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Quoting Ted Sanders

In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the…

AI agent memory

Here is what most people get wrong about AI memory: they save the chat transcript. That is not memory. That is a log. Real memory has to separate two different things: • Facts (your name, your budget) → exact values…

Why AI agents need their own identity & audit trails

Until now, if an AI agent dropped a database table or sent an email, the audit log showed your username because it borrowed your credentials. Senior Developer Relations Engineer Smitha Kolan explains why autonomous AI…

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch (MRP) for Oracle Database version 19c and 26ai. An MRP is a minor engine version that builds on a…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now available

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 (@aws/agentcore 1.0.0), rebuilt with faster startup, a consistent command structure, and support for more AgentCore resources. The CLI…

Evernote turns AI-driven discovery into paid subscriptions

Evernote used ChatGPT Ads to introduce its note-taking app to people working with AI. The team tracked how often free trials led to paid subscriptions.

Observing AWS Lambda durable functions with the Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter

Durable functions span many Lambda invocations, so per-invocation logs answer the wrong question. The Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter is an SDK plugin that emits one complete record per execution to any of 13…

Introducing the TPU agent suite (preview): Open source agents for PyTorch on Cloud TPU

Alongside TorchTPU, we’re releasing an early preview of the TPU agent suite on GitHub. Currently in preview for PyTorch inference workloads on Cloud TPUs, this open-source set of agents helps you onboard, profile, and…

Public endpoints for Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now in AWS GovCloud (US)

Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. A public endpoint lets you connect to your cache from a serverless function or any application running outside a…

How to make app plugins/extensions?

I don't know if this is possible. If I create an application, distributed as a closed-source native binary, can I also distribute plugins a separate binary files that extend the functionality of that app? Or is there…

AWS Lambda supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading for Lambda Managed Instances

AWS Lambda now supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) for lazy loading Event Functions packaged as Open Container Initiative (OCI) images running on Lambda Managed Instances. With SOCI support, Lambda fetches only the files…

Node.js 24.22.2 (LTS)

Introducing time series collections for the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Today, we're announcing support for time series collections on the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With time series collections, you can ingest, store, and analyze logs, metrics, traces, and event data…

Quick now supports smart approvals for agentic actions

Amazon Quick now supports smart approvals, a review layer that reduces unnecessary approval prompts while preserving human oversight of the actions that matter most. As agents take more actions on a user's behalf, such…

Amazon EKS Dashboard now provides fleet-wide visibility into certificate authority (CA) rotation

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announces certificate authority (CA) rotation visibility in the Amazon EKS Dashboard, giving you a consolidated view of CA rotation across your clusters. The Amazon…

AWS Lambda durable functions now exports live telemetry for execution insights

AWS Lambda announces the Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter plugin for Lambda durable functions. This new observability plugin captures the step-by-step history of your durable executions and sends them to one or more…

Amazon ECS Managed Instances adds cross-instance and Spot consolidation

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances introduces two infrastructure optimization updates: cross-instance and Spot consolidation. Cross-instance consolidation evaluates tasks running…

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Kubernetes Gateway API

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports the Kubernetes Gateway API, giving customers a standard, portable way to define how traffic reaches their applications. Customers can configure application load balancing using Gateway…

Node.js 26.13.0 (LTS)

GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in…