AI agent
AI software that plans a task, uses tools and checks its own result.
A chatbot answers a question. An agent can carry out several steps on its own, such as searching, writing a file and sending it.
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Microsoft Outage Hits Outlook and Teams Worldwide, Raising Tech Reliance Concerns
A global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted email and office software across dozens of countries, halting operations for courts, healthcare providers, and law enforcement.
NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard and LiteLLM route coding AI models to cut dev costs
Developers can now route AI coding agent requests between high-capability and lower-cost models on Amazon Bedrock to lower the overall cost per solved task.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore V2 uses microVM snapshots to cut session startup times
AWS has updated the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime to V2, using microVM snapshots to speed up AI agent session starts and optimize memory use.