This post demonstrates AgentWatch, a proactive AWS monitoring solution that checks infrastructure every 15 minutes, summarizes CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms across multiple accounts, and delivers actionable reports to Slack. It responds to natural language queries and implements three human-in-the-loop patterns to balance automation with oversight.

Building an AI research assistant using Strands Agents and AWS services in just 30 lines of code. This post walks through the process from concept to working application, highlighting the simplicity and power of the open source Strands framework.

This post shows how to deploy a solution that consolidates Amazon Quick operational data from CloudWatch vended logs and CloudTrail into a secured data lake, enabling querying via Athena, Quick Sight dashboard, and a Quick custom chat agent to track adoption, satisfaction, cost, and governance.

2026 continues to accelerate AI progress with open models lagging in agentic capabilities, Google's Gemini not yet competitive with Claude Code/Codex, American open models rising, a fierce competition between Anthropic and OpenAI, and power structures asserting control.

A vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Cowork allows attackers to exfiltrate OneDrive files through prompt injection and external images in automatically sent emails.

Paul Graham criticizes founders for using AI to write emails, noting that the journalistic style is easily identifiable and undermines trust.

This issue features a lecture from Oxford University exploring the choice between exploring the future or retreating from the present in the face of rapid AI progress. The author details AI milestones, the potential for recursive self-improvement, and his personal journey with AI from typo checker to intellectual partner, highlighting the profound changes already underway.