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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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OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups
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OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups

OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems. Some individual o…

Deepseek is designing its own AI chip
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Deepseek is designing its own AI chip

Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports. The article Deepseek is designing its own AI chip appeared first on The Decoder.…

From the C-suite to the boardroom: Christiana Smith Shi on what it takes
Practice

From the C-suite to the boardroom: Christiana Smith Shi on what it takes

For executives, the developmental opportunity may be clear, but what does board service really entail?…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community
Labs

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in phys…

Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova
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Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova

In this post, we introduce Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO), the novel unlearning technique behind Amazon Nova Customizable Content Moderation Sett…

From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
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From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click

Today, we’re excited to announce a deep-link integration between Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI. Developers can now go from model discovery to hands-on ex…

Claude Code v2.1.202
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.202

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.8
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.8

Building America’s innovation engine: An interview with David Lebryk
Practice

Building America’s innovation engine: An interview with David Lebryk

The former US Treasury official shares how government can deliver in moments of crisis and how America’s public–private sector dynamic can help fuel its next er…

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Agents

langgraph==1.2.8

Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.…

Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
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Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers

Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all…

President Trump Rings in Trump Accounts with Historic Opening Bell Ceremony from the Oval Office
Policy

President Trump Rings in Trump Accounts with Historic Opening Bell Ceremony from the Oval Office

In a historic first, President Donald J. Trump today rang the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ from the Oval Office, marking the off…

GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
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GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top

OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, far longer than any model since. Since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the l…

Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are a…

Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a …

Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI
Practice

Why accelerated resource allocation matters in the age of AI

In an era of rapid AI disruption, the winners may not be the companies that predict the future most accurately, but those that learn, reallocate resources, and …

Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
Research

Your family’s $300 stake in 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. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’…

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.
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If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.…

Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI
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Streaming benchmark and recommendation results to MLflow with Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you learn how to use the new MLflow integration with Amazon SageMaker AI optimized inference recommendation jobs and Amazon SageMaker AI benchmark…

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova
Practice

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including …

Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Practice

Deploying Multi-Turn RL Infrastructure for Amazon Nova on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

In this post, you deploy a two-phase infrastructure for multi-turn RL using Amazon Nova Forge on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. By the end, you have an event-driven…

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we walk through how to get started with MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock, including the capabilities supported by these models, the service tiers …

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research
Labs

How Open Models Are Driving AI Research

Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work. This year’s accept…

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle
Practice

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into …

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities
Labs

How Nations Are Deploying AI for Strategic Priorities

Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in …

A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity
Practice

A microscope on small businesses: Chile’s productivity opportunity

Overcoming scale-related barriers and strengthening ties with other firms—both large and small—can help small businesses in Chile maximize their potential and n…

China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas
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China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down the features that let users build and chat with custom AI companions, responding to new regulations from Beijing. The ar…

Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop
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Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop

Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has been delayed more than a year to 2028 because of circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm…