AWS Fires Up AgentCore for Enterprise AI Agents
With Hugging Face's Reachy Mini and Google's New AI Call Feature in tow
TLDR; In today’s Signal
Google Unveils AI Call Feature, Expands Gemini 2.5 Pro to Android
Researchers Slam xAI’s ‘Reckless’ Approach to AI Safety
AWS launches AgentCore to help enterprises deploy real AI agents
Hugging Face’s Reachy Mini: The Open-Source Robot Bringing AI to Your Desk
Scale AI Cuts 14% of Workforce Amid Restructurings
OpenAI Adds Google Cloud to Its Growing Infrastructure Roster
Anthropic Draws Investor Buzz at Over $100B Valuation
Lucidya secures $30 million Series B
THE AI SIGNAL PICKS
Google Unveils AI Call Feature, Expands Gemini 2.5 Pro to Android
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered phone feature aimed at helping businesses manage customer calls more efficiently. The tool can answer incoming calls, respond to common customer questions, take messages, and even book appointments using conversational AI. At the same time, Google is bringing its advanced Gemini 2.5 Pro model to “AI Mode,” a dedicated workspace inside Android that integrates powerful AI capabilities directly into user workflows.
OpenAI Working on Checkout in ChatGPT
OpenAI is developing an integrated payment checkout system directly within ChatGPT. This move would allow users to complete purchases without leaving the chatbot interface. Merchants using this feature would pay OpenAI a commission on sales, unlocking a new revenue stream beyond subscriptions
Researchers Slam xAI’s ‘Reckless’ Approach to AI Safety
A group of current and former AI researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have raised red flags about the internal safety practices at Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. In a sharply worded statement, they describe the company’s approach to AI safety as “reckless,” fueling concerns over how fast-moving frontier models are being developed without adequate oversight.
Reflection, Co-Founded by Ex-Google Researchers, Launches Asimov
Reflection has unveiled Asimov, a groundbreaking AI agent designed to deeply understand software development workflows. Unlike typical coding assistants that focus on generating code, Asimov reads and analyzes a company’s entire engineering ecosystem to build a unified, persistent “brain” of organizational knowledge.
General Motors Goes All-In on AI as Automotive Adoption Accelerates
General Motors is doubling down on artificial intelligence, signaling a broader trend across the automotive sector where AI is no longer a future ambition—it’s becoming core to product development, manufacturing, and driver experience. GM is integrating AI across its operations, from vehicle design and predictive maintenance to manufacturing and customer service.
THE BIG LEAP
AWS launches AgentCore to help enterprises deploy real AI agents
Signal Scoop: Amazon Web Services is making a serious play in the agentic AI race. With the preview launch of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS aims to give enterprises a new toolset to build, deploy, and manage AI agents that don’t just generate responses—but act
The Full Picture
AgentCore is built natively into Amazon Bedrock, allowing developers to integrate leading foundation models (like Anthropic’s Claude or Meta’s Llama) into custom agents.
Plug into real-world tools: Agents can call APIs, retrieve data, interact with company databases, and even write or run code.
Memory and planning support: Includes features like step-by-step reasoning, task decomposition, and contextual memory to complete longer workflows.
Enterprise-grade controls: Built with AWS’s compliance and security standards, making it suitable for sensitive business environments.
Supports RAG and tool use out-of-the-box: Agents can retrieve real-time data from document stores, knowledge bases, or apps like Salesforce or Jira.
Flexible developer APIs and orchestration tools: Lets companies tailor agent behavior to unique business needs.
What You Can’t Miss
AgentCore isn’t just about showing off AI, it’s about operationalizing it. For companies sitting on mountains of proprietary data and legacy workflows, Bedrock AgentCore offers a pathway to deploy agents that do more than chat: they work.
Hugging Face’s Reachy Mini: The Open-Source Robot Bringing AI to Your Desk
Signal Scoop: Hugging Face is stepping into the physical world by launching an affordable, open-source robot called Reachy Mini. This move follows its recent acquisition of Pollen Robotics and signals a major bet on making AI robotics as accessible and community-driven as its popular language models.
The Full Picture
Reachy Mini is fully open-source: hardware, software, behavior packs, and SDK.
Built to interface with Hugging Face’s ecosystem and Hugging Face Hub.
28 cm tall robot with animated face, stereo mics, speaker, camera, 6 degrees of freedom (6-DoF) for motion and expression, runs on Raspberry Pi 5 with expandable hardware options.
Supports Python now; JavaScript and Scratch support coming soon. Includes a visual simulator for offline development.
Targets educators, makers, and AI hobbyists as a physical gateway to machine learning.
Designed to be a “GitHub for robotics”—developers can share robot apps and behaviors.
What You Can’t Miss
Reachy Mini isn’t just a cute desk companion—it’s a serious AI development platform wrapped in a friendly, animated shell. Users gain access to a programmable, expressive robot that integrates tightly with Hugging Face’s AI tools. Its open-source nature means full transparency and creative control, breaking down the wall between robotics labs and everyday developers
ON THE AI EDGE
Scale AI Cuts 14% of Workforce Amid Restructurings
Scale AI has laid off approximately 14% of its staff, equating to around 200 full-time employees and an additional 500 contractors, primarily within its data-labeling (GenAI) division. This move follows Meta’s $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI and the transition of its founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta's Superintelligence Lab.
OpenAI Adds Google Cloud to Its Growing Infrastructure Roster
OpenAI has struck a new infrastructure deal with Google Cloud, bringing the platform into its supplier fold for powering ChatGPT and its API services. The move broadens OpenAI’s backend strategy beyond its longtime Microsoft Azure partnership, as demand for generative AI continues to surge.
“Superathletes” Could Be Earning $100M Silicon Valley Paychecks
Meta is in the midst of a massive recruitment push, reportedly offering signing bonuses of up to $100 million to lure elite AI researchers away from OpenAI, Apple, and Google—highlighting an increasingly competitive landscape for top-tier talent.
WeTransfer Says It Won’t Use User Content for AI Training
After facing backlash over updated terms that hinted at potential AI training on user data, file-sharing giant WeTransfer has clarified it will not use any user content for training AI models.
AI START-UP NEWS
Anthropic Draws Investor Buzz at Over $100B Valuation
Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, is reportedly in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation exceeding $100 billion, signaling growing investor appetite for frontier AI players as the industry accelerates.
Lucidya secures $30 million Series B
Wa’ed Ventures (Aramco’s VC arm) led a $30 million Series B for Lucidya, a Saudi AI startup. This investment marks a regional surge in local AI funding
Coverflow Raises $4.8M to Automate Insurance Workflow
Coverflow has secured a $4.8 million seed round, led by AIX Ventures with participation from Founder Collective and Afore Capital. The company builds an AI-first, web-based platform designed specifically for insurance brokers, aiming to eliminate repetitive manual tasks like reviewing policy documents, entering data, and managing spreadsheets
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