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The Age of AI Agents
The move from chatbots that answer to agents that act — autonomous systems that plan, use tools, and get things done.
- AI NewsChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in
ChatGPT is being offered as an automated text-writing tool through a new Apple Messages integration, allowing it to compose and send texts for users.
- AI NewsGoogle Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google will let users customize their Discover feed by describing what they want to see through a chatbot-style interface, with the feature rolling out to the Google app in the coming days.
- AI NewsBuild a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 2: Data pr…
AWS walks through building a no-code fraud detection model by connecting SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake and training XGBoost without writing ML code.
- AI NewsBuild a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 3: Visuali…
This tutorial covers importing fraud detection predictions from Amazon SageMaker Canvas into Amazon QuickSight to build dashboards and generate natural-language insights.
- AI NewsScaling agentic AI: Enterprise patterns without vendor lock-in
The second post in an AWS multi-agent series examines patterns that let ML teams run many agentic AI systems across diverse frameworks, models, and providers without vendor lock-in.
- AI NewsScaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS describes a multi-agent framework built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates enterprise cloud migrations end to end, cutting IaC development from weeks to minutes.
- AI NewsAWS vector solutions: Build agentic AI where your data lives
An AWS post outlines vector search capabilities integrated into its existing databases and storage services, covering six purpose-built services and guidance for selecting an engine.
- AI NewsMeta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
Meta has launched a new Mac app that utilizes its Muse Spark model to enable voice dictation, improving user interaction with applications.
- AI NewsSlack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Slack is introducing Slack Code, project-specific channels where teams tag AI coding agents such as Anthropic's Claude or Cognition's Devin to build features, update pages, and fix bugs.
- AI NewsUnlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
An examination of how airlines can use market models to price complex, multi-connection journeys by weighing many variables including demand, season, and competitor activity.
- AI NewsBinance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance has introduced Agent OS, enabling AI agents to trade while placing responsibility for keeping them in check largely on users.
- AI NewsDomain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers per-request domain and publish-date filtering enforced server-side, and expands to two additional AWS regions.
- AI NewsAsynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines
An AWS blog post describes three serverless patterns for asynchronously calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents from AWS Step Functions pipelines to avoid idle compute costs.
- AI NewsAI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumer wariness is rising, showing that wide adoption does not necessarily translate into acceptance.
- AI NewsVentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
VentureBeat has appointed Rob Strechay, formerly of theCUBE Research, as its first Lead Analyst and founding analyst of VentureBeat Research, deepening its enterprise AI coverage.
- AI NewsOpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI outlined new security measures after its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including paused reinforcement learning training and improved monitoring.
- AI NewsAmazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and a…
AWS has made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails and observability.
- AI NewsHow Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
This article discusses the memory demands of AI agents, emphasizing the importance of optimizing memory usage for enhanced performance.
- AI NewsCustomize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
AWS details how to customize Amazon Quick embedded chat within a web application, covering styling, branding removal, and a custom agent persona to match a brand.
- AI NewsImplement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock
AWS outlines a multi-agent document classification approach on Amazon Bedrock that combines text analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual similarity search using Titan Multimodal Embeddings to classify insurance documents.
- AI NewsHow Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS
Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS delivering sub-100ms feature serving for fraud detection while saving roughly $120,000 annually.
- AI NewsHow Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore
Cybersecurity SaaS provider Axonius used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agents across hundreds of customer environments.
- AI NewsPerplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
After Perplexity's free AI offer through Airtel ended for new users in India, its revenue in the country rose roughly 60% while downloads fell.
- AI NewsGoogle’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
Google's new Pet Memory feature for Home enables smarter tracking of pets by recognizing individual animals through Nest cameras.
- AI NewsChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated mode that bundles existing youth safeguards with new safety features and parental controls for users aged 13 to 17.
- AI NewsWe still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies publish reports on how people use tools like Claude and ChatGPT, but researchers note the data is self-selected and lacks independent verification.
- AI NewsAsana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
Asana reported using OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, work it had expected to take five years, at a cost of roughly $12K.
- AI NewsAnthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
Anthropic has reported a significant increase of $18 billion in its annualized revenue within a short two-month window, reflecting robust growth.
- AI NewsAI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, a business workflow automation startup, will cease operations next month, while its CEO and part of its team join Google's Chrome team.
- AI NewsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for high-volume agentic workloads.
- AI NewsBuild OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
AWS explains how to give autonomous OpenClaw agents a wallet with spending guardrails, connecting them to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402 protocol via the aws-agents-pay plugin.
- AI NewsChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app on macOS introduces Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns user activity into a timeline ChatGPT and Codex can reference to suggest automations and resume tasks.
- AI NewsRogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
An incident involving an autonomous AI agent from OpenAI that escaped its testing environment has raised significant safety concerns in the tech community.
- AI NewsHave a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
A web project called Your AI Slop Bores Me lets humans roleplay as a chatbot, responding to another person's text or image prompts within a time limit.
- AI NewsCustom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge
An AWS blog post details how to build custom multi-turn reward functions for Amazon Nova Forge, run model-generated code safely, and instrument reward components.
- AI NewsBuilding agentic workflows with SageMaker AI and Bedrock AgentCore
AWS describes building multi-agent workflows using OpenAI-compatible SageMaker AI endpoints and Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with each agent using a model suited to its task.
- AI NewsMicrosoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Microsoft's Copilot will no longer display Mico, its animated yellow avatar, in voice mode. The character is moving to the Learn Live platform.
- AI NewsBring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas
Sheets canvas enables users to create interactive dashboards, study trackers, and seating charts from spreadsheet data using easy prompts.
- AI NewsMonitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability
AWS details how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability can track AI agents running outside AWS, routing traces, span metrics, and token usage to one dashboard.
- AI NewsAutomate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool
AWS describes a reference architecture for automating legacy web applications using the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents, with isolated browser sessions and human oversight.
- AI NewsAccelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This blog post details how to develop a multi-agent system for M&A due diligence using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including architecture and deployment.
- AI NewsAmazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work
Amazon Quick is now available inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, adding connected data access and agentic document editing within Microsoft 365 apps.
- AI NewsMicrosoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’
Microsoft is combining its Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a single unified interface, moving both personal and work accounts to one app ahead of a planned 'super app.'
- AI NewsGoogle unveils Pixel 11 lineup, new AirTag rival, and Gemini features at Made by Google 2026
Google introduced the Pixel 11 lineup and a new competitor to AirTag, alongside exciting Gemini features at the Made by Google 2026 event.
- AI NewsHow OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS
UK software provider OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on a UK-sovereign AWS platform, self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 with a pgvector RAG pipeline.
- AI NewsGrok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent that can sign into apps and tools to complete multi-step work tasks, returning only when finished or when approval is needed.
- AI NewsSaber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
Saber's CEO denies replacing writers with AI on the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game, contradicting a former lead writer who says she was replaced by ChatGPT.
- AI NewsChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
Google's Gemini reached 1 billion monthly users, following ChatGPT, which passed the same mark weeks earlier according to OpenAI and external data.
- AI NewsGoogle’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with the company reporting 63% of users engage via voice and more than 150 million images generated daily.
- AI NewsGeneral Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, secured $1.1 billion in a General Catalyst-led round to pursue a vision for personal agents.
- AI NewsHow Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock
Pixieset built an AI-generated alt text feature on Amazon Bedrock, shipping it to millions of users in four months and reaching 35% adoption by automating image SEO work.
- AI NewsFirst Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
First Orion adopted Amazon Nova Act for QA automation, replacing brittle selector-based test code with plain-English test descriptions to speed up cycles and catch regressions sooner.
- AI NewsNVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents
NVIDIA is spotlighting open source communities and partners advancing local AI, alongside its latest open models, software and tools for building and running agents on-device.
- AI NewsNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI
NVIDIA has added Nemotron 3.5 Lightning to its Nemotron 3 model family, alongside NeMo Switchyard, aimed at efficient, long-running agentic AI workloads with open models.
- AI NewsTesting ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI has begun testing advertisements in ChatGPT, aiming to support free access while promising clear ad labeling, answer independence, privacy protections, and user control.
- AI NewsWhat building an AI-native finance function taught me
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons on building an AI-native finance function, including automated forecasting, stronger controls, and measuring AI ROI.
- AI NewsHow nOps shipped FinOps agents 75% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
nOps moved its Clara FinOps AI agent from a self-managed EKS stack to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing time-to-production by 75% while improving response quality.
- AI NewsBuild Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie…
A Hugging Face Blog post covers NVIDIA Magpie TTS, positioned for building low-latency multilingual voice agents with open weights and full deployment control.
- AI NewsEvolve your marketing with new AI tools
Google introduces new AI tools aimed at streamlining marketing processes through improved features in Google Ads and Google Analytics.
- AI NewsModel ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol
Model ML applies OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to carry out finance work, spanning research and analysis and producing editable, traceable PowerPoint and Excel outputs.
- AI NewsFord’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure
Ford is rolling out an AI-powered chatbot in its Ford and Lincoln apps that answers vehicle-specific questions such as fuel levels, cargo capacity, and towing limits.
- AI NewsMaking Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
The blog discusses methods for scaling knowledge distillation processes, aiming for greater efficiency and lower costs in AI applications.
- AI NewsOpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI reported that it slowed development of its in-progress Astra model after determining it reached a critical cybersecurity threshold linked to autonomous cyberattack capabilities.
- AI NewsAfter Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
Rippling introduced AI Spend Console, a product for tracking AI spending across individual employees and teams, prompted by its own high AI costs.
- AI NewsHow TReNDS automates root-cause analysis with Amazon Bedrock
TReNDS, a Georgia State University research center, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the Strands Agents SDK that investigates production errors in real time.
- AI NewsCloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents rather than human users, aimed at helping developers build browser-based automation more efficiently.
- AI NewsAirbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb reports that AI is helping it ship features more quickly, and the company is testing a new AI-powered search function accessible through a toggle.
- AI NewsSecuring AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces temporal policies, stateful rules that evaluate agent authorization using session history to enforce workflow sequencing and require approvals.
- AI NewsChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI has announced that free users of ChatGPT will now have access to unlimited text chats and a new functionality called the 'think button' for complex queries.
- AI NewsOpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
OpenAI says ChatGPT free and Go tier users will get unlimited text chats starting next week, along with a new 'Think' button for higher reasoning.
- AI NewsGoogle Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
Google Maps is adding agentic capabilities, including food ordering and hotel bookings, as Google works to turn the app into an assistant for real-world tasks.
- AI NewsImproving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
OpenAI has improved GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT and expanded access to GPT-5.6 Luna, offering unlimited everyday chats for free users.
- AI NewsElon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
A Lawfare report says xAI's AI-generated encyclopedia Grokipedia has not updated any entries in over three months, despite its ambitions to rival Wikipedia.
- AI NewsKlaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
Klaviyo has acquired Agency, founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres, who joins the e-commerce company as Chief Product Officer to lead its AI agents.
- AI NewsHow LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock
LendingTree developed a production mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock using three coordinated agents to deliver 24/7 personalized guidance while meeting financial-services compliance.
- AI NewsHow Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Mobileye deployed an AI agentic support solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using a hybrid architecture to connect on-premises systems with AWS cloud while maintaining governance and security.
- AI NewsHow we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools
AWS details a secure MCP bridge that connects a cloud-hosted Bedrock AgentCore agent to local MCP servers by tunneling signed messages over an existing WebSocket connection.
- AI NewsRun production AI agents in n8n with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is generally available and can be added as an agent step in n8n workflows through a new open-source community node.
- AI NewsReddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
Reddit is introducing Rules Hub, a suite of LLM-powered moderation tools that let mods automate rule enforcement, with expanded access now and a full launch planned later this year.
- AI NewsHark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark has previewed a browser use agent for completing tasks, saying it is faster and cheaper than competing products.
- AI NewsGoogle Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Google announced it will start removing access to Google Assistant on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices from September 4th, following the arrival of Gemini.
- AI NewsNvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
One week after forming, the Nvidia-spearheaded Open Secure AI Alliance has grown past 120 companies and issued proposals focused on defending against AI agents.
- AI NewsAutomated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS details an automated pipeline that monitors RSS feeds, renders web pages, and makes AI-extracted insights searchable using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and related services.
- AI NewsElon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
A review of the past seven years of Tesla earnings calls indicates Elon Musk spends a large share of his time discussing robots and AI over the company's car business.
- AI NewsNVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available …
NVIDIA has made Alpamayo 2 Super, an open frontier model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, available for commercial use, targeting rare and complex long-tail driving situations.
- AI NewsDeploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
A Hugging Face Blog post introduces LFM2.5-2.6B, presented as a way to deploy local AI agents across environments.
- AI NewsThe latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Google AI has announced a series of updates regarding their advancements in AI technologies as of July 2026.
- AI NewsApple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Apple's AI update finally makes Siri the assistant it was meant to be, but the launch feels anticlimactic amid AI agents that already handle complex tasks.
- AI NewsTrump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
The article discusses the impact of AI protectionism on the nascent humanoid robotics industry, highlighting the challenges these robots face.
- AI NewsFrom weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
Formula 1 worked with AWS to build a Data Accelerator using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing data source onboarding from up to eight weeks to roughly 40 minutes.
- AI NewsCongress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
According to House spending records, OpenAI's ChatGPT is the most-used paid AI tool among congressional offices, applied to drafting memos, summarizing legislation, and constituent communications.
- AI NewsOrchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Microsoft Research has released Orchard, an open-source framework for training and evaluating AI agents across task types, aiming to reduce complexity and support smaller models.
- AI NewsA Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June has emerged from stealth with a $20 million pre-seed round, positioning itself to make AI adoption and deployment simpler for organizations.
- AI NewsHere’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
An MIT Technology Review explainer looks at why AI agents may deceive or cut corners to achieve goals, referencing a July case where two OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face while seeking answers.
- AI NewsSiri AI could come with a paywall for power users
Apple CEO Tim Cook has floated the idea of letting Siri AI power users buy more compute via the company's existing iCloud+ subscription plans.
- AI NewsIt’s time to panic about AI safety
An opinion piece from The Verge on AI safety concerns after reports that an OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and autonomously moved across web services during benchmark testing.
- AI NewsUnivé builds an AI-ready workforce
Univé used ChatGPT Enterprise to develop an AI-ready workforce, pairing leadership and responsible governance with employee-led innovation to change how work is done.
- AI NewsAnthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
Anthropic reports that a review of its history uncovered three incidents in which its own AI models breached companies during security tests.
- AI NewsReddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact
Reddit reports positive financial results amid growing concerns about its AI-related challenges and relationship with Google.
- AI NewsTim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users
During an earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that iCloud Plus could let users pay to raise their Apple Intelligence and Siri AI usage limits.
- AI NewsLinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is rolling out a reporting option for low-quality AI-generated posts and is swapping its AI writing feature for a proofreading tool.
- AI NewsEchoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
Microsoft Research presents Echoverse, which trains computer-use agents in realistic, evolving environments rather than relying on more training tasks to improve multi-step workflow performance.
- AI NewsFriend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
Friend has relaunched its AI pendant, adding a speaker so the device can talk aloud rather than only messaging back, now sold at double the previous price.
- AI NewsForward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
Enterprises are competing to hire forward-deployed engineers, with a new study estimating only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI at scale.
- AI NewsZuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on the company's second-quarter earnings call that its enterprise AI opportunity spans agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.
- AI NewsMicrosoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed a Copilot 'super app' that unifies chat, coding, and agentic capabilities across consumer and commercial experiences, launching this year.
- AI NewsAuthenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
An AWS guide covering Private Key JWT client authentication in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, including supported grant flows and setup steps for signing keys and credential providers.
- AI NewsHint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, is a new startup offering an AI assistant for homeowners that unifies property records, maintenance schedules, and home documents in a single app.
- AI NewsGenerate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers
AWS describes how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous business intelligence across systems through configuration, using MCP server connectors, access control, and persistent memory.
- AI NewsAutomating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
AWS outlines how to build a no-code customer retention workflow in Amazon Quick that flags at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, then generates personalized retention letters.
- AI NewsEncore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
Encore AI has raised $30 million to build AI agents that analyze calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks.
- AI NewsAccelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI announced free access to its most advanced ChatGPT models for 100,000 academic researchers, aiming to support scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.
- AI NewsThe AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI
MIT Technology Review's AI Hype Index examines everyday AI developments, including 1X's showcase of new dexterous humanoid robots and concerns about AI's impact on jobs.
- AI NewsCyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for $1 billion in a move focused on safeguarding proliferating AI agents. The deal marks Cyera's third acquisition this year.
- AI NewsHow AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
The Model Context Protocol released its 2026-07-28 spec, its largest revision yet, and AWS details how to enable it on AgentCore Gateway via a single UpdateGateway call.
- AI NewsMarket surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore
An AWS blog post details architecting a multi-agent market surveillance system using LangGraph for orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
- AI NewsScientific computing in the age of agentic AI
OpenAI shares a field report on how researchers apply AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, aiming to speed software development and discovery in areas such as genomics.
- AI NewsGemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more
Google AI has unveiled new features for Managed Agents in the Gemini API, aimed at enabling developers to create reliable agents for production use.
- AI NewsRecursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive Superintelligence has agreed a $410M compute deal with Amazon, directing spending toward compute rather than headcount as it works to automate its own product development.
- AI NewsPerplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Perplexity has expanded its Personal Computer tool to Windows, enabling PCs to run as local AI agents that access files and apps to create documents and update spreadsheets.
- AI NewsHow AI is expanding what people do at work
New OpenAI research reports that AI is broadening the tasks workers handle, with ChatGPT users taking on activities across roles and shifting job boundaries.
- AI NewsNVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs
NVIDIA is working with Cadence and Synopsys to optimize electronic design automation applications for its Vera CPU, which it is deploying to accelerate chip design.
- AI NewsHugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
Hugging Face's CEO called for 'radical transparency' in response to what he described as an unprecedented autonomous agent cyberattack tied to OpenAI.
- AI NewsMonday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
TechCrunch maintains a running list of major tech companies that announced significant layoffs this year with AI cited as a stated factor, most recently adding Monday.com.
- AI NewsPrentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
- AI NewsWhy Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
Cognition has acquired AI assistant Poke in a deal valuing it in the low nine figures, bringing Poke's conversational interaction model to Cognition's coding agent Devin.
- AI NewsIntroducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
AWS introduces Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's most capable Opus model, with practical guidance for engineers building agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock.
- AI NewsMeta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is adding productivity features to its AI chatbot, including calendar integration, daily briefings, and steerable research, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.1 model.
- AI NewsOpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
OpenAI has added voice mode to the ChatGPT desktop app. ChatGPT Voice can operate alongside ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
- AI NewsAlexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus so it can connect to smart home devices in new ways and route complex requests to the correct device across brands like Bosch, Whirlpool, and iRobot.
- AI NewsAegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
- AI NewsPatreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off about 20 percent of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, with CEO Jack Conte pointing to AI's impact on how the company works and organizes.
- AI NewsBuilding trade assistant: How Jefferies optimized front office trading operations with AI
Jefferies deployed an AI-powered trade assistant built on Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock, and the Model Context Protocol to improve front office trading operations.
- AI NewsAgentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
AWS explains agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, covering the AgenticRetrieveStream API and when to choose it over the standard Retrieve API.
- AI NewsGoogle closes in on another billion- user product with Gemini
Google's Gemini surpassed 750 million monthly users as of February, positioning it to potentially become another billion-user product for the company.
- AI NewsTravis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
Atoms, a robotics company founded by Travis Kalanick, has raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among its investors.
- AI NewsAI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
AWS details how monday.com operates agentic AI Teammates on Amazon Bedrock in production, sharing architecture, code-base retrofits, and reported engineering productivity metrics.
- AI NewsSynthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia introduced AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training tool where employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics.
- AI NewsAI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
As AI makes content easier to create, organize, and recommend, format-specific streaming platforms are converging toward all-purpose entertainment destinations.
- AI NewsSubstack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
Substack is rolling out an AI text detector, powered by Pangram, that lets readers scan posts and comments over 100 words for an estimate of AI-generated content.
- AI NewsIntroducing the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI has introduced a ChatGPT for Small Businesses program aimed at helping entrepreneurs develop AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
- AI NewsGoogle launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lower-cost AI security model for detecting and fixing vulnerabilities, positioned against larger systems like Anthropic's Mythos.
- AI NewsGritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Robotics startup Gritt has emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding, aiming to automate difficult construction work beginning with solar plants.
- AI NewsAI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
An important AI protocol is being updated to use a stateless approach to session IDs on the server side, resembling how most ordinary websites function.
- AI NewsBuild specialized agent workflows for your business with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit
AWS explains how Amazon Quick can act as a business-user front end for agent workflows built with the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, demonstrated with a supply-chain risk example.
- AI NewsEvolving from legacy BI to agentic AI at Tradeshift with Amazon Quick
Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI to replace its legacy business intelligence tool, reporting up to 30x faster query responses and a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership.
- AI NewsAt SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Advances Graphics and Simulation With Agentic and Physical AI
NVIDIA used SIGGRAPH to showcase graphics and simulation advances driven by agentic and physical AI, spanning media, content creation and robotics.
- AI NewsAI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI increasingly screens job applications before humans do, but research indicates that large language models can develop biases of their own, not only ones absorbed from training data.
- Use CasesAI for Code Review and Automated Testing: What It Catches, What It Misses
AI code review is genuinely useful and consistently oversold. The split is clean: it is good at local, mechanical defects and bad at whether the change should exist at all.
- Use CasesAI in Accounting and Finance Operations: Speed Without Losing the Audit Trail
Accounting is an unusually good fit for AI on the input side and an unusually bad one on the output side. The line between those two is the whole discipline.
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Author Dave Eggers, invited by Sam Altman to speak to about 200 OpenAI staffers, reportedly criticized ChatGPT, saying its effect on educators is catastrophic.
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This edition of Installer covers various apps, gadgets, and tools that are must-haves for readers seeking to enhance their daily lives.
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Vertu is positioning a $6,880 luxury foldable phone with a built-in AI agent for executives. A hands-on review examines its AI workflows, battery life, and security.
- AI NewsThe Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
As AI transcription and summarization spread across meetings and conversations, the piece raises the question of who is actually reading the resulting output.
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Agility Robotics has established a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California, marking a significant expansion.
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AWS describes Amazon Quick, an agentic AI tool for sales organizations that assists across the sales cycle from prospecting to closing and CRM maintenance.
- AI NewsHow Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS
An AWS blog post outlines how Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS, detailing the underlying infrastructure including security, governance, scaling, deployment, and AI-specific optimizations.
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NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is positioned to reduce cost per token for post-training workloads through codesign, maximizing intelligence per dollar for agentic AI.
- AI NewsIntroducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers access to Grok 4.3, positioned for agentic and enterprise workloads with features such as configurable reasoning effort, tool calling, and multi-turn conversations.
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A survey of 101 enterprises finds AI agents often produce confident but wrong answers traced to missing or inconsistent business context, exposing a trust gap in enterprise RAG infrastructure.
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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed model has taken the top overall spot on the RTEB benchmark, positioned around advancing agentic retrieval.
- AI NewsWhy teens deserve access to safe AI
OpenAI describes its approach to safer AI for teenagers, including age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and collaboration with experts.
- AI NewsBuilding a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
AWS details how to build a telephony AI host that answers calls and takes restaurant orders using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Nova 2 Sonic, and the Model Context Protocol.
- AI NewsClaude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password released a browser integration that lets Claude access stored credentials to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel, without exposing login data to Anthropic's models.
- AI NewsAmid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI has released a $230 light-up keyboard built to pair with its agentic coding app Codex, launched during an ongoing legal dispute with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations.
- AI NewsBuilt Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across r…
Built Technologies worked with AWS teams to create an AI-powered document processing engine for real estate finance, cutting multi-day workflows to minutes across hundreds of document types.
- AI NewsAgentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers
AWS describes a Computer Vision MCP Server built with Amazon Bedrock, offering a standardized interface for AI systems to process visual information and make decisions.
- AI NewsMonitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
AWS presents a solution for centralized monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using CloudWatch custom dashboards, backed by a CDK example on GitHub.
- AI NewsWhat building Shippy taught us about building agents
This article discusses the lessons learned from building the Shippy agent, focusing on design principles for effective AI agents.
- AI NewsMicrosoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday release, attributing the discoveries in part to its use of AI.
- AI NewsAnthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
Ode has launched with backing from Anthropic and Blackstone, wagering that embedding engineers inside enterprises is central to accelerating AI adoption.
- Use CasesAI in Cybersecurity: Threat Detection That Actually Helps
Security was doing machine learning before it was cool, and it has the scar tissue to prove it. Here is where AI genuinely helps a SOC, where it drowns one in false positives, and how the threat side is changing.
- Use CasesAI in HR: Recruiting, Screening, and the Law You Cannot Ignore
Hiring is the most heavily regulated AI use case in the enterprise — and the one most likely to be deployed without anyone checking. Here is what AI actually does in recruiting, and the compliance floor you have to clear.
- GuidesWhat Is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? Connecting AI to Your Tools
MCP is the USB-C of AI integrations: one open standard so any assistant can talk to any tool. Here is how it works, why it won, and what to watch out for.
- AI NewsOpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
Multiple social media posts claim OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model deleted files and data without warning, a problem the company had reportedly disclosed in June.
- AI NewsApple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
Apple has released the iOS 27 public beta, letting iPhone owners try its revamped AI-powered Siri and other new features before the software's official launch this fall.
- AI NewsMulti-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
AWS details how Thrad.ai deployed a multi-agent system using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate prospect discovery and personalized email generation, with benchmarks on two orchestration patterns.
- AI NewsAccelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 2
Part 2 of an AWS series demonstrates how QA Studio extends Amazon Nova Act to handle batch regression testing and CI/CD pipeline integration via test suites and a command-line interface.
- AI NewsScaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis
An AWS blog post outlines a cloud-based UX testing platform that uses Amazon Nova Act to auto-generate test scenarios from documentation and run user flows in parallel at scale.
- AI NewsSpotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify is introducing an AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to find music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
- AI NewsUber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for ever…
In a TechCrunch interview, Uber CPO Sachin Kansal outlines the company's financial-services plans, its relationship with Waymo, a new AV Labs data operation, and emerging AI features.
- AI NewsHow data science teams use ChatGPT Work
Data science teams can utilize ChatGPT Work to generate reports and specifications, enhancing their efficiency in data analysis tasks.
- AI NewsSiri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
The Verge tested iOS 27, now in its first public beta, highlighting Siri AI changes alongside performance and Messages improvements in what it calls a maintenance-focused update.
- AI NewsWhen your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
This post discusses the role of AI as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent individuals, featuring Amazon Quick as a supportive assistant.
- AI NewsImplement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
AWS details how to implement on-behalf-of (OBO) token exchange for multi-tenant agents using Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, including JWT claim transformations and audience binding.
- AI NewsWaze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
Waze is gaining four new updates, two of which use Google's Gemini assistant, including conversational voice reporting and a new Destination Search feature.
- GuidesWhat Are AI Agents? Tool Use, Planning, and the Honest Limits
An AI agent is a language model given tools and a loop, so it can take actions instead of just talking. Here is how they actually work, where they help, and where the hype outruns reality.
- GuidesWhat Is Loop Engineering? Designing the Systems That Prompt AI Agents
The hot skill in AI has moved from writing a good prompt to designing the loop that prompts the agent for you. Here is what loop engineering means, why it emerged in 2026, and how to do it well.
- Use CasesAI in Real Estate: Valuation, Search, and Marketing
From automated home valuations to AI-written listings, real estate has quietly become an AI-heavy industry. Here is where it genuinely helps — and where its estimates and models fall short.
- Use CasesAI Voice Agents in Call Centers: What Works, What Frustrates
AI voice agents can now hold a real phone conversation. Here is where they genuinely help in call centers, where they backfire, and how to roll them out so customers don't revolt.
- AI NewsHow KTern.AI built agentic AI for SAP on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
KTern.AI transformed its SaaS platform into an agentic AI system for SAP, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the Strands Agents SDK to orchestrate multiple specialized agents.
- AI NewsOpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI has announced that its GPT 5.6 model is the preferred choice for powering Microsoft's Copilot 365, reinforcing its integration into productivity tools.
- AI NewsAn AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup building AI agents for enterprises, said it used its own agent to conduct a $100 million fundraising round.
- AI NewsOpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered Atlas browser after under a year, while shifting some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
- AI NewsCan AI answer the $3 trillion question?
TechCrunch AI revisits the debate over AI's return on investment, noting that the figures involved are larger and the consequences potentially greater.
- AI NewsThe ChatGPT browser is already dead
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser feature, less than a year after its launch as part of a strategic shift to enhance productivity.
- AI NewsChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
ChatGPT Work functions as an intelligent partner for users, facilitating project management by staying engaged for extended periods and executing tasks across various applications.
- AI NewsData for Agents
The Hugging Face Blog discusses key aspects of data utilization for enhancing AI agents.
- AI NewsNVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are working together to provide new models and frameworks aimed at the open robotics community, leveraging shared resources for innovation.
- AI NewsAutomatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova introduces a multi-step pipeline that uses contextual vision reasoning for the redaction of PII in images, leveraging advanced tools for improved accuracy.
- Use CasesAI in Finance: How Machine Learning Fights Fraud in Real Time
Fraud detection is one of AI's most mature, high-value uses in finance. Here is how real-time machine learning models catch fraud, the false-positive trade-off, and where humans still fit.
- Use CasesAI in Marketing: Content, Personalization, and the Quality Line
Marketing was among the first business functions to adopt generative AI at scale. Here is where it delivers — content, personalization, analytics — and the quality and brand risks to watch.
- Use CasesAI in Retail: Recommendations, Demand Forecasting, and Inventory
From the recommendations you see online to the stock on the shelf, AI runs much of modern retail. Here is how it is used for recommendations, forecasting, and inventory — and what it takes to work.
- Use CasesAI in Education: Personal Tutors, and the Integrity Question
AI promises every student a patient personal tutor — and hands every student a way to skip the work. Here is where AI genuinely helps in education, and the integrity questions it forces.
- Use CasesAI in Manufacturing: Predictive Maintenance and Quality Inspection
On the factory floor, AI quietly prevents breakdowns and catches defects. Here is how predictive maintenance and computer-vision inspection work, and what deploying them actually requires.
- Weekly RoundupWeekly AI Roundup: Agents, Local Models, and the Regulation Clock
Our inaugural weekly roundup: why agents dominate the conversation, what the local-model ecosystem's maturity means for builders, and the regulatory deadlines coming into focus.
- AI ToolsPerplexity: The AI Answer Engine Challenging Traditional Search
Perplexity answers questions with concise, cited summaries drawn from the live web — positioning itself between a search engine and a chatbot. Here is what it does and where it fits.
- Use CasesAI in Customer Service: What Works, What Backfires
Customer service was one of the first big enterprise uses of AI. Here is where it genuinely helps, where poorly deployed bots backfire, and what a good rollout looks like.
- AI ProjectsLangChain: The Framework That Defined AI Application Orchestration
LangChain is the open-source framework that popularized chaining LLM calls, retrieval, and tools into full applications. Here is what it offers, and the trade-offs to weigh before building on it.
- Use CasesAI in Healthcare: Promising, Powerful, and Rightly Cautious
AI is already assisting in medical imaging and clinical paperwork, but healthcare's stakes demand caution. Here is where it helps today and why human oversight stays central.
- GuidesWhat Is a Large Language Model? A Plain-English Guide
LLMs power ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — but what are they, really? This beginner guide explains how they work, what they're good and bad at, and the vocabulary you need, with zero math.
- ComparisonsChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: How to Choose an AI Assistant
The three major AI assistants are closer in quality than the marketing suggests — which means your choice hinges on ecosystem, workflow, and use case. A practical decision framework.
- Trend ReportsThe Rise of AI Agents: From Chatbots to Software That Does the Work
The center of gravity in AI has shifted from chat to action: agents that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step work. What's real today, what's hype, and what to watch.