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Harnessing Multi-Agent Systems with Strands and Bedrock for Automated Prospecting

Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents promise automated intelligence for complex prospecting challenges, but require careful orchestration.

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Around the Web

Worth a look

Tools

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

github | stars 194,822

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

github | stars 85,959

nexu-io/open-design

🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images &…

github | stars 79,670

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

github | stars 40,048

zai-org/GLM-5.2

Trending AI model on Hugging Face — text-generation.

🤗huggingface

esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.

github | stars 27,312

Research

Can We Trust Item Response Theory for AI Evaluation?

AI benchmarks increasingly leverage item-level statistical models, particularly item response theory (IRT), to estimate model capabilities, rank systems, select informative examples, and diagnose benchmark quality. Howe…

arxiv

A lower bound of 4 for online graph exploration

In the online graph exploration problem, a single agent needs to visit every vertex of an initially unknown graph, which is learned over time in an online fashion, and return to its starting position. We prove that the…

arxiv

News

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, governance, scaling and deployment, and the AI-specific optim…

aws.amazon

A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

openai