Amazon Web Services on Sept. 21 launched Strands Harness, an open-source agent designed to help developers build and deploy AI agents in any environment. AWS said many developers can prototype agents locally with Anthropic\'s Claude Code and OpenAI\'s Codex but face difficulty moving from local setups to scalable cloud environments. Strands Harness can run on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, among others, and supports multiple frontier models.

AI coding agent startup Cognition has raised more than $2 billion in a Series E funding round that values the company at $48 billion. SiliconANGLE reported the valuation nearly doubled from the previous round, with annualised revenue close to $900 million. Cognition raised $1 billion in May at a $26 billion valuation. The company develops an AI agent that handles the full software engineering process.