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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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Build multi-tenant agentic chat applications on enterprise data with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
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Build multi-tenant agentic chat applications on enterprise data with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

Learn how to build a multi-tenant agentic document chat application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, where users upload documents and immediately ask g…

Build observable enterprise agentic retrieval using Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with AWS CloudFormation
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Build observable enterprise agentic retrieval using Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with AWS CloudFormation

This post builds an enterprise agentic retrieval solution on the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. An agent reasons, routes ac…

Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry
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Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry

AWS Agent Registry is now generally available: a single, searchable, governed catalog for the agents, tools, skills, and custom resources across your organizati…

GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases
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GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.132 through v1.135, shipped throughout August 2026. These releases make it easier to organize agent sessions, review changes, a…

Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
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Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably…

Agency and Agents
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Agency and Agents

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories…

Copilot harness generally available in Copilot for JetBrains
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Copilot harness generally available in Copilot for JetBrains

This update brings Copilot harness to generally availability. You also get more stable account, model, and MCP experiences. What’s new Copilot harness gen…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update

August 2026 brought more control over how GitHub Copilot reasons, which models you use, how teams share specialized agents, and when you ask for a code review. …

Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal
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Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent ha…

Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities
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Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities

Copilot code review can now review two types of pull requests it didn’t cover before: Reviews requested automatically on pull requests authored by bots, i…

Workflow lab: Moving between design and code with agents
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Workflow lab: Moving between design and code with agents

Who let the agents in
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Who let the agents in

It’s you, and it’s getting easier…

Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now
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Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now

NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivers Vera CPU systems across the AI ecosystem as Vera begins shipping at scale.…

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
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OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each othe…

Your AI agents need performance management, too
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Your AI agents need performance management, too

People are at the heart of any technology transformation. Leading organizations are making changes now to help their talent—and their digital workers—thrive sid…

NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory
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NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory

The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastruct…

Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
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Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations decouples agent evaluation from the framework you build on. As long as your agent emits OpenTelemetry telemetry, the servic…

The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an O…

Natera’s intelligent appointment scheduling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Natera’s intelligent appointment scheduling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Natera built an automated voice agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets patients book mobile phlebotomy appointments through natural conversation.…

Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases
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Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in anot…

Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality
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Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality

Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning project. This first post in a two-part series covers the foundations of SFT data prep: qua…

FinOps for the AI era: New flexible billing and cost controls for agents
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FinOps for the AI era: New flexible billing and cost controls for agents

As AI takes on more complex work, business leaders face a new challenge: enabling rapid innovation using agents while protecting their margins and budgets. To g…

GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
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GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available

GitHub Copilot is more useful when it works with the tools, knowledge, and workflows your team already relies on. The new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot ap…

Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps
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Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally r…

AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR
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AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization…

Agents on your mobile
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Agents on your mobile

learn claude with claude…

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
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The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

Organizations are deploying agentic coding tools and coming to grips with the costs of AI while still seeking to capture more of the benefits that their workers…

OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing e…

Where AI agents pay off: A practical guide to the economics of agentic workflows
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Where AI agents pay off: A practical guide to the economics of agentic workflows

Early experience implementing agentic workflows highlights emerging trade-offs that frontline leaders need to understand.…

AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization
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AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization

Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered me…