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AIAnnouncing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge
AWS has launched Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables AI agents to ground responses in current web knowledge while keeping all data within customers' AWS environments. The service leverages Amazon's search infrastructure and combines web index data with structured knowledge graph information to provide more accurate responses than traditional web search, elimin
AIIntroducing the Cloudflare One stack: agent-powered deployment
Cloudflare has launched the Cloudflare One stack, an agent-powered toolkit designed to automate the configuration, deployment, and management of Zero Trust network architectures. The stack provides AI agents with structured knowledge and tools to handle complex migration tasks from legacy SASE vendors like Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks, reducing implementation timelines from months to hours. Buil
AI3 things leaders need to know from Microsoft Build 2026
Microsoft Build 2026 signals a shift from AI experimentation to production-scale deployment, emphasizing that competitive advantage comes from AI systems that understand your specific business context rather than generic tools. The announcements focus on three critical areas: building shared intelligence foundations through Microsoft IQ, creating integrated platforms for enterprise-scale agent dep
AIClaude Fable 5 available today in Microsoft Foundry: Powering the next era of autonomous agents
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, a frontier AI model designed for autonomous, multi-stage tasks, is now available in Microsoft Foundry, powering GitHub Copilot and Foundry Agent Service. The model excels at complex coding, research synthesis, and document-heavy workflows with enhanced vision capabilities, while Microsoft Foundry provides the enterprise-grade security, governance, and operational contro
AICanonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era
Canonical's Ubuntu Summit 26.04 showcased the company's strategic pivot toward AI integration, with founder Mark Shuttleworth announcing Workshop—a sandboxed LLM development environment using LXD containerization. The company is positioning Ubuntu for the "agentic revolution" with plans to embed AI capabilities across the desktop, particularly focusing on accessibility improvements like speech-to-
AINo longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel
Microsoft has introduced 'Autopilot,' a new category of autonomous AI agents that work continuously in the background without prompting, starting with Scout. Unlike Copilot's assistive approach, Scout operates across Microsoft 365 applications to proactively manage tasks like scheduling, deadline tracking, and meeting preparation, though it's currently in limited preview and raises security concer
AIAI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
Microsoft argues that enterprise AI success depends not on models alone, but on a comprehensive, integrated platform that enables building, deploying, governing, and continuously improving AI agents at scale. The company is positioning its unified stack—spanning Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and security tools—as a production-ready system for agentic workflows across business functions. This appro
AIHow we built Cloudflare's data platform and an AI agent on top of it
Cloudflare built Town Lake, a unified data analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI agent, to address data sprawl across disparate systems processing over 1 billion events per second. The lakehouse architecture combines Apache Trino, R2 storage with Apache Iceberg, and DataHub for metadata, enabling SQL queries across multiple data sources while reducing costs and complexity. Skipper provides a natu
AIIntroducing the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for building your agentic AI applications
AWS has launched the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine optimized for building AI agents. The service offers up to 60% cost savings through scale-to-zero capabilities, provisions resources in seconds (20x faster than previous generation), and scales from zero to thousands of requests per second automatically. It includes native integrations wi
AIAdvancing enterprise AI: New SAP on Azure announcements from SAP Sapphire 2026
Microsoft and SAP announced expanded AI and cloud collaboration at SAP Sapphire 2026, centered on embedding enterprise AI into core business operations through Azure. The partnership introduces Microsoft IQ as a shared intelligence layer and agent-to-agent integration between Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule, enabling AI systems to coordinate across workflows. These innovations aim to move ente
AIAWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, Agent Toolkit for AWS, and more (May 11, 2026)
AWS has introduced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in preview, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers, and web content through integrated Coinbase and Stripe wallets with session-level spending controls. Additional launches include the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite for building AI coding agents, AWS MCP Server reaching general availability, and Amazon Work
AIModernize your workflows: Amazon WorkSpaces now gives AI agents their own desktop (preview)
Amazon WorkSpaces now enables AI agents to securely operate desktop and legacy applications through managed virtual desktops in public preview, eliminating the need for API development or application modernization. The service supports industry-standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) and integrates with popular agent frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI, while maintaining enterprise security control
AIThe AWS MCP Server is now generally available
AWS has launched the AWS MCP Server, a managed Model Context Protocol server that provides AI agents and coding assistants with secure, authenticated access to AWS services through IAM credentials. The service addresses common issues with AI agents working on AWS, including outdated training data and overly permissive IAM policies, by offering real-time documentation access and a compact set of to