The AI Agent Tech Stack Explained
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Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3
Picture this: a compliance officer needs a specific clause during an audit, an attorney needs contract terms while a client waits on the phone, or a finance analyst needs numbers from last quarter’s report before a meeting that starts in 10 minutes. In each case, waiting for a scheduled job to finish is not practical. …
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Securing agentic AI with perimeter guardrails: What’s new in VPC Service Controls
As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and datasets, so it’s essential to establish clear network-level boundaries for comprehensive data protection. To help organizations confidently deploy these workflows, we recommend VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) to establish an essential network-level, destination-based perimeter. Today …
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Shifting data center power to off-peak hours could cut grid costs in the age of AI
The number of U.S. data centers is growing, largely to power artificial intelligence programs. That has led to concern about the environmental consequences of data centers—and their impact on the energy grid itself. What will happen if scores of new data centers come online?
Agentic Workflow vs. Autonomous Agent: What’s the Difference?
In this article, you will learn how to distinguish agentic workflows from autonomous agents by focusing on who owns control flow — a human writing…
Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services
The opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ views and not those of Cisco. Enterprise architectures have long been centered on REST APIs and microservices. These systems are stable, well-tested, and deeply embedded in production environments. They weren’t designed for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, the emerging standard for autonomous agents that collaborate, reason, and coordinate …
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Anthropic Thinks Its Own Success Is Key to Making AI Safe
Anthropic’s critics argue it’s rapidly accumulating power. The company says that’s what responsible AI development looks like.
Agentic AI bot helps scientists speak to robots, speeding up experiments
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and implement experiments. However, setting up an experiment on an autonomous lab robot is surprisingly slow. The effort requires a lengthy back-and-forth between a scientist and an engineer to design the experimental steps—a process that can take …
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Context Windows Are Not Memory: What AI Agent Developers Need to Understand
In this article, you will learn why a large context window is not the same thing as agent memory, and how techniques like retrieval, compression,…