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

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Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
Practice

Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, where every transaction is authorized, attested in an AWS Nitro Enclave…

How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS
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How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS

Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMake…

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs
Labs

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from th…

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
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Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.…

I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Research

I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.…

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work
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From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.…

Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
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Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share…

Built to Run: Doubling Down for Lovable’s $400M Series C
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Built to Run: Doubling Down for Lovable’s $400M Series C

Last December, we co-led Lovable’s $330M Series B with a conviction: AI had opened software creation to the billion-plus knowledge workers who have ideas but ha…

Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
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Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,…

The untapped prize: Asia’s high-net-worth insurance market
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The untapped prize: Asia’s high-net-worth insurance market

The competition for Asia’s high-net-worth-individual market is underway. Insurers are well-placed to address evolving customer needs.…

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class
Labs

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobiliz…

Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock
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Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models…

Daybreak models are now available on AWS
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Daybreak models are now available on AWS

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.…

America First Means Ohio First: President Trump, Republicans Deliver for Ohio
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America First Means Ohio First: President Trump, Republicans Deliver for Ohio

Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to the Buckeye State for the Patriot Games finals — celebrating 250 years of American independence by honoring the exce…

Measuring time savings from Figma Make
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Measuring time savings from Figma Make

Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
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Copilot memory and Ollama in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

This update brings persistent memory, local model access, and more enterprise controls to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. It also improves everyday chat workflows…

Claude Code v2.1.228
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.228

ICYMI: “Violent crime keeps falling in biggest U.S. cities”
Policy

ICYMI: “Violent crime keeps falling in biggest U.S. cities”

A new mid-year crime report delivers more clear proof: President Donald J. Trump’s law-and-order agenda is crushing violent crime across America. According to t…

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
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MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision …

Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash
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Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash

With the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, we will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026: Model Deprecation date Su…

Another OpenAI executive takes off
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Another OpenAI executive takes off

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo…

AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.
Labs

AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.

Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.…

How AI-led commercial transformation can power industrial growth
Practice

How AI-led commercial transformation can power industrial growth

Industrial companies are entering the most consequential commercial reset in decades—and many are less prepared than they believe.…

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
Practice

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By descri…

How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock
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How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock

Photographers are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. Learn how Pixieset used Amazon Bedrock to launch an AI-generated alt text feature to mil…

How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC
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How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC

ONESTRUCTION, with technical advisory from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, built Ishigaki-IDS, a foundation model specialized for construction and BIM …

Deploying Anthropic Claude apps gateway for AWS for enterprise workloads
Practice

Deploying Anthropic Claude apps gateway for AWS for enterprise workloads

Claude apps gateway is a self-hosted governance layer between Claude Code and Claude Desktop and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. This post presents a …

Looker’s semantic layer governs Gemini Enterprise data for user trust
Practice

Looker’s semantic layer governs Gemini Enterprise data for user trust

For organizations deploying AI agents at scale, there’s often a critical divide between structured and unstructured data. While large language models (LLMs) exc…

Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
Research

Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-…

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Labs

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.

Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap f…