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Endava is redesigning its software delivery around AI agents using ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex.
AWS Pulse podcast introduces Amazon Quick's director of product to discuss agentic AI assistants for the workplace.
“the last six months have probably been the most exciting ever”
Microsoft Foundry introduces Foundry Managed Compute, a managed PaaS for deploying open-source and custom models.
“We have this construct called foundry managed compute which is think of it as a managed platform as a service where you just pick the GPUs.”
Test AI launched KCLI, a deterministic command-line validation layer for testing AI-generated code, usable by agents.
“The hard part is trust.”
Foundry Observability uses OpenTelemetry to unify tracing across any agent framework or cloud without rewriting agents.
“Today I'm going to show you how to answer those questions in one place, foundry observability, not by rewriting your agents into one agent framework, but by adopting open telemetry instrumentation with a few lines of code and without changing your existing agent logic.”
GitHub Actions usage surged from 2.8M to 850M jobs per week, driving new AI agentic-workflow tooling to break the commit-fail-commit cycle.
“That's a 60% increase almost in only a few months.”
Microsoft introduces Agent 365 to make enterprise agents discoverable, secure, observable, and governed.
“IDC predicts that by 2028 there will be 1.3 billion agents in organization.”
Professional AI-assisted coding needs a new term—'agentic engineering'—distinct from casual 'vibe coding,' with verification as the core challenge.
“when you fully give into the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists”
Microsoft Foundry distills production agent traces into smaller fine-tuned models that run cheaper and faster.
“the question is not just whether my agent works. It is about whether I can afford to run my agent a 100 million times”
On-device AI on Snapdragon can offload lightweight tasks from large cloud models to cut token costs.
“if you want to predict the future, you have to go and create it”
Fireworks AI argues open-weight models now match closed frontier models for most enterprise tasks at far lower cost.
“for most enterprise use cases, the gap between openw weight models and frontier closed models has collapsed”
Anyscale on Azure brings Ray-powered distributed AI compute to AKS for owning your AI stack at scale
“It has over 12 million downloads per week.”
AWS launches a three-episode livestream series guiding viewers through its serverless demonstrated micro-credential.
“we will navigate according to the winds of the chat”
Nadella reframes Microsoft's AI strategy as an ecosystem play where any company can build its own AI, not a single model or platform.
“We built in the last 15 months more Azure capacity than we built in the first 15 years.”
OpenAI launches a new ChatGPT memory system that retains user preferences and context across conversations.
Databricks now lets you send OpenTelemetry traces from any agent anywhere into Unity Catalog for governed, low-cost observability.
“with this new capability, you can use a couple lines of code to instrument an application or an agent and send open telemetry traces from the agent running anywhere, including outside of Databricks, on any stack with any framework, and put those traces over to Unity Catalog tables”
AWS engineers demo a methodology to trace surprise data transfer charges using VPC Flow Logs and DNS query correlation.
“you get an AWS bill and you look at your data transfer charges and you're like, "Why is it so high?”
Microsoft released MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model trained without third-party distillation, with a 109-page transparency-heavy report.
“hillclimbed from scratch”
Build 2026 hosts live-code a cloud-based collaborative markdown editor with AI instead of a game.
“What if we solved a real problem with AI folks instead of building snake games?”
Cerebras showcased its Wafer Scale Engine, a chip with 900,000 cores and 4 trillion transistors, at Microsoft Build.
“This is the world's biggest processor. 900,000 cores and 4 trillion transistors.”
Microsoft Foundry's agent tracing and evaluations hit GA and now extend to any agent framework and deployment target.
“Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck.”
Databricks introduces Apache Spark Real-Time Mode for low-latency real-time sessionization in gaming.
“In the gaming industry, every millisecond counts.”
AWS introduces Amazon Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution for generative AI workloads.
“we introduce Amazon Bedrock Ops Alert, a three-layer automated monitoring solution that proactively detects operational issues, dynamically adjusts alarm thresholds, classifies alarms by category, automatically creates context-aware support cases”