Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan

In this episode:

• Welcome to Pivot Build for Thursday, May 7th, 2026. I'm Leo Park.

• And I'm Maya Rangan. Three stories today, and all of them should change how you're budgeting agent work this quarter.

• Let's start with AWS. They've rolled out agent control for their virtual cloud desktops — basically letting Bedrock agents drive a Workspaces session ...

• And the headline number from the vendor benchmark is brutal: a single click can consume up to 500,000 tokens. That's because every action requires sen...

• AWS's own pitch is that going API-first is faster and cheaper, which — yes, obviously. But the interesting thing is they're publishing that comparison...

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