Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (opens strandsagents.com)
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
From SiliconANGLE: Anthropic PBC Wednesday introduced Claude Duet, a proactive artificial intelligence agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.
Graphon builds memory for AI agents by mapping connections across docs, videos and images; RRE led.
Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.
DeepSeek says Harness reached 1.54 million daily users within three months of launch and processes about 92 trillion tokens a day, roughly 60 million per user.
Dropbox is buying cloud storage startup Tigris Data alongside DBX Agent Cloud, a storage service for AI agents.