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Code & Agents AWS Machine Learning

Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AI summary AWS has published a reference architecture and deployable blueprint for running enterprise agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It follows a federated model: a central Platform team runs shared inference gateways, guardrails and approved templates, while Workstream teams own their agents inside isolated accounts. Each Workstream cell gets its own AgentCore Runtime, Memory and Gateway, so a team can deploy, roll back or retire agents without affecting others. Reference templates cover Strands, LangGraph and CrewAI, and an evaluation pipeline checks each agent before it reaches production.

Code & Agents AWS Machine Learning

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3

AI summary AWS has extended QA Studio, its reference solution for natural-language testing built on Amazon Nova Act, with two features aimed at large organizations. Applications group use cases and test suites under one owning team and report pass rate, failure counts and a 0–100 health score that is reduced for flaky tests, using Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics split by environment. Access is governed by five cumulative roles, from Viewer to Admin, managed through Amazon Cognito groups. Teams can share applications with others at view, execute or full level, but a user never gets more than their own role permits.

Code & Agents The Decoder

Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs

AI summary At its Android Dev Summit, Google said Android Studio Rabbit 2 can host more than 40 external coding agents, including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Agent, through a feature called "Bring Your Own Agent". An updated Android CLI let agents complete UI tasks 77 percent faster with up to three times fewer tokens in Google's internal tests. Google also added an alpha Agentic API built on Gemini Nano 4 for on-device agents and a Connected Apps Platform preview linking apps to the Gemini app and Search via MCP. With XREAL, it unveiled the XREAL AURA, Android XR glasses priced at $1,099 that ship from mid-November.

Code & Agents Simon Willison

GitHub Octoverse 2026

AI summary At GitHub Universe, executive Jay Parikh presented the company's annual Octoverse report, crediting agentic engineering for a sharp jump in activity. Monthly merged pull requests reached 220 million, roughly triple the level of less than a year earlier, while commits climbed past threefold to 7.38 billion a month, mostly in the second half of 2026. New repositories doubled to 30.3 million monthly. The report also adds breakdowns by industry, classified with a fine-tuned embedding model, and counts projects tied to interoperability or reverse engineering.

Code & Agents Simon Willison

The October inflection point for vibe game development

AI summary Simon Willison argues that October 2026 marked a turning point for building computer games through vibe coding, crediting Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 with a real grasp of fun gameplay. Over recent weeks he produced four browser games in HTML and JavaScript, among them Tree Appreciator, a fantasy RPG, and the real-time strategy title Battle Drones, which he released under the Apache 2.0 License. He says none of the projects took more than four hours of his own effort, and he judged GPT-6 Astra as not yet matching Opus 5.5 at making games enjoyable. He also noted that the wider gaming community remains hostile to AI-generated assets.

Code & Agents Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Tests Get Phone Number & QR Code To Scan

AI summary Microsoft Bing is experimenting with a phone icon in its desktop local pack that, when clicked, displays a business's number alongside a QR code users can scan to place a call. Khushal Bherwani noticed the feature and posted about it on X, noting it appeared as an extension in sponsored ads. Google introduced a comparable option in 2023.

Code & Agents The Decoder

AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

AI summary Security startup Cathedral, founded by former DOGE staff, used AI agents to get into Anthropic's internal sales, HR and IT systems through outside business software during the company's bug bounty program. Cathedral says its agents reached salary data, meeting transcripts and Slack messages in under twelve hours, while Anthropic says the attempts spanned several days and that source code, model weights and Claude chats stayed untouched. Anthropic closed the access points the same day, notified U.S. federal authorities and accused Cathedral of breaking program rules by reporting only one of two flaws it found. Former OpenAI employee Will Depue claims Cathedral obtained full Slack admin access, which Anthropic red teamer Logan Graham denies.

Code & Agents Simon Willison

Quoting Terk Terkowitz

AI summary Terk Terkowitz, writing in an update from Amazon engineering leadership about developers' role in the AI era, said engineers whose work gains nothing from today's AI tools should treat that as a result rather than a shortcoming. He urged them to record the reasons, discuss them with peers and their manager, and look for fixes. Explaining where AI falls short shows the judgement the company wants, he added. The quote was shared on 28 October 2026.

Code & Agents Meta Newsroom

Muse Is Now Available in Singapore: The World’s First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

AI summary Singapore users can now try Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, through muse.ai or the iOS and Android apps, and support for AI glasses is on the way. It connects to services like Gmail and Instagram, and local partners such as Grab, Shopee and Singapore Airlines, along with others, handle shopping, dining and travel, though some connector features will come later. Running inside Muse Secure VM, a cloud computer that keeps passwords and payment details out of its sight, the agent checks with users before taking steps such as making purchases. Paid subscriptions cover heavier use, while most features cost nothing.

Code & Agents Simon Willison

Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

AI summary Attendees at GitHub Universe received a conference badge that doubles as a small computer with a color display. Steve Francia used Gemini to get an NES emulator running on the device, then added support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles. With a ROM, the badge can play The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and flipping it over exposes touch buttons on its body that serve as game controls.

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