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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.…

OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
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OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports incidents involving AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company ma…

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control t…

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31
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GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31

This week, GitHub Copilot expands model choice and content protections, while VS Code adds new ways to manage agent sessions and get pull requests merge-ready. …

GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI’s latest general-purpose model, GPT-6 Astra, is designed for long-horizon, autonomous c…

Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory
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Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory

Long-running AI agents accumulate outdated memories that degrade quality and create compliance risk. Learn how to design memory lifecycle policies for Amazon Be…

How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock
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How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock

Disaster recovery at scale is hard. Learn how Intuit built EWOK Agent, an agentic disaster recovery assistant on Amazon Bedrock that lets on-call engineers run …

Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart
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Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart

HyperPod InstantStart is an open source control plane that composes Amazon EKS orchestration with the managed capabilities of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. It driv…

Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI
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Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials stayi…

Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models
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Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) o…

Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate
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Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate

Learn best practices for building production-grade, agent-based business process automations with Amazon Quick Automate: choosing the right process, designing f…

Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation
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Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation

Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-e…

Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

An agent that works in a notebook is not an agent in production. This post walks through migrating a LangGraph customer support agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCor…

AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) often struggle to turn concepts into working code. This post walks through two reference…

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026
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Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents …

Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities
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Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities

Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-a…

From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how a global interdealer broker built an automated architecture documentation pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that analyzes .NET code bases, generate…

Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release
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Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real …

How Coinbase used Code Connect to guide agents and shrink token costs
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How Coinbase used Code Connect to guide agents and shrink token costs

Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated
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Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated

As of today, September 1, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and ag…

Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot
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Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot. The latest model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for long-ho…

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work
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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The co…

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
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NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automate…

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
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How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.…

From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI
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From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI

When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on …

How Boomi Scribe streamlines documentation using AWS
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How Boomi Scribe streamlines documentation using AWS

Boomi Scribe is an AI-powered agent on AWS that automatically generates documentation for enterprise integration workflows. Learn how Boomi uses Amazon Bedrock,…

How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
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How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

t54 built x402-secure, a trust layer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments that scores every endpoint before an autonomous agent pays it. See how session budgets…

Securing Amazon Quick from POC to production: Agents, Flows, and Spaces
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Securing Amazon Quick from POC to production: Agents, Flows, and Spaces

Amazon Quick proof-of-concept projects often stall when security teams review the production plan. This post walks through designing dashboards, Spaces, knowled…

Build your ideas
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Build your ideas

Claude Code limits and Infinite Slop…

Connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick
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Connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick

In this post, you will learn how to deploy and host your MCP server in AgentCore Runtime and integrate it with Amazon Quick, along with the prerequisites. With …