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AWS Makes Its Contact-Center AI Designer Generally Available With Rules Beside the Model

The product separates flexible conversation from fixed decisions such as identity checks and eligibility, while linking voice calls to on-screen choices and preserving context during a transfer. AWS has made agentic CX designer generally available in Amazon Connect Customer, giving contact-center teams a no-code canvas that places generative AI conversation steps alongside fixed business-rule steps.

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Anthropic Gives Retailers Claude Agent Blueprints, With Checkout Still Off-Limits

The new guidance packages shopper recommendations and merchant decision support for a holiday-season retail push, while keeping agents from completing purchases. Anthropic has released blueprints for building shopper and merchant agents on Claude, giving retail, travel and ticketing companies guidance for systems that can recommend products, fill carts and advise internal teams.

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World Labs Launches Atlas for 1440p Camera-Controlled Video, 3D Worlds and Robot Views

The new world model is designed to replace handoffs among video, reconstruction and simulation tools. Its performance evidence is company-run, and selected partners will get the first chance to test it on real work. World Labs has launched Atlas, a model that promises to turn a few reference images into controlled 1440p video, explicit 3D scenes and simulated views from a robot’s cameras.

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Oracle Adds AI Studio Skill to Fusion 26C, Deploying Pro-Code Agents Inside Fusion Apps

The new pro-code path is built around where an agentic application runs: Oracle is tying developer tools to Fusion’s existing data, workflow, security, and audit infrastructure. Oracle is making AI Studio Skill available in Fusion release 26C, giving developers a pro-code route to create agentic applications that deploy directly inside Fusion Apps. The target is a full application rather than an isolated agent.

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OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks. OpenAI has opened a 10-day WebMCP Challenge around an experimental web standard that lets a site define structured actions an AI agent can use directly. That is a different model from asking an agent to treat a page primarily as a visual workspace.

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Harvard Uses 7 AI Faculty Avatars in a $699 Founder Bootcamp, While Keeping Live Advice Human

The program makes repeatable startup practice available on demand, but reserves live expert sessions and investor access for the human side of the experience. Harvard Business School is putting AI versions of seven volunteer faculty members into an eight-week, $699 founder bootcamp. Practice before the consequential conversation Foundry is Harvard Business School’s AI-native digital workspace for entrepreneurs.

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Harness Launches Agent-Ready Repository and AI Review for High-Volume Code Changes

The products pair high-volume repository operations with inherited permissions and merge-time checks, but Harness still places the final decision to ship with people. Harness has launched an agent-ready code repository and AI code-review product built for a delivery problem that emerges after code generation: agents can create changes faster than conventional pull-request workflows can absorb.

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AWS Publishes Two AgentCore Paths to Query Cross-Account Knowledge Bases

The useful constraint is not simply access across AWS accounts: generated answers require an assumed role, while many workloads may not need an agent at all. AWS has published two generally available AgentCore patterns for agents that need answers from a Bedrock Knowledge Base held in a separate AWS account. In AWS’s example flow, a user submits a natural-language question through an API or Streamlit interface.

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Foxglove Adds Cosmos Data Search as Robot Builders Struggle for Reliable Work

Foxglove’s new search tool is meant to speed the data and evaluation loop, while robot makers still face a harder test: dependable commercial performance. The race to build broadly useful robots is colliding with a more immediate test: turning improving physical capabilities into reliable, value-creating commercial work. Foxglove built the product on Nvidia ’s open-weight Cosmos world model.

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Harvard Uses 7 AI Faculty Avatars in a $699 Founder Bootcamp, While Keeping Live Advice Human

The program makes repeatable startup practice available on demand, but reserves live expert sessions and investor access for the human side of the experience. Harvard Business School is putting AI versions of seven volunteer faculty members into an eight-week, $699 founder bootcamp. Practice before the consequential conversation Foundry is Harvard Business School’s AI-native digital workspace for entrepreneurs.

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OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks. OpenAI has opened a 10-day WebMCP Challenge around an experimental web standard that lets a site define structured actions an AI agent can use directly. That is a different model from asking an agent to treat a page primarily as a visual workspace.

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August 2026

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Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution. Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that can use one brief demonstration to attempt some physical tasks without changing its underlying parameters. Language, sensor data and the robot’s position information.

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AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer. AWS ’s Agentic Data Operations Platform promises to reduce the manual work of bringing new data sources online. ADOP is an AWS reference architecture built on Amazon Bedrock and a coding tool chosen by the user.

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Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

The new agent can turn recurring ticket problems into proposed automations, but Serval must still show it can manage the customization, governance and trust demands of large enterprises. Serval is launching Catalyst with a promise that reaches beyond another assistant for service teams. Serval is using that capability to argue it can replace ServiceNow in large enterprises, rather than merely sell alongside it.

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