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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…

How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock

Business intelligence dashboards can fail silently, showing blank, stale, or wrong data even when every infrastructure monitor reports healthy. Learn how an AWS…

Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS

Learn how to build a generative AI-based support operations platform on AWS that converts training videos into structured SOPs, applies Retrieval-Augmented Gene…

Amazon’s AI assistant can now spot fake emails from the company

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone …

Private equity confirms a timeless principle: Purchase price matters

Recent data shows that buyout firms that maintain strict price discipline are delivering significantly higher MOIC than their peers.…

The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit…

Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real …

Presidential Message on National Recovery Month

During National Recovery Month, we celebrate the more than 23 million Americans who have found a pathway from addiction to recovery, we recognize those who have…

Presidential Message on National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

This National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, my Administration stands with the countless children facing the devastating effects of cancer.  We recogniz…

Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness

AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage…

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a…

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.…

Ten Times Extreme Liberal Democrats in Congress Put Their Dangerous Agenda Ahead of the American People

President Trump and Republicans have passed legislation that has put more money in hardworking American’s pockets and made communities safer nationwide. At ever…

Why progress is more physical than we think

From tomatoes and copper to data centers and steel, the modern economy depends on a material world hidden in plain sight.…

How Coinbase used Code Connect to guide agents and shrink token costs

Climbing higher: Securing Switzerland’s competitiveness in a changing landscape

Switzerland remains one of Europe’s most attractive locations for multinationals—but attractiveness is no longer self-sustaining. The question is not whether it…

Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated

As of today, September 1, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and ag…

Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Fable 5.1 from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot. The latest model in Anthropic’s Mythos class, Claude Fable 5.1 is designed for long-ho…

How law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI

See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.…

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI mo…

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The co…

Claude Code v2.1.258

OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Ast…

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026…

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automate…