GitHub released Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into a single installable plugin, with support from AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel…
AWS made DynamoDB native vector search generally available on August 5, 2026, across all commercial regions and GovCloud, allowing embeddings to be stored and queried directly in DynamoDB tables via t…
CloudWise, a cloud cost optimization tool, has detailed its security model for AWS account access, emphasizing that its read-only monitoring role is scoped to specific actions and cannot make any writ…
OneAdvanced, a UK-based enterprise software provider serving over 10,000 customers, deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMake…
Anthropic will watermark text generated by Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026, and attach signed C2PA metadata to supported files, with markings applying worldwide for support…
Nebius Group, the AI-focused cloud infrastructure company trading on Nasdaq, reported a 514% increase in second-quarter cloud sales, driven by demand for GPU computing resources. The company's Q1 2026…
Retrieval and memory serve distinct roles in agentic AI systems, with retrieval pulling external knowledge and memory persisting an agent's own interactions, according to a technical explainer. The ar…
Only 5% of enterprises say their data is ready for AI, according to a recent survey, and the real number may be even lower, warns data expert and former BI consultant. In the AI era, data quality issu…
A US trade and technology expert, Nigel Cory, director of trade and technology at Crowell Global Advisors, criticized South Korean regulators for unevenly applying rules that disadvantage US companies…
Anthropic announced that its Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026, will support machine-readable marking on AI-generated content, including an invisible text watermark and signe…
An engineer argues that the term 'agent' has become so diluted that it is causing real engineering mistakes, and that most production agent deployments are narrow, purpose-built pipelines rather than …
A Hacker News user asks how companies with variable GPU compute needs secure capacity months in advance, noting that reserving risks underutilization while waiting risks price and availability spikes.…
A developer with 26 years of enterprise software experience has built an AI-powered integration testing flow that chains API calls, database queries, AWS services, and LLM validation into a single end…
IFood, Latin America's leading food delivery platform with over 80% market share in Brazil, built its agentic security platform on ClickHouse Cloud, achieving 9–16x faster queries at 40–50% of the cos…
AWS and OpenAI have made Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue, powered by GPT-5.6 Cyber and GPT-5.6 Sol respectively, available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock for cyber defense. The models are desi…
On July 30, 2026, AWS closed Amazon Bedrock Agents to new customers, renaming it Bedrock Agents Classic and permanently freezing its model catalog, while existing agents in allowlisted accounts contin…
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per forward pass, is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, deliv…
Amazon's Automated Reasoning Group (ARG), launched in 2016, has grown from a small research team into a production service processing billions of queries daily, using mathematical logic to prove the c…
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said the current AI boom is the fourth special period in computing history and 'bigger than the other three combined,' predicting that one-person companies could…
Blumira opened a pilot on August 11 for Hearth, an AI security command center that investigates across an organization's existing security tools without requiring a Blumira platform subscription. The …