicks vs. 76ers, with intense matchups and star showdowns set to light up mid-season competition.

AWS Bedrock is Amazon’s managed gateway to leading foundation models, enabling teams to build and scale generative AI applications without managing infrastructure. This introduction explains how Bedrock works, what models it supports, and how organizations can use it to accelerate AI development while maintaining enterprise security and control.

Amazon’s Uwem Ukpong has moved into a new role as vice president of AWS Industries, marking one of several notable leadership changes across the Pacific Northwest tech sector. The latest Tech Moves also includes executive updates from Microsoft, Seattle city government, AI startups, energy companies, and cloud-focused organizations.

An upcoming AWS PartnerCast will feature Treehouse Software demonstrating how enterprises can replicate mainframe data to AWS targets without disrupting legacy systems. Using Treehouse Dataflow Toolkit, a serverless solution built on AWS Lambda and Amazon MSK, customers enable scalable bulk and CDC data transfers to Snowflake and other AWS services.

At CES, leaders from NBCUniversal, AWS, Adobe, and WPP explored how AI is transforming advertising through real-time personalization and contextual targeting, while emphasizing responsible AI and strong IP protection as brands compete for audience attention.

AUMOVIO and AWS have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate autonomous driving development at scale. Using AWS cloud infrastructure and generative AI capabilities such as Amazon Bedrock, the collaboration streamlines validation workflows, accelerates safety testing, and supports large-scale deployment of autonomous trucking solutions.

AWS has released a new Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services Lens to help organizations design compliant hybrid workloads. The guidance addresses data sovereignty, governance, and automation across all six Well-Architected pillars, supporting regulated industries and enterprises balancing on-premises and cloud environments.