New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent
AWS ships an aws-ai-ml skill that gives Kiro, Claude Code and Codex inference-optimization knowledge for SageMaker.
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Agent tooling filled in the operational layer today: AWS shipped an inference-tuning skill for coding agents, and GitHub, Elastic and Akka published concrete ways to evaluate and deliver agent work.
On the model side, DeepSeek dominated coverage, and OpenAI detailed EU text watermarking and a new ChatGPT ad format.
Agent builders got four new pieces of plumbing today: a vendor skill for inference tuning, plus open-source memory, routing and execution-recording tools.
AWS ships an aws-ai-ml skill that gives Kiro, Claude Code and Codex inference-optimization knowledge for SageMaker.
Hindsight is an open-source memory system for AI agents, posted to Hacker News.
Recursant is an agent-aware model router for hybrid private/public inference; the author claims a 30% cut in agent spend.
Rashomon records what a coding agent actually did independently of its transcript, then compares the two.
Teams are publishing concrete evaluation and process designs for agents instead of ad-hoc checks.
GitHub launches ReviewBench, an open benchmark for code-review agents built on representative pull requests with multi-source ground truth.
Elastic describes unifying siloed agent evals into one framework that mixes LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic rules.
Akka ran spec-driven AI delivery across 65 open-source projects, measuring time and tokens against spec structure, context and guardrails.
InfoQ article argues LLM hallucinations in production are best fixed by treating the LLM stack as platform infrastructure.
Cloud and data vendors are filling in the operational layer around agents: promotion across environments, shared context and catalog portability.
Amazon Quick resources (agents, connectors, knowledge bases, flows) can now be promoted from dev to prod AWS accounts with an automated, auditable process.
Databricks explains how its Genie Ontology gives general-purpose agents business context for product development.
Databricks adds REGISTER and UNREGISTER APIs so tables can move between catalogs without lock-in.
Cloudflare's Birthday Week wrap-up lists 46 launches across open source, post-quantum security, AI agents and developer platform.
Chinese open-weight labs dominated the model coverage, from local-inference benchmarks to a harness aimed at agent lock-in.
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash (552B) reportedly reaches a peak 494 tokens/second on a home rig of four NVIDIA DGX Spark units.
DeepSeek Harness pairs an open plugin architecture with a Claude Code Mods bridge, positioned against agent lock-in.
A report puts China's AI gap with US rivals at about 3%, citing DeepSeek.
Zhipu's Hong Kong shares rose over 6% after GLM-5.3 drew endorsements from Cursor and Anthropic.
OpenAI detailed text watermarking under EU rules and a new ChatGPT ad format, both of which affect how builders ship on its platform.
OpenAI says EU text-provenance watermarks apply in specific cases, and that detection access starts with researchers.
OpenAI introduces a visual ad format in ChatGPT with expanded measurement, attribution partnerships and brand-suitability controls.
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