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Ben's session #2 python-1.14.0 Claude Code v2.1.232 Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Rebuilds the U.S. Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Bolsters National Security and Strengthens U.S. Supply Chains by Imposing Tariffs on Drones and Their Parts and Components Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base How to move fast toward the right thing Using BigQuery Graphs with measures for trusted agentic workloads

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Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas
Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas
The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
Sakana Chatがアップデート：「Sakana Fugu」と新世代「Sakana Namazu」が利用可能に
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

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Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

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How to move fast toward the right thing
Try these 10 skills—and show off your own
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app
Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

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Using BigQuery Graphs with measures for trusted agentic workloads
Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability
Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool
Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Rebuilds the U.S. Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Bolsters National Security and Strengthens U.S. Supply Chains by Imposing Tariffs on Drones and Their Parts and Components
Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States
Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base
The Great Transshipment Scam

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Ben's session #2
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Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Mic…
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Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather th…
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I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub som…
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Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’
Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, s…
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Grok Bot is not what you think
plus skills and tools to try with agents…
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Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "y…
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Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a…
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Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health
The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and …
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Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do you…
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Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have…
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Another OpenAI executive takes off
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at t…

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