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How Cornerstone OnDemand cut database diagnosis by 78% with Amazon Bedrock
Cornerstone OnDemand built Orion AI, a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents, to turn database operations from reactive firefighting into proactive automation. A three-person team cut database diagnosis from 45 minutes to 10, a 78% reduction, in six months. See the design decisions other teams can reuse.
OpenSearch veterans launch Infino. Here’s why it matters for agent builders
Infino emerges from stealth with an open source retrieval layer that lets AI agents query one Parquet copy of data, replacing a fragmented data stack.
GPT-6.1 Sol vs. GPT-6 Astra: Same accuracy at 18% of the cost
OpenAI says its cheaper model nearly matches Astra. I tested it.
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OpenTelemetry Community Awards 2026
We are delighted to announce the 3rd annual OpenTelemetry Community Awards this year! This project and its newly minted status as a graduated CNCF project would not be possible without many, many awesome humans who contribute their time, knowledge, and skills to further develop and improve the field of observability.
What’s up, Docsy? Google’s docs project joins the Linux Foundation as AI agents become readers
Docsy already generates Markdown and llms.txt for AI tools. Next, the open source project wants to score how easily agents can read your docs.
The CNCF is graduating projects faster than ever. AI agents are helping with the due diligence
OpenAI scaled on Kubernetes years before ChatGPT. The CNCF’s Jonathan Bryce says AI and open source now feed each other, and agents are speeding it up.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
Off-the-shelf AI assistants forget you between conversations. This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, with AgentCore memory turning disposable chats into durable, structured knowledge you can retrieve with metadata filters.
Your phone’s vector index might be bigger than the AI model running it
Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 brings text, code, image, video and audio search to one on-device model, so developers can skip captioning and transcription.
Copilot tops GitHub’s own AI code review benchmark. An independent one tells a different story
With ReviewBench, GitHub wants a common yardstick for AI code reviewers. But the team behind it ran every rival’s initial test itself.
The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready?
On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024). Learn what this means for you, and how RFC 8509 trust anchor sentinels allow you to test whether your DNS resolver is ready for the rollover.
Mistral’s new AI tried to escape its test environment. In three weeks, anyone can download it
Mistral’s 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 tried to go beyond its testing environment. Experts get three weeks to probe it before open weights ship Oct. 27.
SAP acquires TechWolf to feed more context into its HR agents
SAP is buying TechWolf, whose skills graph tracks the work employees actually do, to ground its SuccessFactors HR agents and cut what they cost to run.
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The OpenTelemetry Java agent 3.0 is almost here — preview it today
The 2.32.0 release of the OpenTelemetry Java agent is now out and serves as the release candidate for 3.0, which is targeted for October 2026. Some behavior may still change before 3.0, but you can preview the new behavior now, before it becomes the default. 3.0 changes telemetry, configuration, and instrumentation defaults. Database and code conventions become stable defaults, messaging adopts newer conventions that are still experimental, and some capture settings and instrumentation defaults change. What to check covers each area.
“There is just not a room for error”: SAP is putting its AI agents in the back office
At Connect, SAP puts new Joule AI assistants to work in finance, HR, and supply chain, launches SAP Pay, and plans to acquire TechWolf.
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All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025), I want to share the services and chart-topping metrics
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
AWS invests in tools that help customers align with international standards for responsible AI governance. In this post, we explore the AI system impact assessment: what it is, how it improves enterprise-wide risk management, and how ISO/IEC 42005:2025 codifies best practices for conducting and documenting these assessments.
Best practices for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod administration and governance
Learn how to administer Amazon SageMaker HyperPod through Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio while preserving cluster governance. This post shows platform teams how to design infrastructure boundaries, govern access, allocate shared capacity, and operate HyperPod consistently across the organization, project, cluster, and workload control layers.
Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Spaces directly from SageMaker Studio
Data scientists and ML engineers can now create, configure, start, stop, and open Amazon SageMaker Spaces on SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from SageMaker Studio. Launch JupyterLab and Code Editor environments in a few clicks, without using command-line tools.
Build a voice travel concierge with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Managed Knowledge Base and Nova Sonic
Add a voice travel concierge to an airline app with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Nova Sonic for real-time speech, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for policy answers. Travelers change seats, check delays, and ask policy questions by voice, while the agent reaches your backend through MCP tools and confirms every change before it writes.
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Claude Code on Autopilot: Schedule It Once and Walk Away
#188: Part 4 - Claude Code 24/7
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