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Happy Friday🥳!

Before you wrap the week, here’s a quick drop of things worth checking out.

This week: some exciting automation, a few security wake-up calls, and reminders that hype doesn't always match reality.

AWS Just Turned “Deploy to AWS” Into a Five-Word Prompt
With new open-source Agent Plugins for Amazon Web Services, you can type “deploy to AWS” and let your coding agent handle service selection, cost estimates, IaC, and provisioning. Infrastructure-as-code isn’t going away, but infrastructure-as-conversation might be taking the lead. Read more.

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept
GitHub has introduced agentic workflows in technical preview, enabling AI agents to run automatically inside GitHub Actions with sandboxing and layered security. As part of its “continuous AI” vision, this expands repository automation beyond traditional CI/CD, though it’s still early and should be used cautiously. Read more.

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom
A large National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) survey of nearly 6,000 executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia finds that while most companies are already using AI, the vast majority report no meaningful impact on jobs or productivity so far. Read more.

Anthropic: You can still use your Claude accounts to run OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Co.
A documentation update from Anthropic sparked fears that Claude subscriptions could no longer power third-party agent tools. The company says nothing is changing, but the reaction shows how fragile the flat rate era feels. Read more.

Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming
Microsoft has deprecated Polyglot Notebooks, the popular VS Code extension with 1.8 million installs that allowed multi-language Jupyter Notebooks, including C#, giving users just over a month's notice before bug fixes and support end on March 27th. Read more.

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL
A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, which Big Red owns. Read more.

Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs
Microsoft researchers found serious flaws in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions that could let attackers steal local files or execute code. With over 125 million installs combined, some issues remain unpatched, and OX Security warns that a single malicious extension could compromise entire environments. Read more.

Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies
Researchers at Check Point have shown that AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and xAI Grok can be abused as stealthy command and control channels. This raises fresh concerns for security teams integrating LLMs into enterprise and cloud environments. Read more.

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