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Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
Research

Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.

On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us…

python-1.19.0
Agents

python-1.19.0

Claude Code v2.1.276
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.276

Introducing Sakana AI’s Frontier Intelligence Group (FIG)
Labs

Introducing Sakana AI’s Frontier Intelligence Group (FIG)

Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage
Policy

Reinvigorating America’s Hunting Heritage

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 Restores American Saltwater Angling and Recreation
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores American Saltwater Angling and Recreation

MODERNIZING MANAGEMENT AND EXPANDING PUBLIC ACCESS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to modernize Federal fisheries management, e…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinvigorates America’s Hunting Heritage
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinvigorates America’s Hunting Heritage

EXPANDING ACCESS AND PROMOTING AMERICA’S HUNTING HERITAGE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to expand access to America’s public …

Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API
Create

Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API

GitHub Copilot expands existing CLI report coverage with agentic activity metrics for skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash command…

Copilot impact dashboard now shows feature engagement
Create

Copilot impact dashboard now shows feature engagement

The Copilot impact dashboard now shows how many active users regularly use key Copilot features. Enterprise administrators can quickly see which experiences are…

H3 Max: Built with fal Inference and Training
Create

H3 Max: Built with fal Inference and Training

H3 Max generates a 5-second video in under 3 seconds. In our human preference evaluations against twelve leading video models, it ranks first on quality, prompt…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.3
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.3

Claude Code v2.1.275
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.275

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Labs

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters mo…

Introducing Astra for Law
Labs

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.…

Here’s why some US industrial companies achieve higher multiples
Practice

Here’s why some US industrial companies achieve higher multiples

Not every industrial company in a high-growth market earns a higher valuation. The biggest winners consistently combine four management actions.…

Making global data easier to explore
Labs

Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.…

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Briefing

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue…

Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Practice

Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent

Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessmen…

Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Briefing

Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting and other changes in photos of their own rooms — pot…

Withdrawals Sent to the Senate
Policy

Withdrawals Sent to the Senate

WITHDRAWALS SENT TO THE SENATE: Jeffrey Anderson, of Georgia, to be Representative of the United States of America on the Council of the International Civil Avi…

How MRH Trowe enabled secure self-service AI agents in financial services
Practice

How MRH Trowe enabled secure self-service AI agents in financial services

Learn how MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, gave about 400 employees secure, self-service access to AI agents in …

A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Wood Mackenzie built APEX, a shared agentic AI platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so every team can ship production agents without rebuilding runtime, identit…

A serverless, data-driven Git metrics dashboard using Amazon Quick Sight
Practice

A serverless, data-driven Git metrics dashboard using Amazon Quick Sight

Learn how to build a fully serverless pipeline that automatically collects Git metrics from GitHub and GitLab and visualizes them in interactive Amazon Quick Si…

Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Practice

Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Servi…

Why transformations stall—and where only CEOs make the difference
Practice

Why transformations stall—and where only CEOs make the difference

Five common behavioral patterns can cause change efforts to falter. Know the warning signs—and what to do about them.…

Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI
Practice

Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI

Learn how to build a synthetic data augmentation pipeline on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Rekognition that generates photo-realistic, auto-labeled training im…

Implementing defense-in-depth authorization for MCP tools on Amazon Quick
Practice

Implementing defense-in-depth authorization for MCP tools on Amazon Quick

Learn how to enforce defense-in-depth authorization for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on Amazon Quick. This walkthrough wires Microsoft Entra ID group and …

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Briefing

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about A…

AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
Briefing

AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs

Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The…

Presidential Message on National Hispanic Heritage Month
Policy

Presidential Message on National Hispanic Heritage Month

During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we honor the innumerable achievements and vast contributions of Hispanic Americans, whose strength, character, and devo…