The Hallway Track

AI-agents

12 tracked signals on AI-agents.

DeepSeek’s New AI System Shouldn’t Be Possible

Two Minute Papers · Aug 26, 2026

DeepSeek released a self-modifying open-source agentic harness that extends itself on demand

“it's not you who rewrites the program, but the program rewrites itself”
Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 20, 2026

AWS launches natural language-to-Dogwood policy authoring for AI agent governance in Bedrock AgentCore

“Whatever your technical background, you can import policy documents written in natural language directly into the policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to safeguard your deployed agentic systems.”
What is RTX Spark?

NVIDIA GTC · Aug 05, 2026

NVIDIA RTX Spark is a 1-petaflop superchip for running advanced AI agents locally on laptops

“The reinvention of the personal computer has begun and it starts with the RTX Spark”
Agentic Development Security — Ezra Tanzer, Snyk

AI Engineer · Jul 20, 2026

Snyk's agentic security framing expanded from generated code to agent access and actions

“our customers started telling us that they were not only worried about the code that was being generated, they were also worried about what the agent had access to and then also the actions the agent might be taking”
SQL MCP Server: Bringing AI Agents to Your SQL Data

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Aug 17, 2026

Microsoft launches SQL MCP Server to connect AI agents directly to SQL databases

“we saw this proliferation of people trying to use AI models to build SQL queries maybe you heard the term NL to SQL right pretty cool in the beginning people showing demos oh look at me I can use an AI model and I can just put a prompt in there and it'll generate the query for me and all of a sudden people realize these queries were horrible”
From RL to IRL — Gaurav Mishra, Amazon AGI Lab

AI Engineer · Aug 14, 2026

Amazon AGI Lab researcher details failure modes of RL-trained agents in real-world deployment

“That's why we've been able to train really compelling coding agents using RL.”
What is Tool Calling?

Databricks Blog · Aug 06, 2026

Databricks explains tool calling as AI models interacting with external tools and APIs