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Set up OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock

Deploy a customer-operated LiteLLM gateway on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, connect it to an OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock, and configure Codex to route request…

Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation

Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-e…

Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

An agent that works in a notebook is not an agent in production. This post walks through migrating a LangGraph customer support agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCor…

AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) often struggle to turn concepts into working code. This post walks through two reference…

Reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise signups

We’re gradually reopening sign-ups for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal over the next couple of weeks. If…

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents …

Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center

Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Olla…

Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversatio…

Embed Quick Sight visuals using Cognito user authentication

Learn how to embed individual Amazon Quick Sight visuals into a React application with per-user access control. This walkthrough uses Amazon Cognito authenticat…

Google says its AI weather model is getting better

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that's supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announce…

At last, customers first: AI-powered personalization can help banks create value

Banks can better compete against digital-first rivals by using AI to deliver more effective, hyperpersonalized customer engagement. Here are four key components…

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‘NBA 2K27’ With NVIDIA DLSS 5 Leads 26 New Games Coming to GeForce NOW

September is here with 26 more games streaming on GeForce NOW this month, led by a slam dunk: NBA 2K27 with the NVIDIA DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering feature…

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools unde…

NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infr…

Made in America, again? Rethinking US manufacturing resilience

Rebuilding American manufacturing could cost up to $2 trillion. What will it take to get today’s factories up to speed?…

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The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes…

Congressional Bill H.R. 6500 Signed into Law

On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the President signed into law: H.R. 6500, the “Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027,” which includes …

President Trump Secures the Biggest Oil Deal in World History

President Trump has secured the biggest oil deal in world history, delivering U.S. majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Ve…

ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.…

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G20 Innovation Ministerial Concludes with Consensus Statement

Today, G20 member ministers concluded a two-day Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Ministerial was hosted by the Department of Commerce …

Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference

Australian teams can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference from the Asia Pacific (Sydney) a…

Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI

The GitHub Copilot app and Copilot CLI now respect content exclusion policies configured by enterprise, organization, and repository administrators. Copilot won…

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by perf…

Presidential Message on National Preparedness Month

America has always been a nation of strong, capable, and determined people who understand that strength must be built before crisis.  Preparedness builds t…

Enterprise-managed settings support any default model

You can now set your preferred GitHub Copilot model as the default for new conversations through enterprise-managed settings. This lets you choose the default m…

Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities

Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-a…

From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how a global interdealer broker built an automated architecture documentation pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that analyzes .NET code bases, generate…