Briefing
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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30 storiesHex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.…

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers …

Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review
Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in the first half of 2026 across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod I…
The transformer supercycle: Why demand is outrunning supply
A new era of increased demand and constrained supply is fundamentally changing the global transformer market and reshaping decision-making across the value chai…

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: President Trump Delivers Historic Victories for America’s Hunters, Anglers, and Outdoorsmen
President Donald J. Trump is delivering on his promises to America’s outdoorsmen by cutting red tape, removing burdensome and unnecessary restrictions levied by…

Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-October
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) o…
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 14
This week, GitHub Copilot adds new model selection options, code review updates, and Sentry integration in the Copilot app. There are also updates for admins, p…

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.…

Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center develop…
The $2.3 trillion horizon: How AI is rewriting the semiconductor story
AI is fueling unprecedented semiconductor growth while upending long-standing industry dynamics and shifting the sources of value.…
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Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.…

The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency…

Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out for…

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already ha…

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier mode…

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision…

Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror

Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
Migrate a multi-model healthcare AI agent from self-managed Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, preserving triple-model orchestrati…

Changing the game: How Google uses agentic AI to secure hundreds of millions of lines of code
AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging …

Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Cl…
Author Talks: How to turn hope into action
What compels us to act when we see a problem? Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation CEO Jim Bildner reflects on social entrepreneurship, personal loss, and how hope…

Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents
Deploy production-ready Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI using six open-source agent skills. Point a coding agent at a model and get back a real-time …

The new AgentCore runtime: Elastic, optimized, and consistently fast starts
Today we are announcing the new AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore built for the speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency that productio…

Data Union Conference
Data Union Conference Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/18/2026 - 09:43 12 January 2027 Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium Bringing policymake…

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.…

Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inferenc…

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google
Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.…
Cutting the ‘coordination tax’: How agentic AI can reshape workflows
Organizations must redesign workflows to realize value from AI, but the challenge is where to begin. An opportunity lies between workflow steps, where work pass…