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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
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President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada’s Free Ride
Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades — and President Donald J. Trump is done letting them get away with it. Last week, the U.S. offered Can…
Can upstream oil and gas produce value from AI’s $230 billion pay zone?
AI could unlock $230 billion for oil and gas and OFSE companies. The challenge is where to concentrate, how to scale, and how to share value when efficiency red…
Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.…

Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Build a governed weekly reporting workflow with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. An Amazon S3 access point exposes an approved folder to a …
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower…

5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search
Learn how to use Google Search tools to find home decor inspiration, shop for furniture, and tackle DIY projects.…
The Entertainment Industry’s Biggest Names Back Stability AI in Latest Funding Round
We've closed our Series B, bringing total funding to $232M under new leadership. This round welcomes entertainment titans Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Uni…
Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference
Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern mod…

Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technolo…

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post publis…

Presidential Message on Overdose and Drug Poisoning Awareness Week
During Overdose and Drug Poisoning Awareness Week, our Nation renews its resolve to defeat the scourge of illicit drugs and synthetic poisons that have devastat…

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McKinsey’s Fangning Zhang on China’s growing role in life sciences R&D
McKinsey partner Fangning Zhang discusses what’s driving China’s acceleration in drug discovery, why intense competition is fueling speed and cost efficiency, a…

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specif…

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, interna…
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
Organizations are deploying agentic coding tools and coming to grips with the costs of AI while still seeking to capture more of the benefits that their workers…

OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing e…

I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.
Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embeddin…
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.…
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Operation Economic Outcast: Total Isolation of the Iranian Regime
Today, the Trump Administration unleashed Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining economic lifeline sustaining the Islami…

Presidential Message on National Park Week
America’s vast and wondrous national parks stand at the heart of our story, preserving the lands our ancestors cherished and the unmatched splendor of a contine…
Where AI agents pay off: A practical guide to the economics of agentic workflows
Early experience implementing agentic workflows highlights emerging trade-offs that frontline leaders need to understand.…

Democratizing institutional knowledge: Building an AI-powered knowledge management system with AWS
Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-…

Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers managed Ray support on Amazon EKS. Create and monitor Ray clusters, connect JupyterLab and Code Editor notebooks to live cl…
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.…

President Trump Champions Educational Freedom — Putting Students and Parents First
Today, President Donald J. Trump welcomes students, parents, and education advocates to the White House to celebrate the start of a new school year. Under Presi…

AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization
Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered me…

Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect
Learn how to build a voice ordering system for restaurants that answers a phone call and takes an order end to end, with no app, no website, and no sign-in. It …