Briefing

Why teens deserve access to safe AI

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.…

Connect more of your apps to Search

You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.…

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.…

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords…

I've got an Inkling

links to read over the weekend…

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.…

Amid volatility, oil and gas M&A abounds. Here’s how to capture full value

Envisioning the deal’s full potential and sequencing integration initiatives makes the most of the current wave of oil and gas mergers and combinations.…

What the 2026 World Cup reveals about the next generation of sports fans

This year’s tournament offers a window into consumers’ changing behaviors, desire for community, and focus on identity—especially among Latino fans. Are busines…

Menlo’s Investment in Fireworks: The Runtime for Specialized Intelligence

AI inference is quickly becoming one of the largest markets in the world, and Fireworks is leading the expansion with its platform for specialized intelligence …

Commission accepts X’s action plan to comply with Digital Services Act

Commission accepts X’s action plan to comply with Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/16/2026 - 11:18 The European Commission has accepted X’s…

How B.TECH transformed into a technology-powered retailer

The Egyptian electronics retailer partnered with McKinsey to reinvent customer commerce through AI-powered pricing, fulfillment, and fintech—unlocking rapid gro…

The future of B2B sales: How growth champions rewire their playbooks with AI

AI pilots are everywhere, but value is not. Growth leaders rewire commercial impact journeys with agentic AI, enabling sellers to deepen customer relations and …

Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.…

Presidential Message on the Birthday of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Today, we celebrate the birthday of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini—a woman of boundless faith and limitless charity, a towering Italian American hero, and the fir…

Claude Code v2.1.211

Sakana AI Teams With NVIDIA to Advance Open Model Innovation from Japan

NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient …

How can the public sector meet the AI moment?

AI can help public sector agencies improve outcomes for residents and make every taxpayer dollar go further. But realizing that potential requires moving beyond…

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom …

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers

In this post, we walk you through the Computer Vision MCP Server, which illustrates this approach, representing how AI systems can process visual information an…

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Built partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), AWS Partner AND Digital, and AWS account teams to create a scalable, AI-powered document…

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them…

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last …

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.…

Measuring Balance of Payments Deficits

Balance-of-payments (BOP) deficits have occupied the attention of policymakers and economists for decades, and recent developments have brought renewed interest…

Is commercial aerospace ready for a demand reckoning?

A new survey reveals a widening gap between airline sentiment and the rest of the value chain.…

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking inf…

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)

Why AI apps fail in production (and how Google solved it) We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs…

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action

OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.…

The ‘bridge builder’ COO: Delivering results by engaging stakeholders

Today’s COOs work with an increasingly broad set of stakeholders. Success means understanding the “why” that drives each one.…