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President Trump Honors 9/11 Heroes and Renews America’s Vow to Never Forget
Policy

President Trump Honors 9/11 Heroes and Renews America’s Vow to Never Forget

Today, President Donald J. Trump stood with first responders, Gold Star families, and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to honor the Americans who ran toward the …

Your budget is killing your strategy: four imperatives for CFOs
Practice

Your budget is killing your strategy: four imperatives for CFOs

The traditional annual budget process is broken. It is rigid, backward-looking, and not operationally fit to keep up with today's fast-moving markets. Top-perfo…

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store introduces UpdateRecord for feature-level writes
Practice

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store introduces UpdateRecord for feature-level writes

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes. With the new UpdateRecord API, you can update one or more feature values in a single call with…

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Labs

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.…

A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
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A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users

Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of…

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 1
Practice

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 1

Managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker AI now syncs richer model metadata (training metrics, evaluation results, inference specs, and lineage) into the SageMaker AI…

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2
Practice

Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2

Governing models across accounts is the next step after automatic model registration. This post extends managed MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sy…

Called to serve: Tech, research, and positive impact with Chris White
Research

Called to serve: Tech, research, and positive impact with Chris White

Lab Director Chris White has worked on research challenges with real-world implications—from new approaches to wartime data analysis to tools for combating huma…

Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Labs

Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development

Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.…

Creating value from AI and digital capabilities in logistics operations
Practice

Creating value from AI and digital capabilities in logistics operations

As AI and digital capabilities become more widely adopted in logistics operations, the companies seeing returns from their investments are doing three things di…

How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app
Practice

How KDDI built Buffmee, a faster, reliable consumer RAG app

When building consumer-facing generative AI applications, balancing high generation quality with fast response times across diverse media types, can be challeng…

How DiDi built intelligent contact center QA with Amazon Bedrock
Practice

How DiDi built intelligent contact center QA with Amazon Bedrock

DiDi built a transparent, self-owned contact center quality assurance (QA) system on Amazon Bedrock, replacing an opaque third-party tool. Intent verification a…

How HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system with Amazon Bedrock
Practice

How HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system with Amazon Bedrock

HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system powered by Amazon Bedrock that runs on-premises inside the customer environment. This post describes the multi…

Benchmarking small LLM inference on SageMaker AI: G7 vs G5 and G6
Practice

Benchmarking small LLM inference on SageMaker AI: G7 vs G5 and G6

Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Co…

Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions
Practice

Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions

Wire Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations into a GitHub Actions pipeline: deploy an AI agent and an OAuth-protected MCP server to AgentCore runtime, invoke the …

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Research

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth…

OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
Labs

OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms

OpenAI is expanding support for journalism with tools, training, and partnerships for students, educators, journalists, and news organizations.…

Adobe is trying to make its AI generators idiot-proof in Premiere
Briefing

Adobe is trying to make its AI generators idiot-proof in Premiere

Adobe is overhauling how editors interact with AI in its Premiere professional video editing software. Its new Generative Media tool makes it easier to generate…

The first GPT-6 model
Briefing

The first GPT-6 model

and what I’m building with it…

Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments
Briefing

Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biolog…

Modernizing for the mission: An interview with Jamie Wolff
Practice

Modernizing for the mission: An interview with Jamie Wolff

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s CIO shares that modernization means rebuilding infrastructure, data, and talent at once—while keeping the mission…

The Work Now Within Reach
Labs

The Work Now Within Reach

Explore how more capable, affordable AI can expand the work people and businesses can accomplish—and make growth more economical.…

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Labs

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.…

Global Farmer Insights 2026
Practice

Global Farmer Insights 2026

Our biennial global survey of 5,500 farmers finds that they are becoming selective in their spending in the face of economic pressures. AI is making inroads, ev…

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Research

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the…

Welcome Alex Kurland, Menlo’s Newest Partner
Practice

Welcome Alex Kurland, Menlo’s Newest Partner

Today is a big day for Menlo as we welcome Alex Kurland to the team! Adding a partner to a close-knit partnership is a big deal in many ways, but this is partic…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.1
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.1

Smart rail infrastructure: Laying the digital tracks for resilient networks
Practice

Smart rail infrastructure: Laying the digital tracks for resilient networks

Adopting digital and AI advances can help rail infrastructure technology address long-standing challenges. Where should operators prioritize?…

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Labs

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.…

Labor Day, 2026
Policy

Labor Day, 2026

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation This Labor Day, we recognize the hard work, dedication, and unwavering commitment of the America…