The archive
Systems that plan, use tools and act on your behalf.
AWS's monthly roundup adds OpenAI-powered Managed Agents in preview, a leaner AgentCore runtime, an open source Strands harness and a wave of new frontier models on Bedrock.
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Postman and AWS detail the architecture behind Agent Mode, including dynamic tool selection past a 40-tool accuracy cliff, schema-aware reads and tiered prompt caching on Amazon Bedrock.
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OpenAI's customer story credits GPT-6.1 Sol and Codex for a 76x cost drop in Asana's browser agent. The underlying numbers suggest prompt caching and history management did most of the work.
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Sophos says agents built through OpenAI's Daybreak program now resolve 52% of managed detection and response cases end-to-end, cutting average investigation time by 96%.
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An astrophysicist used a team of Claude agents to merge decades of UV space-telescope data and predict the third of the sky never observed. The human still caught the bug the agent reviewers missed.
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OpenAI's customer story on Pollo AI describes a two-tier routing setup across GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5, and claims users spend over 50% less time switching models.
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Harvard's Matthew Schwartz says he stopped asking Claude to act like a scientist and built a harness around what it does well. The results span 18 fields — and reveal where agents still fail.
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In Project Swap, 201 Anthropic staff sent Claude agents to barter books on a trading floor. The bargaining was fine; the preference elicitation was where most of the value leaked away.
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AWS published a reference architecture using Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and MCP to let one agent query data held in separate line-of-business accounts. The trade-offs sit in the authorization layer.
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Legal software vendor Aderant says a Lambda-and-Nova Lite workflow triaged 109 support tickets at roughly 96% routing accuracy for under $30 a month. The sample is small, but the design is instructive.
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Anthropic says ~950 Claude agents combed DNA databases for 21 hours and flagged a previously uncharacterized reverse transcriptase system. The function is still unknown, and the work is a preprint.
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OpenAI's customer story on Ringg claims 65% call resolution, 7M+ monthly connected calls and ~90% lower model costs. The routing architecture is more instructive than the numbers.
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