This post demonstrates building a competitive research agent using LangChain Deep Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent delegates deep work to isolated subagents (browser and interpreter) to overcome context window limitations, enabling parallel research, data analysis, and cross-session memory.

Cloudflare is deepening its investment in AI by adding team members from Ensemble AI, focusing on machine learning infrastructure and efficiency. The Ensemble team brings expertise in model compression and efficient inference, including NdLinear technology, to enhance Workers AI's performance and cost-effectiveness.

This article argues that the traditional 'migrate first, modernize later' approach delays value realization, and leading organizations adopt a parallel method, leveraging AI-driven automation, progressive decommissioning, and partner expertise to accelerate business outcomes.

This issue covers: Sequent, a new safety nonprofit claiming alignment is not on track and taking a portfolio approach; ChinaHeritaQA, a multimodal benchmark for cultural reasoning; FrontierCode, a hard coding benchmark emphasizing code quality; Xiaomi's 1000 token/s model; and AARR benchmarks for AI research assistants.