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How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system
Practice

How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system

Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to handle the complexity of sports betting: state-specific rules, real-time respo…

Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines
Practice

Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines

In this post, you learn three serverless patterns (task-token callback, direct service integration, and durable functions) for invoking Amazon Bedrock AgentCore…

Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator
Practice

Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator

Classifying, extracting, and validating high volumes of documents is a challenge across banking, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector. See how a mid-siz…

Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore
Practice

Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports runtime domain and published-date filtering. New per-request filters give developers per-call control over w…

Claude Code v2.1.236
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.236

5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Labs

5 new ways to level up your learning with Search

Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests.…

langgraph-sdk==0.4.3
Agents

langgraph-sdk==0.4.3

Advancing American healthcare: An interview with Seema Verma
Practice

Advancing American healthcare: An interview with Seema Verma

A former CMS administrator and current Oracle Health and Life Sciences executive discusses leadership, public–private collaboration, and the promise of AI and v…

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
Labs

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.…

Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter: Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Model Routing
Practice

Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter: Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Model Routing

Today, OpenRouter announced that they have entered into an agreement to be acquired by Stripe, three years from when it was launched in 2023. OpenRouter launche…

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna
Labs

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.…

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Briefing

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analys…

Some hard questions about a world of plenty
Practice

Some hard questions about a world of plenty

Plenty may be possible—but what would it take to make it probable?…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.0
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.0

Michelle Williams on why public health is public wealth
Practice

Michelle Williams on why public health is public wealth

Michelle Williams, a leading voice in epidemiology and public health, advocates that society view the health of a population not as charity but as infrastructur…

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe
Labs

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.…

Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles
Policy

Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1.  In Proclamation 11046 of July 20, 2026 (Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian D…

Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
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Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrat…

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work
Labs

How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.…

Claude Code v2.1.235
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.235

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including i…

President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History
Policy

President Trump Delivers the Largest Drop in Violent Crime in American History

President Donald J. Trump and his Administration have delivered the most dramatic decline in violent crime in American history. According to the FBI’s newly rel…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Practice

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-a…

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Labs

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.…

Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security
Labs

Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expert…

Reinventing the European pulp and paper operating model
Practice

Reinventing the European pulp and paper operating model

Europe’s pulp and paper industry faces weaker demand, rising costs, and growing competition. The next frontier will focus on operations, commercial management, …

Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we describe how AIDA works at a high level and how it helps address these challenges — grounding users in the right contracts, under the right leg…

How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS
Practice

How Jumio built a real-time feature store on AWS

Learn how Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kin…

Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock

Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analy…

Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Practice

Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application

Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container …