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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Two new models for agentic coding and efficient AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announced the availability of GLM-5.1-FP8 and Phi-4-mini-instruct in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models from Z.ai and Microsoft bring advanced agentic capabilities and efficient inference to enterprise AI workloads on AWS infrastructure. These models address different e ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Published context: May 14, 2026. Today, AWS announces that the AWS Transform agents — built on decades of AWS migration and modernization experience — are now accessible through a Kiro power, agent plugins, and via the AWS Transform MCP server. Developers can now consume all of AWS Transform’s capabilities directly from their preferred development environment, whether working interactively ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management. Published context: May 15, 2026. I’m a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewing my data. I’m an engineer, so I built the tool I needed — and now I’m open sourcing it. GlycemicGPT is a self-hosted platform that connects continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and existing Nightscout instances to an AI analysis lay ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents. Published context: May 13, 2026. Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software. The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies. Published context: May 12, 2026. Altman said that Musk’s focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew “founders who had control usually did not give it up.” ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling. Published context: May 11, 2026. AWS WAF now supports dynamic label interpolation, enabling you to forward WAF classification signals to your origin and embed context in responses with a single rule. Security engineers who previously maintained a separate rule for every signal value can now use ${namespace:} syntax in custom request headers, response headers, and response bodies to forward ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data. Published context: May 11, 2026. Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics’ data backbone. The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise. Published context: May 8, 2026. A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers’ systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. “QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentia ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation. Published context: May 8, 2026. IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Java applications and Terraform-aware policy generation, expanding its language coverage and its ability to generate less permissive IAM policies from code. IAM Policy Autopilot is an open-source tool launched at re:Invent 2025 that helps builders quickly and deterministically create baseline IAM policies on AWS that you can ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based configuration that provisions Slurm cluster nodes with the software and configurations needed for a production-ready environment to run AI/ML training workloads. This removes the need to download, configure, or upload lifecycle configuration scripts to Amazon S3. With fewer operational steps to prepare a clust ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS. Published context: May 6, 2026. Today, AWS is launching the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite of tools and guidance that helps AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls. The Agent Toolkit for AWS is the successor to the MCP servers, plugins, and skills available on AWS Labs . Developers using coding agents to bu ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack Compromises Official Installers with Malware. Published context: May 5, 2026. A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. “These installers are distributed from the legitimate website of DAEMON Tools and are signed with digital certificates belonging to DAEMON Tools developers,” Kaspersky researchers Igor Kuzne ...