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TNB Tech Minute: AWS Unveils AI Agents It Says Can Work for Days at a Time

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: EU court says Apple can face Dutch antitrust lawsuits. And the Trump administration will invest up to $150 million in chip startup xLight. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think about cheese.

0:02.0

Make your thoughts cheesier.

0:04.2

Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt.

0:08.3

And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.

0:12.4

Did we mention it's cheesy?

0:13.9

Cheese.

0:15.8

Availments with the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11 a.m.

0:18.1

Plus and participation may vary.

0:19.2

Subject to availability.

0:21.7

Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, December 2nd. I'm Julie Chang for the

0:27.0

Wall Street Journal. Amazon Web Services has unveiled a host of new tools and features designed

0:32.8

to help companies get more value from generative AI. That includes a new category of AI agents that can carry out tasks for hours or days without getting stuck and asking users for help, according to the company.

0:45.2

Here's AWS CEO Matt Garman at the Cloud Giant's annual conference today.

0:49.6

This change is going to have as much impact on your business as the internet or the cloud.

0:58.4

I believe that in the future, there's going to be billions of agents inside of every company and across every imaginable field.

1:00.7

AWS also shared news on a service called Nova Forge, which lets companies train private

1:06.4

instances of Amazon's Nova models on their own proprietary data.

1:13.5

The European Union's top court said that Apple can face antitrust lawsuits in the Netherlands over the terms of its app store. The ruling comes

1:19.5

after two Dutch foundations filed claims against Apple in Amsterdam, alleging that the company abuses

1:25.2

its dominant position and app distribution on its own devices.

1:29.0

The foundations said that the fees that Apple charges developers for setting up shop on the app

1:33.6

store are unfair and harm consumers. Apple argued that judges in the Netherlands don't have

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