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AWS Releases Free Emulator for Testing Apps Without Touching the Cloud
For years, developers building on Amazon Web Services have faced an expensive question before launch: Will their app actually work? Answering it usually meant testing against the real cloud, often with a dedicated account and a price tag of $10,000 or more. But AWS now offers an alternative option: a free emulator that mimics its […]
AWS Launches Bots in Kiro Crew, Giving Developers Long-Running AI Agents That Own a Job
Developers were promised that AI agents would take work off their plates, but for many, running a handful of agents in parallel has become its own job: checking which sessions finished, which stalled, and which quietly went off course. Amazon Web Services thinks the answer is to give each agent a specialty. Bots, a new […]
GitHub Bets AI Can Bring More People Into Coding While Pushing Pros Further
Somewhere in prehistory, someone figured out how to make fire, showed others, and watched the knowledge spread until anyone could summon a flame. Mario Rodriguez, GitHub’s chief product officer, considers it probably the first open source project on Earth, and he sees that same instinct to share and remix at the heart of everything his […]
Oracle Embeds OpenAI Into Its Business Software in What It Calls an Enterprise ‘Coming-Out Party’
Oracle has become one of OpenAI’s most important infrastructure partners. The AI company trained its GPT-6 Astra model at Oracle’s Abilene, Texas, data center site, the flagship campus of Stargate, the $500 billion data center venture OpenAI formed with Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX. Karan Batta, who runs product for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), described the […]
SAP Expands Tabular AI Lineup With RPT-2 and New Forecasting and Decision Models
For nearly a year, SAP has relied on a single general-purpose AI model to make predictions from business data rows and columns. At its annual TechEd conference this week, the company expanded that lineup with SAP-RPT-2, a next-generation model, and two specialized models for forecasting and decision-making. First introduced in November 2025, SAP’s Relational Pre-Trained […]
Amazon’s SageMaker Gives Developers More Control Over How They Train AI Models
Amazon Web Services (AWS) now lets machine learning engineers, applied researchers, and data scientists write the training code for their AI models while the company supplies the computing power. On Thursday, AWS made a feature called training sessions generally available in Amazon SageMaker, expanding a service that lets customers fine-tune open-weight models without managing hardware. […]
Ai2 Releases OlmoEarth v1.3 With Free Satellite Embeddings for the Entire Planet
For two years, gold miners moved through the rainforest along the edge of Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve, clearing more than 1,200 hectares around a settlement called La Pampa, according to Amazon Conservation’s MAAP monitoring program. In February 2019, the country’s government launched a crackdown to shut down the mining operations. Since then, conservationists have asked […]
AWS’s Well-Architected Agent Audits Your Cloud Setup and Hands Back the Code
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday released a public preview of its Well-Architected Agent, an AI service designed to examine a customer’s cloud infrastructure, compare it against the company’s standards for how systems should be built, and return specific fixes. AWS described it as working like an experienced cloud architect, which is a notable framing […]
AWS Releases Strands Decider 2B, a Small Model for an AI Agent’s Routine Decisions
In the 16 months since Amazon Web Services (AWS) released Strands Agents, its open-source SDK for building AI agents, the project has steadily grown beyond that original toolkit. Since then, the company has added a labs program for experimenting with new approaches to agentic AI and released a harness for running agents, among other things. […]
AWS Launches Strands Harness, an Agent That Brings Its Own Everything but the Model
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new tool for developers. On Monday, the company released its Strands harness, a ready-to-run agent that can search the web, run commands, edit files, remember what it did yesterday, and hand off work to helper agents. The only thing that’s missing is the intelligence to direct it. That’s the […]