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From drift to dynamism: Reinventing Japan to compete in a new era

Bold actions to spur corporate dynamism can unlock transformational opportunities for Japan in a new era and reset its growth trajectory.…

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey respon…

From Japan, Products the World Will Use: An Interview with Sakana AI’s Head of Product Development

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How utilities can rewire customer operations with agentic AI

Faced with declining customer satisfaction, North American utilities are turning to agentic AI to transform the customer experience for the better while reducin…

The shift to 800-volt DC at data centers: Implications for providers

As AI increases energy demand, data centers are moving to higher voltage systems, creating new opportunities for electricity and component providers.…

Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Recoverable Critical Minerals and Materials

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Recov…

Presidential Permit: Authorizing Cameron County, Texas, To Own, Operate, and Maintain the Brownsville and Matamoros Bridge in Brownsville, Texas

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America (the “President”), I hereby grant permission, subject to the co…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Delegates Defense Production Act Authority with Respect to Recoverable Critical Minerals and Materials That Are Essential to Our National Defense

SECURING AMERICA’S SUPPLY CHAINS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Determination delegating authority under the Defense Production Ac…

Author Talks: The daily practices that lead to exceptional performance

What separates good from exceptional? Learning Leader Show host Ryan Hawk reveals why disciplined daily habits and purposeful ambition are the foundation of hig…

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131, shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, an…

A properties panel and annotations, now in Figma Make

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI wri…

Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS

This post walks through deploying Kimi K3 on AWS using two approaches: Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and  Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clust…

Building agent teams with Agent Framework, GitHub Copilot CLI and Squad

Microsoft Agent Framework supports creating agents that use the GitHub Copilot SDK as their backend. GitHub Copilot agents provide access to powerful coding-ori…

Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick

Learn how to build an inference meta-monitoring system for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints using Amazon Quick. This governance layer sits above production ML infe…

How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how Yahoo implemented Amazon Bedrock to enhance their Search Retargeting (SRT) capabilities in the Yahoo DSP ad tech suite. SRT is …

Limit remote control to managed devices

Enterprises and organizations can now restrict which devices are eligible to host remotely controlled Copilot sessions, giving administrators fine-grained contr…

Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply …

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.…

Migrate your prompts to new models and optimize them on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes your prompts for up to 5 models at once and compares original versus optimized performance across quality,…

Do more with less: How GKE can reduce your cost per agent by 75%

In today’s agentic era, modern cloud applications are evolving from a set of passive tools to fleets of autonomous digital workers that reason, plan, and take a…

Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, along with explicit prompt caching that gives you precise control over which …

EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge

LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn an…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update

July 2026 brought a new agent based on the Copilot SDK, built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams, and more ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to how you and&…

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and m…