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• Conover Kennard
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that.

AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent
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TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Joe Ragazzo
Many Hats
I just finished recording an episode of The TPM Social Club with Josh Kovensky. We had an awesome conversation with...
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Third Party and Independent Candidates to Watch
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Mitch McConnell Says He’s Been Discharged From Rehab
“Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that he has been discharged from a rehabilitation center, nearly two months after he was hospitalized,” CBS News reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
GOP Senators Come Out Against Max Miller
“Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) called for embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) to drop his reelection bid amid allegations from his ex-wife that he abused her and their young daughter,” Mediaite reports. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) called Miller a ‘degenerate sociopath’ in a statement urging him to exit the race released shortly before Husted’s comments.”
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
This 1.5 MW electric truck charger just cleared a key US hurdle

Portuguese EV charging company i-charging has cleared a key hurdle for bringing its 1.5-megawatt (MW) electric truck charger to the US and Canada.
Parkway, 1914 #augustmacke #expressionism
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
U.S. News Ranks The Best Regional Hospitals In New York
U.S. News has revealed the best hospital in every region across New York State, including in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
Tedium
• Ernie Smith
The Earnest Era Ends
When we lost Glen Hansard last week, his work still fresh and lively, it was a reminder that the world has changed more than we think it has.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors

Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario
The post Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next.

Microsoft spent the first phase of the AI coding boom pushing its engineers to use the tools. Now it wants
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more

Doist CTO Gonçalo Silva doesn’t pretend to know where AI is headed. The pace of change has made it harder
The post Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more appeared first on The New Stack.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Grows Angry Over Reports On Depleted Munitions
“President Donald Trump has privately complained in recent days that disclosures on the dwindling U.S. munitions stockpile make the United States look weak at a critical juncture, senior U.S. officials said, as he repeatedly threatens additional military action to try and motivate Iran to agree to a deal,” CNN reports.
Racket
• Hannah Kovnar
‘The Cat Is My Customer’: Defying the Odds, St. Paul’s 35-Year-Old Cat Furniture Shop to Triple in Size
‘I wanted to have a cat furniture superstore, and I’ve finally achieved it,’ owner Darryl Michaelson beams.
Racket
• Keith Harris
The Movies Have Gone to… the Cats???
Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.
Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...
Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying video game called Sopwith, which was never supposed to be released to the public (an event that the game’s creator didn’t learn about until years later).
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Senate Eyes Deal to Leave for Recess
“The Senate is searching for a deal to speed up consideration of a number of priorities as a handful of outstanding issues, including on funding the government and confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general, stand between them and their August recess,” CBS News reports.