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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Historic Oil Agreement to Secure American Energy Dominance and Drive Venezuela’s Economic Recovery

SECURING STABLE & LOW-COST OIL SUPPLY IN OUR HEMISPHERE: In the biggest oil deal in world history, President Donald J. Trump has secured U.S. majority contr…

Asia’s 75-point gap: Moving consumers from retirement angst to action

Asians are worried about retirement but largely underprepared for it. The retirement industry can close the gap between customers’ awareness and action by rethi…

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 …

Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure

Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.…

Fact Sheet: Delivering a Universal Sign-on for Public Services

IMPROVING PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY: The Trump Administration continues to improve how Government delivers services to the American public, in particular through …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Deal with Nine Additional Pharmaceutical Manufacturers to Lower Drug Prices for Americans

ADVANCING MOST-FAVORED-NATION (MFN) PRICING: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced nine new agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers to lower pres…

Europe on the move: A conversation with Boerse Stuttgart Group’s CEO

With 160 years of experience, Boerse Stuttgart Group is Europe's sixth-largest exchange group, helping position Europe for the future through digital, blockchai…

Build multi-tenant agentic chat applications on enterprise data with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

Learn how to build a multi-tenant agentic document chat application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, where users upload documents and immediately ask g…

Build observable enterprise agentic retrieval using Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with AWS CloudFormation

This post builds an enterprise agentic retrieval solution on the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. An agent reasons, routes ac…

Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry

AWS Agent Registry is now generally available: a single, searchable, governed catalog for the agents, tools, skills, and custom resources across your organizati…

AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025

We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers,…

GitHub Copilot in VS Code, August 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.132 through v1.135, shipped throughout August 2026. These releases make it easier to organize agent sessions, review changes, a…

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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”

The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC.…

Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably…

President Trump and VP Vance Deliver Manufacturing Renaissance to Michigan

Vice President JD Vance is in Michigan today to mark the comeback of American manufacturing under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump. Since taking offi…

AstraZeneca’s Bob Li on the MARS mission to eliminate cancer

Bob Li, AstraZeneca's Global Head of Medical Affairs, Oncology, on why only 7 percent of cancer patients get access to clinical trials, and what decentralized t…

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new pol…

Revolutionizing semiconductor fab operations with AI

AI has the potential to improve build processes and operations within semiconductor fabs. Early adopters could see significant cost improvement and productivity…

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, o…

State of the Union 2026

State of the Union 2026 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/31/2026 - 16:11   16 September 2026 The State of the Union (SOTEU) address is an annual speech by …

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocki…

A milestone in expanding access to AI

ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.…

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the Eu…

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!…

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label …

Reckitt’s transformation: Three moves, one strategic reset

Reckitt didn’t sequence change. It did three moves at once: transforming its core, separating noncore businesses, and resetting its operating model. That decisi…

ChinAI #373: The OpenClaw Hype and Overestimating China’s Diffusion Advantage

Plus, Ask the Audience about a tricky research ethics question…

Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act

Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/31/2026 - 11:10 Today, the Commission has designated C…