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Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments

OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.…

Now everyone can put data to work

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.…

How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules

César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.…

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.…

Brilliant Moves: Coffee with Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn

Drawing on two decades of collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group’s Charlie Nunn and McKinsey’s Tunde Olanrewaju explore how trust, curiosity, and optimism help lea…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces the Working Families Obamacare Refunds

RETURNING BIDEN OVERCHARGES TO WORKING FAMILIES: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the federal government will return to the American people …

Why the current tech backlash feels different

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other prob…

Procurement at the decision-making table: A talk with Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta

Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta shares how a persistently uncertain world has driven an evolution in the role and capabilities of procurement.…

Everyone needs a Muse

ChatGPT images got better, again…

d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment

AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platfo…

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erup…

The power conversion market: Decarbonization and growth opportunities

Efficient, reliable power conversion technologies are critical for global electrification. With an expected value pool of about $95 billion in 2030, opportuniti…

Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of loa…

Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data

Cloudera and Mistral join forces to bring specialized, sovereign AI intelligence to enterprise data, helping regulated industries innovate on their own terms.…

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Is progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?

A new podcast series based on the McKinsey Global Institute’s most recent book explains why another century of broad-based human progress is within reach.…

The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change

AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact helps us see what could influence…

First Lady Melania Trump’s Personal Vision to Preserve America’s Story Through Superior Design

First Lady Melania Trump shared her forward-looking vision on the generational significance of institutional design, declaring that, “The White House stands as …

Patriot Day 2026, The 25th Anniversary of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION A quarter of a century has passed since the terrible day of September 11, 2001, and an…

The AI policy window is open. We need to act.

Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains …

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Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

Learn how to deploy Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. This walkthrough covers cluster provi…

GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work

Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.…

Enterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations

If you administer GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise, you can now centrally control which agent operations are blocked, require human approval…

Author Talks: Why leadership intelligence matters in the AI age

Lessons from cognitive science can help leaders become wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient. McKinsey Senior Adviser Caroline Webb explains why human intel…

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Reg…

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Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI

Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18…

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants

We are excited to share that Gartner has named Google a Leader in its inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants. In this comprehensive evaluati…

How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Heurist built Heurist Finance, a conversational AI investment workbench, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This customer story shows how AgentCore payments…