Kim Hatton's transition from finance to Databricks shows how the company values deep industry expertise to solve modern data challenges. The article discusses marketing, technology, and AI in regulated industries.

Simon Willison updates his OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session tool to support the new GPT-Realtime-2 model and allow pasting document context for conversational audio exploration.

GitHub Copilot CLI now uses smarter subagent delegation to reduce unnecessary handoffs and wait times. Production A/B testing shows a 23% reduction in tool failures and a 5% improvement in user wait time. The article details how the team identified delegation bottlenecks, refined the orchestration policy, and validated improvements.

Artificial Analysis released AgentPerf, the industry's first benchmark for agentic AI. Initial results show NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 leading, running 20x more agents per megawatt than Hopper. The benchmark measures how many concurrent agentic tasks a platform can support under real-world coding agent workloads.

Rocket Close collaborated with AWS to create Supercharger, an agentic AI solution using Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock, and MCP tools to streamline title operations. By centralizing knowledge and automating research-heavy tasks, the solution reduced contact center calls and emails by 30%, improved title exam accuracy, and enhanced client satisfaction. This post details the technical architecture, business impact, and lessons learned.