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AWS Quick’s personal knowledge graph is making orchestration decisions most control planes can’t see

AWS Quick’s personal knowledge graph is making orchestration decisions most control planes can’t see

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Enterprise AI teams running centralized orchestration stacks now have a new variable to account for: AWS Quick, which expanded this week to a desktop-native agent that builds a persistent personal knowledge graph and executes actions across local files and SaaS tools — outside the visibility of most control planes. Unlike chat-based copilots that reset with each session, Quick now maintains a continuously updated knowledge graph built from the user’s local files, calendar, email and connected SaaS apps. It uses it to proactively trigger actions without waiting to be asked. AWS launched Quick in October last year as an alternative to AI workflow and productivity platforms coming from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. It was a way for enterprise employees to access insights from connected applications, an agent builder, deep research, and workflow automation. Now, it’s grown beyond a simple AI assistant and acts more as a proactive workflow agent with a stateful, real-time knowledge graph of the user. It integrates with third-party apps like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoom, Salesforce and Slack — and now local …

This free Windows app turns your RAM usage graph into something actually readable

This free Windows app turns your RAM usage graph into something actually readable

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There are times when you might notice the Task Manager tab showing your RAM usage at almost full levels, with no obvious culprit in the process list. The graph may be moving, but it’s not telling you anything useful. Enter RAMMap, a free, portable tool from Microsoft’s Sysinternals suite that replaces that ambiguous dashboard with a full breakdown of every memory allocation type on the system, whether it’s active, standby, caches, driver-locked, file-mapped, or more. It only takes a quick 30 seconds to download and run, needs no installation, and the first tab alone will probably help you see deeper into your RAM usage than you thought you could see. Task Manager’s Memory tab (in Performance) shows a single stacked graph of RAM in use, committed, cached, and paged/non-paged. It looks detailed, but really just collapses all the data into one visual. It’s essentially hiding what’s actually using the RAM on your PC. Resource Monitor can add a little more insight (Working Set, Private, Shareable columns per process), but still won’t tell you if it’s …

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

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That was certainly the case for Claude Opus 4.5, the latest version of Anthropic’s most powerful model, which was released in late November. In December, METR announced that Opus 4.5 appeared to be capable of independently completing a task that would have taken a human about five hours—a vast improvement over what even the exponential trend would have predicted. One Anthropic safety researcher tweeted that he would change the direction of his research in light of those results; another employee at the company simply wrote, “mom come pick me up i’m scared.” Credit: METR.ORG But the truth is more complicated than those dramatic responses would suggest. For one thing, METR’s estimates of the abilities of specific models come with substantial error bars. As METR explicitly stated on X, Opus 4.5 might be able to regularly complete only tasks that take humans about two hours, or it might succeed on tasks that take humans as long as 20 hours. Given the uncertainties intrinsic to the method, it was impossible to know for sure.  “There are a …