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AWS announces Amazon Nova 2 models in Amazon Bedrock

🤖AWS has introduced Amazon Nova 2, a next-generation family of foundation models now available in Amazon Bedrock. The release includes Nova 2 Lite, optimized for fast, cost-effective reasoning for everyday workloads, and Nova 2 Pro (Preview), designed for complex, multistep tasks. Both models support step-by-step reasoning, three thinking intensity levels, built-in tools such as code interpreter and web grounding, remote MCP tool support, and a one-million-token context window. Nova 2 Lite supports supervised fine-tuning on Bedrock and SageMaker; full fine-tuning is available on SageMaker. Nova 2 Pro is available in preview for Amazon Nova Forge customers with global cross-region inference.

Amazon Connect Adds MCP Support for AI Agents and Tools

🤖 Amazon Connect now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI-driven customer self-service and employee assistance agents to invoke standardized tools to fetch information and perform actions during interactions. Amazon Connect offers out-of-the-box MCP tools for tasks like updating contact attributes and retrieving case information, and allows flow modules to be exposed as MCP tools so business logic is reusable across deterministic and generative workflows. Organizations can also integrate custom or third-party tools via flow modules or the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to automate actions such as order lookups, refunds, and customer-record updates without human intervention.

OpenAI Tests ChatGPT-Powered Agent Builder Tool Preview

🧭 OpenAI is testing a visual Agent Builder that lets users assemble ChatGPT-powered agents by dropping and connecting node blocks in a flowchart. Templates like Customer service, Data enrichment, and Document comparison provide editable starting points, while users can also create flows from scratch. Agents are configurable with model choice, custom prompts, reasoning effort, and output format (text or JSON), and they can call tools and external services. Reported screenshots show support for MPC connectors such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and Dropbox; OpenAI plans to share more details at DevDay.

DeepSeek-V3.1 Available as Fully Managed in Bedrock

🔍 DeepSeek-V3.1 is now available as a fully managed foundation model in Amazon Bedrock, offering an open-weight option designed for enterprise deployment. The model supports a selectable 'thinking' mode for step-by-step analysis and a faster non-thinking mode for quicker replies, with improved multilingual accuracy and reduced hallucinations. Enhanced tool-calling, transparent reasoning, and strong coding and analytical performance make it well suited for building AI agents, automating workflows, and tackling complex technical tasks. DeepSeek-V3.1 is available in US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), and Europe (London, Stockholm).

How Cloudflare Runs More AI Models on Fewer GPUs with Omni

🤖 Cloudflare explains how Omni, an internal platform, consolidates many AI models onto fewer GPUs using lightweight process isolation, per-model Python virtual environments, and controlled GPU over-commitment. Omni’s scheduler spawns and manages model processes, isolates file systems with a FUSE-backed /proc/meminfo, and intercepts CUDA allocations to safely over-commit GPU RAM. The result is improved availability, lower latency, and reduced idle GPU waste.

Agent Factory: Enterprise Design Patterns for Agentic AI

🤖 Microsoft introduces the Agent Factory series to share best practices and design patterns for enterprise agentic AI that reasons, acts, and collaborates across workflows. The post outlines five core patterns—tool use, reflection, planning, multi-agent, and ReAct—and links them to real-world outcomes such as reduced proposal time and automated incident delivery. It stresses the need for a unified platform to manage security, identity, observability, and connectors. Azure AI Foundry is presented as a scalable end-to-end solution with flexible model choice, 1,400+ connectors, open protocols, and managed Entra Agent ID and RBAC.