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AWS has added new agent controls, runtime changes and a broader range of models to Bedrock and its developer tools. The practical shift is towards giving builders more ways to manage cost, permissions and the systems their agents can reach, alongside more choice about which models to run.
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Postman says its Agent Mode, used by a community of 40 million developers, became more reliable when the company stopped showing the AI every available tool at once. In its testing, tool-selection errors rose once the visible set exceeded about 40, a practical warning for anyone building agents…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic’s Python SDK v1.13.0 adds workflow and multi-agent configuration for Managed Agents, plus filtering by thread status. The update also adds types for unified Chat and Cowork analytics metrics, giving developers several new ways to configure and monitor agent workflows.
Allen Institute for AI Watch
Ai2 has replaced priority-based scheduling with GPU time budgets, fair-share allocation and rules for when workloads can be paused. The change is designed to give research teams a clearer share of scarce compute while keeping the cluster busy.
Watch Desk
A working paper’s central scenario puts the annual revenue needed to support the planned US AI data-centre build-out at about $3.55 trillion once the facilities are mature. The eye-catching figure is a modelled requirement, not a prediction that AI companies will actually earn that much.
Watch Desk
The US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and Biohub have signed an agreement to build an open data foundation for AI models of living systems. The plan pairs large-scale biological research with AI, laboratory automation and supercomputing, aiming to help researchers predict how cells respond…
Watch Desk
East Fishkill, New York, has imposed a three-year pause on large datacentres as residents oppose a proposed AI campus that could draw about one gigawatt of electricity. The dispute shows how the AI infrastructure boom is colliding with local planning, power demand and questions about who benefits.
Oracle Watch
Oracle has introduced Fusion Claw, a runtime for AI agents working across its Fusion business applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The pitch is a shift from AI helping with tasks to agents executing parts of finance, ERP and supply-chain work, with Oracle’s platform boundaries firmly in view.
Watch Desk
AI subscriptions remain a niche for US consumers, but the people who pay can spend heavily: a16z data put the top 1% of tracked AI spenders at an average of $903 a month. That gap offers a sharper picture of the consumer AI market than app rankings alone.
Watch Desk
AI tools that remove watermarks from school photographs are raising concerns about unpaid use and children’s privacy, according to people interviewed by the BBC. The account describes a practical clash: a quick edit may save a purchase, but it can involve uploading identifiable children’s images to a service…
Watch Desk
Xsight Labs has announced the E1L, a programmable data processing unit designed to bring networking, storage and security offload to power-constrained systems. Its key promise is a shared software stack spanning a low-power edge device and the company’s faster data-centre DPU, though the E1L is not expected to…
Watch Desk
Heathrow is extending its partnership with Adobe to personalise passenger information across its website and AI-powered search. The deal puts AI-assisted content management and visibility tools behind a website used by more than 50 million people a year, as the airport looks to reach travellers wherever they seek…
TSMC Watch
TSMC’s 15 October earnings call is approaching with analysts looking for clues about how AI demand will affect chip production, packaging capacity and future spending. One analyst cited by BigGo Finance expects TSMC’s AI revenue growth to nearly double next year, while forecasting more than 40% revenue growth…
NVIDIA Watch
Nvidia is planning to invest in d-Matrix, a startup building chips for AI inference, according to a report by The Information cited by Data Center Dynamics. The reported move would tie Nvidia more closely to a maker of rival accelerator designs, as the fight over how AI workloads…
Watch Desk
GitHub is redesigning its Git storage to handle rising traffic, including a surge linked to AI coding agents. The Register reports that early internal tests showed a 35-fold improvement in write performance, though GitHub has not given a migration timeline.
AMD Watch
AI agents are bringing CPUs back into the centre of the data-centre debate, and AMD has become one of the clearest beneficiaries in the market’s eyes. BigGo Finance reports that AMD first passed a $1 trillion market value on 21 September, amid a surge in expectations for the…
