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Made in America: Manufacturing, Private Hiring Power Explosive August Jobs Report

“America added 162,000 jobs in August — triple economists’ expectations. The private sector has now created over one million jobs under President Trump, whose r…

Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption

When Google's Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model…

How Intuit built an agentic disaster recovery assistant with Amazon Bedrock

Disaster recovery at scale is hard. Learn how Intuit built EWOK Agent, an agentic disaster recovery assistant on Amazon Bedrock that lets on-call engineers run …

Customizing your knowledge base on Amazon Bedrock for large and complex documents using Amazon Textract

Learn how to customize an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base for large, complex documents by combining the high-accuracy text extraction of Amazon Textract with the …

Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart

HyperPod InstantStart is an open source control plane that composes Amazon EKS orchestration with the managed capabilities of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. It driv…

Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod

Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, …

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Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials stayi…

Native memory for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Cosmos DB

Agents are more useful when they can remember what matters beyond the current conversation. Today, we’re announcing a new preview integration that gives M…

Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have…

Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a "messy rollout" after paying users expecting acc…

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimiz…

Why AI food looks like that

There is a torrent of unappetizing slop coming from restaurants, cafes, and brands that are increasingly turning to AI to generate images promoting their food. …

Voices on Quality: Unlocking warranty value in consumer automotive

Warranty and goodwill costs automotive OEMs billions each year, but a more strategic approach can deliver significant P&L and cash impact within 12 to 24 months…

This NAS company wants to run your local smart home

Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the …

Utilities at an inflection point: Four strategic evolutions ahead

European utilities face a period of discontinuity: Electrification, renewables, flexibility needs, AI, and policy shifts are reshaping economics, driving four s…

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Author Talks: What the world’s best owner-CEOs get right

How do exceptional leaders create enduring institutions? Three McKinsey authors reveal the leadership core behaviors and mindsets behind Asia’s most successful …

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.…

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.…

The power of purpose, culture, and grit: An interview with JoAnne Bass

The Air Force’s former top enlisted leader reflects on the value of lifelong learning, writing your own playbook, and preparing the next generation to serve.…

Shapers and founders: The traits behind outsized value creation in Asia

A set of common traits underlies Asian founders’ success: Passion for their work, ongoing curiosity, boundless energy, and a strong belief in their people.…

Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Gemini 3.8 Flash performed strongly on complex te…

Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) o…

Alpha Changelog - 9/2/26

Thank you for all of your dedicated testing, feedback, and bug reports over the last two weeks! We pushed a huge update to alpha.midjourney.com, stacked on a lo…

Collecting ideas to improve Midjourney

Hey everyone! We're starting to look for feedback and ideas for what we should be prioritizing and working on next at Midjourney please submit your ideas h…

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software…

Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow…

Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra

Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.…

Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate

Learn best practices for building production-grade, agent-based business process automations with Amazon Quick Automate: choosing the right process, designing f…