Briefing

The Evolution of Cassandra Data Movement at Netflix

Predicting Risk in Content Launches: How Data-Driven Insights can Transform Launch Planning

Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale

The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata

Amazon drops its OpenAI drama film after signing a $50 billion deal with Sam Altman's company

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped "Artificial," the nearly finished OpenAI film directed by Luca Guadagnino with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Amazon struck a $50…

Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Week…

Norway bans generative AI tools in elementary schools to protect kids' basic learning skills

Norway is banning generative AI tools in elementary schools starting in late August. Students in grades 1 through 7 won't be allowed to use AI at all; secondary…

President Trump’s Iran Agreement Is America First in Action

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance have secured a historic breakthrough by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Forged through de…

AI credits consumed per user now in the Copilot usage metrics API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports how many AI credits each user consumed per day, derived from the same AI credits consumption data used in the usage-ba…

More people get news from AI chatbots, but trust remains low

According to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026, 10 percent of people worldwide now use AI chatbots for news every week, up from 7 percent a year …

Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available. In this post, we walk through what makes Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore different, wh…

New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work

Even the best AI model fails at realistic knowledge work, fully solving just 3 percent of tasks. The article New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with r…

Accelerate campaign workflow with insights from Adobe Marketing Agent for Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick and Adobe Marketing Agent help marketing teams access campaign insights within governed conversations in seconds. Marketers can ask questions about…

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.…

A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had be…

Google appeals ruling that made it directly liable for AI-generated search overview content

Google is appealing the ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court, which held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI search results. The AI had falsely l…

OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate

OpenAI researchers show that reinforcement learning on desired behavioral traits like truthfulness and corrigibility works across domains. Training on health da…

Putting AI to work: The operational excellence imperative

Our survey uncovers how operational excellence becomes the hidden accelerator of AI at scale.…

Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are

Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A stren…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.6

Monitor and debug generative AI inference with SageMaker detailed metrics and Insights dashboard on CloudWatch

Amazon SageMaker AI provides fully managed real-time inference hosting for machine learning models. You deploy a model to a SageMaker endpoint backed by one or …

Upcoming deprecation of Opus 4.6 (fast)

We will deprecate Opus 4.6 (fast) across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on Ju…

Claude Code v2.1.183

Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis

SK Telecom had access to Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos through the company's partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in. US officia…

Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions

Claude Code can now turn work results into interactive web pages called "artifacts" and share them with your team. The pages pull from the full session context,…

ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with GPT-5.5 Instant. In the company's own comparative tests, the model now outscores answers written by d…

Effects of Banning Anti-Competitive Hospital Contracts

Executive Summary Anti-steering, anti-tiering, and all-or-nothing bundled contracting are mechanisms by which dominant hospital systems insulate themselves from…

AI is turning every company into a software company

As AI makes software faster and cheaper to build, the real competitive edge shifts to how it’s used—pushing leaders to rethink what work looks like and how team…

Copilot code review: AGENTS.md support and UI improvements

Copilot code review now supports repository-level AGENTS.md files, and it’s easier to request a review from Copilot on draft pull requests with the Reques…

MAI-Code-1-Flash available on more Copilot surfaces

MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash, Microsoft’s purpose‑built small coding model, is now available across additional GitHub Copilot surfaces. MAI&#8…