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AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago

The Remote Labor Index measures how often AI agents complete paid freelance projects at professional quality. In eight months, the top automation rate has more …

Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business

Nvidia is increasingly acting like a central bank for AI startups, actively shaping the compute market. The article Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen …

Fable is back

and there's a new sonnet…

The serial builder advantage: Why repeat innovators win

New McKinsey research explains why organizations that repeatedly build new ventures outperform those that approach innovation as a one-off effort.…

OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company

OpenAI is reportedly offering the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company. What the government would give in return, if anything, is still uncl…

How Miro is redefining collaboration across the product development life cycle

Miro cofounder and CEO Andrey Khusid reflects on the company’s evolution from a digital whiteboard to an AI-powered workflow platform—and how AI is reshaping co…

NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Capital Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout

As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate…

Frontier Models Tracker: Every Major AI Model, Benchmark Score, and Release Update (2026)

AI Research: Best Sources for Papers, Breakthroughs & Global Progress (2026 Guide)

What to read next McKinsey’s 2026 annual book recommendations

McKinsey Global Publishing’s annual reading list is back, featuring compelling recommendations from a diverse group of leaders across the world. Our contributor…

McKinsey Global Publishing’s 2026 book picks

We asked McKinsey Global Publishing and Marketing colleagues to share what’s on their bookshelves this year—here’s what they said.…

Building accessibility into a canvas-based product

Enterprise managed-settings.json is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can configure AI standards through a managed-settings.json file maintained in a .github-private repository in a selected organ…

Enterprises can default to auto model selection

Enterprise administrators can now set model to auto in the enterprise managed-settings.json to make Copilot auto model selection the default for new conversatio…

Beta SDKs for the 2026-07-28 MCP Spec Release Candidate Are Here

Beta releases of the Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# SDKs are now available with support for the 2026-07-28 MCP specification release candidate. Here is what cha…

Claude Code v2.1.198

AI Lab Model Releases & Frontier Company News: Live Tracker (2026)

Frontier Signal: The Complete Guide to AI News, Research, Agents & Practice (Updated Weekly)

SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology

SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI smartphone that's supposedly thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI tech. The device runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chi…

New C++ language server config skill for Copilot CLI

The Microsoft C++ Language Server is now available as a plugin on the Copilot Plugins marketplace. It includes a new built-in setup skill that helps automate pr…

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduate…

Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity

Today, the Supreme Court affirmed President Donald J. Trump’s longstanding commitment to protect women and girls, ruling that states may reserve female athletic…

Got skills? Make the Figma agent a better collaborator

Copilot vision is generally available

Copilot vision is now generally available. You can attach images and PDFs directly to your chat prompts so Copilot can reason about what it sees alongside your …

Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weight model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. This is the first open-weight model offered as a selectable option in the Co…

AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leadin…

Building a serverless A2A gateway for agent discovery, routing, and access control

In this post, you will learn how to build a serverless A2A gateway on AWS that hosts multiple agents behind a single domain using path-based routing (/agents/{a…

Run NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

We're excited to introduce US-based frontier open-weight models in AWS GovCloud (US). With this release, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OS…

Set AI credit session limits in Copilot CLI and SDK

You can now set AI credit session limits in Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot SDK to cap the amount an agent spends in a session. This is especially useful&#82…

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.…