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Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific

Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through …

One Year Later: President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Are Delivering for American Workers

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday this week, our nation is stronger with President Trump at the helm— a leader who believes that people who work ha…

dotnet-1.13.0

Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs

Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports. In June 2026, 21 organizations reported about 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs, more than …

Claude Code v2.1.200

UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do

In a study covering seven benchmarks, the UK's AI Security Institute shows that standard AI evaluations systematically underestimate agent capabilities by cappi…

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The article Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200…

Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

Mark Zuckerberg admitted to weaknesses in the company's restructuring during an internal town hall. The AI agents Meta reorganized around are progressing slower…

GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public

The hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab report that a finely tuned open-weight model outperforms the most powerful AI models in the evaluation of f…

Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO

Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The article Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up …

A dual transformation agenda for Europe’s chemicals industry

The strongest chemical company transformations in Europe perform a difficult balancing act: improving performance while radically reshaping portfolios, operatio…

Upcoming deprecation of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash

We will deprecate Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code c…

Improved accuracy and coverage in Copilot usage metrics reports

We’ve made three improvements to the Copilot usage metrics API that make its reports more complete and accurate: GitHub Copilot CLI now reports suggested …

Claude Code v2.1.199

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Copilot CLI no longer needs a personal access token in GitHub Actions

You can now run GitHub Copilot CLI in GitHub Actions using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. This means that you no longer need to create and store a personal access t…

Copilot agent session streaming is now in public preview

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with enterprise managed users can now access GitHub Copilot agent session data across all Copilot clients, including: Cloud ag…

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Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients

Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in a new unit called "Frontier Company" that puts 6,000 engineers directly at enterprise customers. The goal is to integrate…

Issue no.17: Build with joy

Cost centers now support AI credit pools

You can now cap how much of your enterprise’s monthly included AI credits a cost center can use. This is available through the REST API today. Management …

Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters

Anthropic is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip. The project is still early, but Anthropic has already hired chip…

The real future of work in healthcare

Healthcare is in a productivity crisis that more hiring and more technology alone will not solve. The next era of care depends on making automation work through…

Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we share best practices for reliable multi-turn RL training. We cover how to build a training environment you can trust, set up an external evalua…

How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new chall…

dotnet-1.12.0

Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"

Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examp…

Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM

Google has expanded NotebookLM to include video overviews in the short format commonly used on social media. The article Google brings TikTok-style video shorts…