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AWS publishes 38 open-source skills for more reliable healthcare AI agents
A 410-prompt evaluation found skill-equipped agents beat otherwise comparable baselines in 69.5% to 85.9% of comparisons, although results varied substantially by harness and baseline strength.
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AWS documents six Amazon Bedrock prompt-caching patterns for lower inference costs
Cached input can cost up to 90% less on a hit, but write premiums, minimum token thresholds and expiration determine the savings developers actually realize.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds managed OAuth consent portal for AI agents
The portal replaces customer-hosted session binding for AgentCore Gateway, while keeping each user’s provider grants separate and auditable through AWS CloudTrail.
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Google ADK Python 2.9.0 adds model failover, LiveKit voice support and YAML workflows
The release broadens agent deployment options, but changed resume semantics and stricter file-access rules require migration checks.
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How AWS designed lifecycle policies for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory
A nightly AWS workflow combines TTL expiration, relevance scoring, LLM-based consolidation, regression testing, and deletion controls to keep long-running agents’ memories useful, auditable, and manageable.
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Inside Jamf’s near-real-time controls for per-user Amazon Bedrock spending
Jamf’s production architecture turns Bedrock invocation logs into daily per-user cost estimates, then uses scheduled Lambda processing and IAM Customer Managed Policies to apply tiered model…
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Claude Fable 5.1 Arrives on Amazon Bedrock With New Data Controls
AWS says Anthropic’s latest Covered Model expands support for long-running coding, research, and enterprise tasks, while introducing mandatory review rules and a zero-data-retention option for eligible…
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