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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
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Hex 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.…

Claude Code v2.1.277
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Claude Code v2.1.277

dotnet-1.22.0
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dotnet-1.22.0

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror

Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…