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Tom’s Guide Smart Home Awards 2026: 25 gadgets and tools making our homes better, smarter and more stylish

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Smart Home Awards 2026 crown fridge power backup winner

A 2,016Wh fridge backup just won big at the Smart Home Awards. Tom’s Guide’s annual awards spotlight 25 gadgets and tools designed to make homes smarter, simpler, and more reliable, from robot vacuums and pool cleaners to air purifiers, security cameras, and large appliances. The emphasis is on prac

Amazon Bedrock Playground in chat mode showing a distributed architecture prompt and the Claude Sonnet 5 response
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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Lands on AWS Bedrock

The AI Omnibus: a rollback of AI safeguards before they even apply
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SVT Robotics surpasses four billion transactions on its Softbot automation platform
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SVT's Softbot Logs 4 Billion Transactions

Architecture overview. The frontend communicates with AgentCore Runtime through AG-UI events. AgentCore handles auth, scaling, and session isolation. The agent runtime translates framework-specific events into the AG-UI protocol.
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AI Agents Gain Live UI with AG-UI Protocol

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