Briefing

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery

AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (A…

Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a …

With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works toge…

How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory

To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost …

Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI…

ChinAI #372: China’s Overhyped Embodied AI Sector

Greetings from a world where……

Pitching day: Finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award

Pitching day: Finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/24/2026 - 10:19   20 October 2026 Watch the pitches of the top 10 fi…

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that co…

Sakana AI、防衛省から「総合分析業務に必要なAI機能の調査・実証」を受注

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.…

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihood…

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.…

dotnet-1.19.0

The Official Ruby SDK for MCP Reaches 1.0

The official Ruby SDK for the Model Context Protocol has reached version 1.0 with a stable public API and a 100% conformance pass rate. The SDK now meets every …

The New MCP Roadmap

An update on the Model Context Protocol roadmap and focus areas for upcoming specification releases.…

python-1.15.0

Claude Code v2.1.239

How agents can delegate better

In any organizational behavior class, students will learn that effective delegation is among the most important skills for a seasoned leader. Getting meaningful…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security …

A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers

Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS

Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue t…

Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression

Input tokens are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. This post describes a query-aware context compres…

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Co…

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-…

Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams

Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message t…

The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack

The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work …

Changelog - 8/20/26

Two weeks ago, we launched a very rough draft of some big changes to alpha.midjourney.com. Since then, thousands of you have been testing and hundreds have give…

How I built this

Ben’s session #3…

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonst…

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.…