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Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers, in an apparent effort t…

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and M…

Grok Bot is not what you think

plus skills and tools to try with agents…

How instant payments are transforming the financial landscape

Lessons from markets around the world can help commercial payments players keep pace with a rapidly evolving environment.…

The Great Transshipment Scam

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How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a litt…

Driving value with an investor mindset

Long-term value creation is foundational to building strong companies and economies, yet many leaders struggle to ensure that well-conceived, well-executed stra…

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National Substance Use Primary Prevention Month, 2026

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This National Substance Use Primary Prevention Month, we renew our pledge to safeguard our child…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Expands Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime

THWARTING CYBER CRIMES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) empowering U.S. Federal law enforcement …

Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime

MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE SECRETARY OF WAR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE THE S…

Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app

You can now build a plugin once and use it across all compatible agent clients. We published Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6 with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenA…

Claude Code v2.1.229

How data science teams use ChatGPT Work

See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inpu…

How sales teams use ChatGPT Work

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real …

How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.…

Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS

Learn how to visualize and analyze Amazon Bedrock cost attribution using Amazon Athena and CUDOS dashboards. This post shows how to set up CUR 2.0 with IAM prin…

Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video

After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For…

Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stre…

How to maximize competitive advantage

Competitive advantage is becoming much more fluid as market positions shift faster across industries, with advantages eroding and differentiation narrowing. Des…

The $106 trillion infrastructure opportunity: Private market outlook

Infrastructure is at a pivotal inflection point: its definition is expanding beyond traditional assets to digital and interconnected systems, demanding a fundam…

MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities

A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen s…

Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the …

Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health

The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition.…

Scaling minimobility: Industry leaders weigh in on what’s needed

We asked some of the leading players in minimobility to share their insights into what’s preventing broader adoption—and what could enable it. Here’s what they …

AI transformations run on trust

Technology may power AI transformation, but people determine whether it succeeds. Leaders can build trust through transparency, clarity, and investment in emplo…

Joseph Tsai: Putting customers at the heart of innovation

Joseph Tsai has reshaped Cathay United Bank by balancing innovation with a long-term view that consistently focuses on the customer.…

Improving private equity exit prospects

In today’s tougher exit environment, private equity firms are facing longer holding periods, valuation gaps, and increased pressure to return capital. Kai Vollh…

Tiered KV cache for large LLMs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Curvine

Running large language model inference at scale forces a KV cache trade-off: oversized GPU instances or slow time-to-first-token. This post builds a tiered KV c…