Briefing

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

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

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

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

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…

Apply AI Summit

Apply AI Summit Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/07/2026 - 15:58   17 November 2026 The Apply AI Summit will gather high-level stakeholders – from industri…

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story…

Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine

OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.…

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used thei…

GS Caltex’s Saehong Hur: Leading from the top; moving forward—together

For Saehong Hur, continued communication and an integrated mindset are vital for adapting to changing market needs and maximizing value.…

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.…

An Alien Mind

Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.…

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.…

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."…

OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports incidents involving AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company ma…

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.…

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control t…

Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant that takes customer orders through text, voice notes, and real-time voice calls on a single busines…

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31

This week, GitHub Copilot expands model choice and content protections, while VS Code adds new ways to manage agent sessions and get pull requests merge-ready. …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Promotes Fair Competition in Livestock Markets and Expands Market Access for American Meat Producers

ADVANCING COMPETITION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to support American producers’ ability to butcher, pro…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Supports America’s Ranchers

DEFENDING AND STRENGTHENING OUR NATION’S VITAL RANCHING INDUSTRY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching a whole-of-governmen…

Promoting Fair Competition In Livestock Markets And Expanding Market Access for American Meat Producers

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. American …

Supporting America’s Ranchers

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. Ranchers p…

GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI’s latest general-purpose model, GPT-6 Astra, is designed for long-horizon, autonomous c…

Claude Code v2.1.261

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or a…

Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in…

Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory

Long-running AI agents accumulate outdated memories that degrade quality and create compliance risk. Learn how to design memory lifecycle policies for Amazon Be…

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the…