InfoQ - Generative AI

AWS Open-Sources Dogwood, Extending Cedar to Govern Sequences of Agent Tool Calls

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:26:00 GMT

AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rather than one request in isolation. It covers approvals, rate limits and running totals, ships under Apache 2.0, and is supported in AgentCore Policy, though the reference interpreter is not production-ready.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS Introduces Native Vector Search for DynamoDB

Renato Losio — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:21:00 GMT

Amazon DynamoDB recently introduced native vector search, allowing developers to store embeddings alongside application data and run approximate nearest-neighbor queries directly from DynamoDB without using a separate vector database. The feature supports filtered similarity searches and configurable vector indexes for semantic search workloads.

By Renato Losio

Presentation: From Models to Agents: Building Context-Aware Consumer AI at Scale at DoorDash

Sudeep Das — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Sudeep Das shares how DoorDash shifts from legacy one-shot predictions to an agentic recommendation platform. He discusses leveraging language-native consumer memory, RQ-VAE semantic IDs for catalog representation, and grounded search to dramatically boost relevance and conversion metrics.

By Sudeep Das

Cloudflare Adds Agent Tracing, with Truncation Limits and Uneven Payload Defaults

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:46:00 GMT

Cloudflare launched agent tracing, adding spans for agent invocations, model calls, tool runs, and approvals to existing Workers traces. Sessions replay turn by turn, though the docs warn traces are not lossless and payloads may be truncated. Payload recording defaults differ by framework, and from October 1, 2026 every span counts as a billable event.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

LLM-Generated GraphQL Mocks Arrive at Airbnb and Expedia, While the Spec Lags behind

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:01:00 GMT

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows Airbnb's @generateMock in April and a GraphQL Foundation RFC opened in February. All three solve the same problem with different architectures, and two use the same directive name with incompatible semantics.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building

Daniel Dominguez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:37:00 GMT

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls.

By Daniel Dominguez

JetBrains Details its First Steps to Bring Rapidly Growing AI Spend under Control

Matt Foster — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:25:00 GMT

JetBrains has described how it began centralising AI usage after development-related spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. Rather than restricting engineers to a small set of approved tools, the company built a shared access and accounting layer intended to preserve tool choice while giving teams greater visibility and control over consumption.

By Matt Foster

Article: Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

Jacobus Meintjes, Narayana Rengaswamy, Paul Katsande, Sureshbabu Bikki — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

As AI commoditizes code output, system comprehension silently decays, creating cognitive debt that threatens safe architectural evolution. This article explores why human understanding must be treated as an essential architectural characteristic, offering actionable strategies, socio-technical metrics, and design checkpoints to preserve intent across modern engineering teams.

By Jacobus Meintjes, Narayana Rengaswamy, Paul Katsande, Sureshbabu Bikki

Azure API Management Adds Dedicated AI Gateway Tier, Governing Models and MCP Tools

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:35:00 GMT

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, Vertex AI and OpenAI behind one endpoint, with policy cards instead of XML. Architects welcomed the consolidation while questioning where the governance boundary sits.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers