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Tag: AI in Software Development
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. […]
Oracle Launches Fusion Claw, an OpenClaw-Inspired Runtime for Its Enterprise AI Apps
In most hospitals, someone has the job of making sure there are enough nurses on every floor for every shift, and on a bad morning, working that out can take the better part of a day. Oracle says its software can now do the same work in minutes and, if the hospital allows it, change […]
Okta Launches Blueprint Alliance to Set Standards for Securing Enterprise AI Agents
Unsanctioned agents. Borrowed credentials. Agents exceeding orders. These are the things that keep enterprise security teams up at night. Software vendors have shipped tools to rein them in, but Okta argues those efforts are piecemeal. It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. That’s why on Wednesday at its annual Oktane conference, the […]
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 […]
Salesforce Unveils ‘Trusted Enterprise AI Harness’ to Give AI Agents Business Context
Salesforce built its business on human users, but over the past couple of years, it’s been building for the digital ones. Since launching Agentforce in 2024, the company has invested in helping customers become what it calls “agentic enterprises”—firms where autonomous agents work alongside human employees. On Thursday, Salesforce introduced the latest step in its […]
AWS Scales Its Free Student Coding Program 12x, From 11 Universities to 132
Amazon Web Services is expanding its free student coding program twelvefold. On Tuesday, the company opened Kiro for Students to 121 more universities across 18 countries. It’s a jump from the 11 campuses it started with in the U.S. and Canada. Students at all 132 schools need only a university email and a one-minute SheerID […]
Why AWS Built Dogwood, an Open-Source Policy Language That Limits What AI Agents Can Do Over Time
You’ve tasked your AI agent to process vendor payments on your behalf. An invoice arrives one day, and the agent autonomously handles the transaction. It runs like clockwork—until the morning you find your bank account overdrawn. Digging in, you discover payments to vendors who never submitted an invoice and, in a few cases, never delivered […]
Introducing OnCue: A Live Newsroom for Your Own Site
One piece of entrepreneurial advice I picked up in Silicon Valley has stuck with me: Build something that solves a problem you have. It’s an idea that became my guiding principle as I set out on what I’ve been calling my “summer of building”—a run of months spent turning app concepts into working tools. It’s […]
OpenClaw Won. Big Tech Is Now Playing Its Game.
The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function calling took them a step further, allowing models to query databases or call APIs, but […]