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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: President Trump Declassifies Intel on Foreign Election Interference and Deep State Coverup
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: President Trump Declassifies Intel on Foreign Election Interference and Deep State Coverup

Last night, President Donald J. Trump released newly declassified intelligence that had been hidden from the American people for years. The documents reveal tha…

AI in the Australian for-purpose sector: Laying a strong foundation
Practice

AI in the Australian for-purpose sector: Laying a strong foundation

AI adoption in Australian for-purpose organisations is growing, but without a considered approach, AI can add pressure and prioritise output over outcomes. How …

In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
Practice

In-House LLM Serving at Netflix

Copilot code review: Customization and configurability improvements
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Copilot code review: Customization and configurability improvements

Copilot code review now utilizes a firewall, custom setup steps, and independent runner configurations. It now reads custom instructions from the head branch to…

GitHub Copilot app now available in the usage metrics API
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GitHub Copilot app now available in the usage metrics API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports the GitHub Copilot app usage in the enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports. This gives enterprise and or…

Repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics generally available
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Repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics generally available

The Copilot usage metrics REST API now reports repository-level activity. Two new endpoints return a daily, per-repository breakdown of pull request activity fo…

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: President Trump Exposes Bombshell Evidence of Foreign Election Interference and Deep State Suppression
Policy

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: President Trump Exposes Bombshell Evidence of Foreign Election Interference and Deep State Suppression

In a powerful primetime address, President Donald J. Trump released newly declassified documents that reveal foreign election interference, serious vulnerabilit…

Introducing Mobile Layout for Amazon Quick dashboards
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Introducing Mobile Layout for Amazon Quick dashboards

Teams that rely on dashboards for daily decisions often must pinch and zoom to interact with controls originally designed for larger displays. Checking revenue …

Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate
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Transform your sales organization with Amazon Quick: your new agentic AI teammate

In this post, we walk through a few ways that Quick delivers on this promise. We cover the entire sales cycle, from identifying your highest-priority prospect, …

13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we’re sharing 13 demos that w…

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS
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How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, go…

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads – a Key Metric for Agentic AI
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads – a Key Metric for Agentic AI

Lowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.…

Pricing in distribution: A strategic growth engine
Practice

Pricing in distribution: A strategic growth engine

Pricing is a critical value creation lever for distributors to respond to market challenges. Here are four capabilities critical to unlocking pricing’s power.…

A scorecard for the AI age
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A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on comp…

Advanced Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Platform - Annual Event
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Advanced Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Platform - Annual Event

Advanced Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Platform - Annual Event Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/17/2026 - 11:30   20 October 2026 - 21 October 2026   Brus…

Will you fly—or freeze? How founders can build enduring companies beyond $10 billion
Practice

Will you fly—or freeze? How founders can build enduring companies beyond $10 billion

Many founder-led companies freeze at the $1 billion to $10 billion valuation stage. Those that scale reinvent their business, people—and themselves—at five key …

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Research

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecas…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.3
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OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.3

Claude Code v2.1.212
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.212

Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism
Policy

Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism

Today, the Trump Administration convened senior officials from governments around the world to launch an unprecedented global offensive against the transnationa…

AI’s next big mission is rewiring your workplace
Practice

AI’s next big mission is rewiring your workplace

Artificial intelligence is reshaping every business, but the hardest challenge is rewiring the company around it. Companies that bet on equipping good staff wit…

Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
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Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms. Google received the furthest an…

Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock

This post covers what makes Grok 4.3 a great fit for agentic and enterprise workloads, how you access it through Amazon Bedrock, and how to use the capabilities…

Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
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Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

In this post, we walk through the three pillars that make this possible: simplified setup, smarter retrieval, and production readiness. We also show you code ex…

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
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The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a…

Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
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Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic

In this post, we show you how to build a voice ordering system that answers a phone number and takes the order from greeting to confirmation. The system uses Am…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: How AI leverages deep context as the defender’s advantage

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial rol…

Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades
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Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades

Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model …

Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make
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Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make

How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
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How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams acr…