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Escaping the pilot trap: Building HR for the agentic era

Organizations that create the most effective agentic HR functions don’t just scale pilots. They define the human–agent operating model for the function first, t…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.19.3

Apple is getting this wrong

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.…

The McKinsey Crossword: GEoPolitics | No. 267

Sharpen your problem-solving skills with the McKinsey Quarterly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind and is built around a subtl…

Trigger Copilot automations with comments

You can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created. Common use cases include: Generate documen…

Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent

When you delegate a task to GitHub Copilot cloud agent, you can now set the reasoning level for models that support it. This allows you to control how much the&…

Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), …

Enterprise team specialization for managed settings

Enterprise administrators can now customize managed settings by targeting enterprise teams with itemized configuration files. Large enterprises can scale govern…

Claude Code v2.1.221

Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.…

Establishing the President’s Military Spouse Commission

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. Purpose and Policy…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the President’s Military Spouse Commission

STRENGTHENING MILITARY READINESS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Military Spouse Commission to strengthen mili…

Under President Trump, U.S. Factories Expand at Fastest Clip in More Than Four Years

U.S. manufacturing activity surged in July at the strongest rate in more than four years — driven by soaring demand, record production, and a wave of new hiring…

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usuall…

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.…

From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations

Formula 1® partnered with AWS to build the Data Accelerator, using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to transform its MarTech data platform. Learn how F1 c…

Real-world mainframe modernization with AI: A safe, scalable path from mainframe to cloud

For too long, enterprises with legacy mainframe estates have been faced with a high-stakes dilemma: continue maintaining their mainframes, essentially kicking t…

Automated Reasoning policy refinement in Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports automatic Automated Reasoning policy refinement. The refinement engine diagnoses failing tests and proposes formal-logic fixes for r…

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong …

Code, craft, and the making of nested folders

Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard

Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.…

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

When do we build the moon arcology?…

ChinAI #369: My Boss Wants Me to Run Kimi K3, What Should I Do?

Greetings from a world where……

China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivalling the best systems from US fro…

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more fro…

Sakana AI、日本語特化のLLM API「Sakana Namazu」を提供開始

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew…

Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. Th…

Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier

Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.…

This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.…