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The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A long-running AI agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. It can do this across many context windows and sandboxes, recover from failure, leave structured artifacts behind, and resume where it left off. For […]

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to devops tools, MCP servers are enabling powerful, AI-powered development and operations capabilities through natural language commands. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of databases. Most major database platforms now support agentic access through MCP servers. Using an MCP server for databases, you and your AI agent proxies can perform lookups, create and update data, and perform administrative tasks without you having to write SQL by hand. The MCP server could also guide your LLMs to write new code or build automations that align with your database schema, like its tables, structure, and fields, as well as embeddings, indexes, and metadata. It could also aid debugging by enabling faster queries to surface data issues or misconfigurations, along with plenty of other possible use ca

You can use the new console experience to browse and compare the latest AI models on Amazon Bedrock side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware documentation with auto-prefilled code snippets ready to copy and run.

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Apple will open the doors to developers at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) next week. Beyond a big push on AI and new OSes focused on stability and performance, what should developers expect? Mostly it’s about new APIs, Foundation Models, and App Intents; here’s what I’ve been able to figure out so far. Foundation Models Apple has been building new Apple Intelligence APIs. One way it is achieving this is to take models made with Google Gemini, then distill and shrink them to fit inside (and run on) its devices. The progression will be to introduce these as a new crop of Foundation models developers can use in their apps. There’s more: New APIs mean developers will be able to run Apple Intelligence tools such as summarization directly on the customer device, all offline, all private. Developers that use Apple’s standard text editing/entry views will gain access to improved Apple-developed tools inside their apps without custom-coding. Because intelligence takes place on the us

The rapid uptake of agentic AI has exposed a range of issues with our non-deterministic helpers. That’s mainly because AI agents are not people and don’t behave like people, even though they generally use the same APIs as humans. For one thing, they make many more queries than a human would, as they build the necessary context to deliver a response. Anecdotal data from companies that have worked with agents or who have users who access services through agents indicate that this can mean massive increases in API usage, which have affected availability. This increase is the result of automated requests flooding in and blocking calls and responses from APIs that worked perfectly well a year or so ago but now are struggling to cope with the load. A fundamental redesign of our APIs is necessary, but budgets, resourcing, and capacity make this hard to deliver overnight. What’s needed, then, is a way to manage agent interactions with APIs, treating agents as a new class of user, providing and

The rapid uptake of agentic AI has exposed a range of issues with our non-deterministic helpers. That’s mainly because AI agents are not people and don’t behave like people, even though they generally use the same APIs as humans. For one thing, they make many more queries than a human would, as they build the necessary context to deliver a response. Anecdotal data from companies that have worked with agents or who have users who access services through agents indicate that this can mean massive increases in API usage, which have affected availability. This increase is the result of automated requests flooding in and blocking calls and responses from APIs that worked perfectly well a year or so ago but now are struggling to cope with the load. A fundamental redesign of our APIs is necessary, but budgets, resourcing, and capacity make this hard to deliver overnight. What’s needed, then, is a way to manage agent interactions with APIs, treating agents as a new class of user, providing and