While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat. The story centres on Amazon. Reported by TechCrunch. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Agents — the section covering autonomous and tool-using systems, agent frameworks, MCP and orchestration.
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS. It centres on Claude, and also names Amazon and Anthropic. Reported by AWS. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Models and AI Agents — the section covering a new or updated model, its capabilities, benchmarks or availability.
Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It centres on Benchmarks, and also names Amazon. Reported by AWS. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Models — the section covering a new or updated model, its capabilities, benchmarks or availability.
Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2. It centres on vLLM, and also names Amazon and Flux. Reported by AWS. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Models — the section covering a new or updated model, its capabilities, benchmarks or availability.
Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1. It centres on vLLM, and also names Amazon. Reported by AWS. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Models — the section covering a new or updated model, its capabilities, benchmarks or availability.