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AWS AgentCore CLI 1.0.0-rc.5 adds a large set of project-creation wizards, a new exec command and a more capable terminal interface. It is a release candidate, not a finished 1.0 launch, but it gives developers a much clearer preview of how AWS wants AgentCore projects to be built…
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AWS has opened a public preview of Well-Architected Agent, a generative AI service that analyses AWS environments and recommends ways to improve cost, security, performance and resilience. Its practical pitch is more than a list of findings: AWS says it can suggest fixes tailored to a customer’s goals…
Cerebras Watch
Cerebras says it achieved five times the inference capacity in early tests by separating prompt processing from token generation and using partner hardware for the first stage. The approach could let operators scale and tune each stage independently, rather than simply adding more of the same accelerator hardware.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has added live queries to AI-built apps in Amazon Quick, replacing frozen data snapshots with current results from governed QuickSight datasets. Each viewer’s existing row- and column-level permissions apply to the query, so the app can show different people different slices of the same data.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source model designed to handle routine, bounded choices inside AI agents. Rather than generating text, it scores available options, potentially leaving larger language models to handle the harder calls.
Epoch AI Watch
The cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has been falling by nearly half each quarter, according to a report from research firm Epoch AI. If that trend holds, capable AI could become cheaper quickly, putting pressure on software businesses built around today’s prices.
Watch Desk
An essay published by The Observer argues that AI research need not slow down, but that powerful models should face stronger checks before wider release. Its central proposal is a predictable testing process for safety, security and reliability, rather than treating research speed and public deployment as the…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA’s Ian Buck says the economics of AI infrastructure are increasingly about how much useful inference a whole data centre can deliver, not simply how many GPUs it contains. His account links that shift to power limits, faster responses for time-sensitive work and continual updates to deployed models.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is reshaping Copilot into a work hub, with coding tools, an AI agent and Office features brought into the assistant. The shift puts Microsoft’s familiar productivity apps inside its bet on AI-driven work, rather than simply adding more AI buttons to Word and Excel.
MLCommons Watch
MLCommons has published a first-draft taxonomy of five privacy risks for AI agents, from gathering more personal data than a task needs to losing track of consent and accountability. The framework gives developers and deployers a useful map of what to examine, but it does not yet rank…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a reference pattern for agents that react to events such as file uploads, rather than waiting for someone to open a chat and write a prompt. Its practical choice is whether each job waits for human approval or runs immediately, with a human called in…
Watch Desk
Google Research and Virginia Tech researchers have developed WikiSkill, a framework that turns an AI agent’s past successes and failures into reusable skills. In the researchers’ tests, it beat existing skill-evolution methods across five benchmarks, while keeping its growing store of experience out of the agent’s runtime prompt.
Salesforce Watch
Salesforce is recasting Slack as a shared workspace for AI agents, where colleagues can work alongside an agent and see its answers, activity and decisions together. The most concrete pieces are a Slackbot that can answer in shared channels using company information it is permitted to access, and…
Watch Desk
Normal Tech argues that AI safety debate is being squeezed into a choice between existential-risk warnings and suspicion of the people making them. Its essay makes a third case: take those warnings seriously, but ask whether the framing helps produce better policy.
AWS AI Watch
Amazon Payments used a contextual bandit to select personalised content across a three-stage customer acquisition funnel, AWS says. In a seven-week online test, one customer population saw a high single-digit relative lift in final-funnel conversion, while another saw no improvement.
