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Grad Detect: Gradient-Based Hallucination Detection in LLMs
Research

Grad Detect: Gradient-Based Hallucination Detection in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet they remain prone to generating hallucinations. Detecting these…

Less is More: Quality-Aware Training Data Selection for Scientific Summarization
Research

Less is More: Quality-Aware Training Data Selection for Scientific Summarization

Scientific long-document summarization datasets commonly treat author-written abstracts as gold reference summaries, although their quality and alignment with t…

DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers
Research

DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers

Diffusion transformer (DiT) research on image generation has converged to a single evaluation setup: class-conditional generation on ImageNet. While methods imp…

NVIDIA and AWS Collaborate to Bring AI to Production at Scale
Labs

NVIDIA and AWS Collaborate to Bring AI to Production at Scale

Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow wi…

White House Unveils President Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy
Policy

White House Unveils President Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy

The White House today released “President Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy,” a bold mandate that denies adversaries the ability to hold America and our…

Five client-led shifts reshaping European wealth management
Practice

Five client-led shifts reshaping European wealth management

Survey results point to changing consumer preferences that are disrupting and transforming the industry in Europe—and highlight the need for a new set of strate…

GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK
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GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK

The GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), so you can run agent sessions against your own model providers, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, M…

Claude Code v2.1.187
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.187

dotnet-1.11.0
Agents

dotnet-1.11.0

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI
Labs

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.…

Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy
Policy

Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Pu…

OMB Advances Revolutionary FAR Overhaul with Formal Publication of Regulatory Changes Proposed changes will make common sense the hallmark of federal contracting and help the world’s largest buyer accelerate mission delivery, save money, and strengthen competition
Policy

OMB Advances Revolutionary FAR Overhaul with Formal Publication of Regulatory Changes Proposed changes will make common sense the hallmark of federal contracting and help the world’s largest buyer accelerate mission delivery, save money, and strengthen competition

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced the first of three releases of proposed rules to implement the Revolutionary Federal Acqu…

Beyond productivity: How AI creates value in private equity
Practice

Beyond productivity: How AI creates value in private equity

Private equity–backed companies that broadly embrace AI have median revenue multiples more than twice those of companies focused solely on productivity initiati…

Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Shared infrastructure, isolated tenants: Pool model multi-tenancy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you will learn patterns for implementing production-ready multi-tenant systems using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will see these patterns demonst…

Verifiable, private AI: Google Cloud expands Confidential Computing frontiers
Practice

Verifiable, private AI: Google Cloud expands Confidential Computing frontiers

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing crypto…

Build a protein research copilot with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Build a protein research copilot with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

This post shows you how to build a conversational protein research assistant that combines three capabilities: Natural language query parsing to extract structu…

Copilot CLI: New terminal interface is generally available
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Copilot CLI: New terminal interface is generally available

The redesigned terminal interface for GitHub Copilot CLI that we previewed at Microsoft Build 2026 is now generally available. You get a tabbed layout for worki…

How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery
Labs

How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery

GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.…

Introducing Mistral OCR 4
Labs

Introducing Mistral OCR 4

Mistral OCR 4 delivers enterprise document AI with 170-language support, bounding boxes, and self-hosted deployment.…

Cursor announces its own AI model, a new Git platform, and a mobile app
Briefing

Cursor announces its own AI model, a new Git platform, and a mobile app

Cursor has revealed new details about its first AI model trained entirely in-house and announced two new products. The article Cursor announces its own AI model…

ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 breaks the 30-second barrier for AI video generation
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ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 breaks the 30-second barrier for AI video generation

ByteDance introduced five new AI models at Volcano Engine's FORCE conference. The centerpiece is Seedance 2.5, a video model set to launch in early July. The ar…

Record a skill
Briefing

Record a skill

5.5-cyber vs mythos…

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa
Policy

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa

On this day 81 years ago, American forces emerged victorious from the Battle of Okinawa, a grueling test of American might, will, and sacrifice that would echo …

Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI
Practice

Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI

Fifty years ago, Menlo made its first bet on a future that had not yet arrived. In 1976, venture capital was still more craft than industry, but that didn’t sto…

How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust
Labs

How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust

Companies are asking how to build specialized AI that fits with the way their workflows actually run. The first wave of enterprise AI was about access. Companie…

OpenAI says new GPT-5.5-Cyber outperforms Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark
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OpenAI says new GPT-5.5-Cyber outperforms Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

OpenAI is expanding its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative with an updated Codex Security plugin, the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model, and a partner network with more t…

AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact
Practice

AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact

As companies push their AI pilots to scale, data is emerging as a constraint. Leaders are prioritizing data readiness, connecting structured and unstructured da…

NVIDIA Powers Over 400 of the World’s 500 Fastest Supercomputers
Labs

NVIDIA Powers Over 400 of the World’s 500 Fastest Supercomputers

News Highlights: NVIDIA technology runs 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of the systems new to the list. 26 systems on the TOP500 adopted the NVIDIA Grace CPU, up eigh…

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel
Labs

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.…

GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation
Research

GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation

Before letting an agent operate over real context, can you prove it used the right evidence? GroundEval turns that question into a deterministic test of what th…