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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.…

Copilot harness generally available in Copilot for JetBrains
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Copilot harness generally available in Copilot for JetBrains

This update brings Copilot harness to generally availability. You also get more stable account, model, and MCP experiences. What’s new Copilot harness gen…

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24
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GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24

This week’s updates give you more control over how Copilot runs, from team sessions in Slack and Teams to customization across the app, CLI, and your IDE.…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update

August 2026 brought more control over how GitHub Copilot reasons, which models you use, how teams share specialized agents, and when you ask for a code review. …

How do you actually measure the impact of AI on design?
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How do you actually measure the impact of AI on design?

Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
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Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports two new APIs: BatchWriteRecord writes up to 25 records across multiple feature groups in a single call, and ListReco…

Establishing the United States Space Academy
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Establishing the United States Space Academy

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 and Policy…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes a Commission to Design the United States Space Academy
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes a Commission to Design the United States Space Academy

BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICAN SPACE LEADERS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to create a Presidential Commission to b…

Claude Code v2.1.251
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Claude Code v2.1.251

Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
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Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people …

The new management playbook for AI: How to move faster and create more value
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The new management playbook for AI: How to move faster and create more value

Scale is where the value is. Enabling scale depends on how strong your foundations are.…

MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale
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MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components
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Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components

Learn how Salesforce used Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Component placement (the SchedulingConfig parameter) to distribute model copies across multiple Availabi…

How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2
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How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2

Decathlon, one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, forecasts weekly demand for tens of thousands of products across multiple continents. Learn how …

How I built this
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How I built this

Ben’s session #4…

Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing
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Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing

To provide a strong, consistent Copilot experience, we’re making three separate, upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing. Please review the upcom…

Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
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Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.…

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
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Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rol…

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.…

Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal
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Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent ha…

Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities
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Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities

Copilot code review can now review two types of pull requests it didn’t cover before: Reviews requested automatically on pull requests authored by bots, i…

Edit Model for V8
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Edit Model for V8

Hey everyone! Today we’re gonna start letting everyone test our first V8.2 image edit model! This model supports:Editing images with instructions&#x…

python-1.16.0
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python-1.16.0

Consumers don’t trust AI advice. They turn to it anyway.
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Consumers don’t trust AI advice. They turn to it anyway.

Consumer behavior is more dynamic and unpredictable than ever. Our latest research highlights four converging trends redefining how consumers shop, what they va…

langgraph-sdk==0.4.4
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langgraph-sdk==0.4.4

Claude Code v2.1.248
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Claude Code v2.1.248

Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to brin…

Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America
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Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America

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 and Policy…

NEVER SURRENDER: Karoline Leavitt’s Historic Tenure as White House Press Secretary
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NEVER SURRENDER: Karoline Leavitt’s Historic Tenure as White House Press Secretary

Today, Karoline Leavitt completes her final day as the 36th White House Press Secretary — the youngest person to ever hold the position and among the best ever …

Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing …