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The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

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How KPN is building an agentic AI engine for customer care
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How KPN is building an agentic AI engine for customer care

By transforming its contact center with agentic AI, the leading Dutch telecom company is strengthening quality, improving efficiency, and building AI capabiliti…

Build a healthcare appointment agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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Build a healthcare appointment agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, you will learn how to build a voice agent that handles appointment reminder conversations using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. …

Figma bets on human judgment at Config 2026 while the AI powering its canvas belongs to someone else
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Figma bets on human judgment at Config 2026 while the AI powering its canvas belongs to someone else

At Config 2026, Figma turned its canvas into a full workspace with code, animation, shaders, and AI agents. But the intelligence powering all of it is rented fr…

How Loka Built a Natural, Low-Latency Voice Agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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How Loka Built a Natural, Low-Latency Voice Agent with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we demonstrate the architecture and approach Loka used to solve a common frustration: robotic, slow voice assistants that cause customers to hang …

Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context
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Figma’s design agent, now with custom tools and greater context

OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility
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OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility

For a wheelchair user, a standard blue line on a map is often a broken promise. While platforms like OpenStreetMap (OSM) successfully capture where a path is, t…

MedBench v5: A Dynamic, Process-Oriented, and Hallucination-Aware Benchmark for Clinical Multimodal Models
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MedBench v5: A Dynamic, Process-Oriented, and Hallucination-Aware Benchmark for Clinical Multimodal Models

Existing medical AI benchmarks lack process visibility, atomic skill evaluation, and integrated hallucination detection. We introduce MedBench v5, a redesigned …

An Introduction to Causal Reinforcement Learning
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An Introduction to Causal Reinforcement Learning

Causal inference provides a set of principles and tools that allow one to combine data and knowledge about an environment to reason with questions of counterfac…

Deep Learning Approaches for 3D Medical Scene Completion: From Geometric Modeling to Generative Paradigms
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Deep Learning Approaches for 3D Medical Scene Completion: From Geometric Modeling to Generative Paradigms

Three-dimensional scene completion has evolved as a major problem in computer vision and robotics, and its applications are diverse, including autonomous naviga…

Escaping the Self-Confirmation Trap: An Execute-Distill-Verify Paradigm for Agentic Experience Learning
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Escaping the Self-Confirmation Trap: An Execute-Distill-Verify Paradigm for Agentic Experience Learning

Experience-driven self-evolution is critical for large language model (LLM) agents to improve through open-world interaction. However, existing experience learn…

Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories
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Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories

Generative AI coding agents are entering the open-source supply chain, yet their diverse and often invisible traces leave their prevalence poorly understood. We…

ReM-MoA: Reasoning Memory Sustains Mixture-of-Agents Scaling
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ReM-MoA: Reasoning Memory Sustains Mixture-of-Agents Scaling

Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) architectures improve inference-time scaling by organizing multiple LLM agents into layered reasoning pipelines. However, existing MoA v…

Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team
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Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team

The use of agentic systems to perform offensive security operations has moved from a theoretical possibility to a commoditized capability. However, while the co…

AGORA: An Archive-Grounded Benchmark for Agentic Workplace Document Reasoning
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AGORA: An Archive-Grounded Benchmark for Agentic Workplace Document Reasoning

Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents that reason over documents rather than answer from parametric knowledge. We study archive-grounded rea…

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving
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UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundam…

GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK
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GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK

The GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), so you can run agent sessions against your own model providers, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, M…

Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you will learn patterns for implementing production-ready multi-tenant systems using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will see these patterns demonst…

How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust
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How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust

Companies are asking how to build specialized AI that fits with the way their workflows actually run. The first wave of enterprise AI was about access. Companie…

GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation
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GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation

Before letting an agent operate over real context, can you prove it used the right evidence? GroundEval turns that question into a deterministic test of what th…

RaMem: Contextual Reinstatement for Long-term Agentic Memory
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RaMem: Contextual Reinstatement for Long-term Agentic Memory

Long-term memory has become increasingly important for LLM agents that operate across extended interactions and evolving task contexts. Recent memory systems ha…

AI Scientists as Engines of Discovery: A Case for Development within Reformed Institutions
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AI Scientists as Engines of Discovery: A Case for Development within Reformed Institutions

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems are beginning to assist, accelerate, and partially automate scientific discovery, performing tasks that span litera…

IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO
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IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO

Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financi…

Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning
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Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning

Multi-turn tool-using agents must coordinate long-horizon tool sequences while tracking dialogue state and policy constraints. Existing approaches often separat…

RS-Gen: A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Reasoning and Search-Augmented Image Generation
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RS-Gen: A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Reasoning and Search-Augmented Image Generation

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation and editing, particularly regarding instruction following and visual fidelity. However, when…

AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction
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AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction

AI agents are driving a new software paradigm, with the ability to autonomously call tools, extract information, manage memory, and complete tasks that span app…

Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference
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Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference

Long-running LLM agents keep valuable state resident on GPUs: KV caches, request schedulers, communication state, and sometimes online adapters. Losing this sta…

NVIDIA Brings Trusted, 24/7 AI Agents to Telecom Operations
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NVIDIA Brings Trusted, 24/7 AI Agents to Telecom Operations

Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that i…

Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents
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Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents. It replaces the old generateContent API and uses a simplified …

Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments
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Building pay-per-intelligence for AI agents: How Ampersend uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

In this post, you will learn how Ampersend built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. AI agents autonomously route …

New features and Claude as agent provider preview in JetBrains IDEs
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New features and Claude as agent provider preview in JetBrains IDEs

This update adds support for organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, lets you queue and steer messages in Copilot CLI sessions, introduces a new agent d…