A year ago, Simon Willison wrote one of the cleanest definitions of an agent that has stuck around: An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal. That definition stuck because it describes what every production agent actually does. Kiro, Amazon Q Developer, Quick Agents, Codex, Claude Code: under the hood, they […]
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal
3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers Read More »
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed Read More »
On June 9, The Boston Globe released its 2026 “Tech Power Players” list, recognizing 50 influential local leaders in technology and business across Massachusetts. The list includes eight MIT affiliates including President Sally Kornbluth, Prof. Daniela Rus (director of CSAIL), Prof. Regina Barzilay, Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, Prof. Max Tegmark, Ana Bakshi (executive director of the Martin
MIT in the media: For the future of tech, “Massachusetts can absolutely lead” Read More »
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy Read More »
Today, we’re announcing inline payload support for Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference. Customers can now send inference payloads directly in the request body of the InvokeEndpointAsync API, removing the need to upload input data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) before each invocation. For payloads up to 128,000 bytes, this removes an entire network
Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference now supports inline request payloads Read More »
What if you came back from a full day of meetings and the busywork was already done? Stalled deals followed up on. Compliance changes summarized. Meeting prep written. Not because you multi-tasked, but because something was working in the background while you focused on other urgent priorities. Teams are already using Amazon Quick — an AI assistant that connects to your most-used apps
Get back hours every day with autonomous agents in Amazon Quick Read More »
Whether you’re playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect information. You know what cards you’re holding in the poker game, and you also know how much above the home’s asking price you can afford,
In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists Read More »
In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.
Operating a Humanoid With Your Body Is a Hot Job in China’s Hardware Capital Read More »
Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. Today, that context is scattered across data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, databases, and streams, and in institutional knowledge that has never been written down. You want to trust the decisions made by your AI agents, but that can’t happen until agents have context. Imagine what becomes possible
Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale Read More »
