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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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
Agent Plugins Explained: What the New AI Standard Actually Does
You may think of the agentic world as the Wild West, but over the past two years, technologists have been developing rules of the road. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol settled how agents access external tools. Google’s Agent2Agent and Cisco-backed AGNTCY took on the question of how agents reach each other. Now, there’s Agent Plugins, a […]
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 […]
Microsoft Debuts MAI-Thinking-1, Its First In-House Reasoning Model
For most of the generative AI era, Microsoft has been the most prominent buyer of someone else’s intelligence. Its Copilot stack runs on OpenAI’s GPT models. Azure customers reach for frontier reasoning through the partnership. The arrangement has worked, and it has also been a structural dependency that the company has spent the last year […]
Don’t Believe the Hype: AI Capabilities May Not Create Real-World Value
Kevin Scott always has something to say on the eve of Microsoft Build. The company’s chief technology officer shares his read on where technology is headed, typically in step with whatever the company is about to announce. This year, I joined executives, developers, and my fellow journalists in a downtown San Francisco bar as Scott […]
AWS Is Trying to Make Kiro the Most Trustworthy AI Coding Tool in the Room
In software development, the costliest mistake rarely lives in the code. It lives in the requirements that came before it. Typically, the issue arose because a developer interpreted the specs differently from the author—and that’s human-to-human. Imagine how much more challenging this can be when vibe-coding. That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) is updating its […]
Glean Wants Enterprises to Treat AI Agents Like Software—With a Full Development Lifecycle to Match
Enterprises have spent the past year building AI agents. Now they have to figure out what to do with them. To help, Glean has released its Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a framework that gives Chief Information Officers and IT leaders a repeatable path to scale agents across their organizations. “Agents are software. They need […]