Amazon Turns 250K Hires and 400M SKUs Into Agent Software

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Amazon Turns Connect Into a Multi-Agent Business Suite

Amazon expanded Connect into four agentic AI products for supply chain, hiring, customer service, and healthcare. The strongest signal is Amazon packaging its own operational playbooks 400M+ SKUs, 250K seasonal hires, and millions of customer interactions into agentic enterprise software. Strategically, AWS is turning internal execution systems into external agent platforms.

FIDO, Google and Mastercard Move to Secure Agent Payments

FIDO Alliance launched working groups with Google and Mastercard to create standards for AI-agent transactions. Google’s AP2 and Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent framework are being contributed as foundations for cryptographic proof, user intent, and dispute accountability. Strategically, agentic commerce is now moving from checkout UX to security infrastructure.

Feedonomics Makes Product Catalogs Agent-Ready

Feedonomics launched Agentic Catalog Exports, letting merchants syndicate product data to OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot, PayPal, Stripe, Perplexity, Amazon, and other AI shopping surfaces. Dell is already using it to prepare about 7,000 products for agent-driven discovery. Strategically, this is SEO for the agent economy.

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HomeLight Launches an AI Escrow Agent

HomeLight launched EVA, an agentic escrow officer for real estate closings, alongside $40M in BlackRock-managed debt financing. EVA can work across 80+ tools and automate tasks such as opening orders, ordering HOA/title documents, coordinating with lenders, and wiring funds. Strategically, agents are entering regulated, document-heavy transaction workflows.

Duck Creek Brings Agentic AI to Insurance Workflows

Duck Creek launched an insurance-native Agentic AI Platform for deploying, orchestrating, and governing agents across underwriting and claims. It also introduced Agentic Underwriting Workbench and Agentic FNOL, targeting high-friction P&C workflows. Strategically, insurance agents are becoming embedded inside core systems, not bolted-on copilots.

DigitalOcean Targets Agentic Inference Costs

DigitalOcean launched Inference Engine with routing, batch, serverless, and dedicated inference options. Its Inference Router sends each agentic request to the right model instead of defaulting to the most expensive one, with customers reporting up to 67% lower inference costs. Strategically, agent economics are becoming an infrastructure problem.

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