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Amazon jumps onto the enterprise agent hype train.

July 23, 2025 View Online | Sign Up Presented By It's Wednesday. At last week's AWS Summit in Manhattan, Amazon execs detailed how they're moving all-the-rage AI agents from the proof-of-concept stage to "real-world production use cases." Tech Brew's Patrick Kulp was on the ground at the event to collect all the details. In today's edition: Amazon jumps onto the enterprise agent hype train What's driving a new energy storage partnership between GM and Redwood Oregon's new laws will allow for more community-owned microgrids —Patrick Kulp, Jordyn Grzelewski, Tricia Crimmins, Annie Saunders AI Taking action Noah Berger/Getty Images No, it's not a TikTok aesthetic that involves dressing like a spy: AgentCore is a new toolkit from Amazon's cloud arm designed to help companies build and deploy AI agents. With these autonomous systems billed as the next big thing in AI, companies everywhere are itching to create some of their own. But like all generative AI projects, moving from experiments to full-fledged production can be daunting. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the latest in a long line of new products from tech giants aimed at easing that process. The platform has tools for managing memory, observability, helping agents access other digital services and the web at large, running generated code, and coordinating between agents. Amazon announced AgentCore, along with a new agent marketplace and a coding tool called Kiro, at its AWS Summit in Manhattan last week. "There are a bunch of missing pieces that make it really difficult [to] move from [proofs of concept] that are sitting in laptops to agents in real-world production use cases," Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, said on stage at the event. Keep reading here.—PK Presented By Samsara New AI tools for the real world AI is no longer theoretical. Samsara just launched new tools built for the modern era. They're going for a new standard when it comes to creating an AI-powered platform for safety and efficiency in physical operations. Samsara safety tech adoption surpassed 80% in some cases. This means the frontline could become the front edge of innovation. Explore real-world AI tools like: multicam AI for safer driving predictive maintenance to cut downtime smart routing that beats delays Read the full breakdown. GREEN TECH Storage unit Young777/Getty Images The electric vehicle market is on shaky ground amid cooling demand and the looming expiration of federal incentives. Flexibility could be the name of the game for EV sector players in the coming months and years—and a new deal between General Motors and battery recycler Redwood Materials may point to a promising opportunity: energy storage. In a July 16 news release, the two companies announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding "to accelerate deployment of energy storage systems using both new US-manufactured batteries from GM and second-life battery packs from GM electric vehicles." GM touted the deal as "a significant step toward taking GM's advanced battery technology beyond EVs." The automaker already had been sending used EV battery materials to Redwood under an existing agreement. GM has its own burgeoning energy business, which in October launched a stationary energy storage unit for EVs dubbed "PowerBank." The product allows users to transfer and store energy from the grid. Other automakers, like Tesla, also offer energy storage products. Data center demand: Driving the agreement, according to GM and Redwood executives, is the surging demand for electricity, in part from a proliferation of new data centers. Keep reading here.—JG GREEN TECH Hyperlocal Melinda Gray/Getty Images Frequent wildfires and other severe weather events in Oregon often leave communities at the end of power lines without electricity. Now, thanks to two new state laws, tribes, municipalities, and third-party developers looking to set up and own microgrids in rural areas will soon have the legal and regulatory framework to do so. Governor Tina Kotek recently signed House Bill 2065, which requires public utilities to provide groups needing microgrids in their area with the required information, and House Bill 2066, which calls on the state's Public Utility Commission to "establish a regulatory framework for allowing the ownership, deployment, and use of microgrids and community microgrids within the service territories of electric companies," into law. Both are the first of their kind in the country. "Red tape should never get in the way of technology that could mean the difference between fast, efficient electricity restoration and delays and risk when power outages strike," Kotek said in a statement. "These new laws will help bring more microgrids online faster and deliver cost savings to consumers in every part of the state." Prior to these laws, entities hoping to build and own their own microgrids faced legal hurdles and bureaucratic bottlenecks when they tried to set them up, Sustainable Northwest President Dylan Kruse told Tech Brew. Sustainable Northwest is a clean tech and regenerative farming nonprofit that helped draft both bills and will help create the regulatory framework. Keep reading here.—TC Together With Deloitte They're cookin' over there. Have you seen what Deloitte's engineering studios have been up to lately? With a $150 million investment in disruptive tech, you'll want to check it out. Their work combines engineering talent and business insight across GenAI, robotics, quantum computing, and more. See what innovations they're driving. BITS AND BYTES Stat: 22%. That's the percentage of data centers that are "at high or moderate risk" as a result of the climate crisis, IT Brew reported, citing data from XDI. That number is expected to jump to nearly 27% by 2050. Quote: "Students often turn to AI only for research, outlining and proofreading. The problem is that the moment you use it, the boundary between tool and collaborator, even author, begins to blur."—Meghan O'Rourke, a creative writing professor at Yale, in a guest essay in The New York Times about how AI is affecting students Read: Trump and the energy industry are eager to power AI with fossil fuels (Wired) AI says safety first: Samsara is on a mission to make the frontline of physical operations safer with their AI-powered tools. 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