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New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises
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New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises

OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.…

How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability
Labs

How FERC’s Large-Load Interconnection Actions Help Address Grid Stress, Improve Affordability

In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today issued a major milestone on large-load interconnection im…

Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys
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Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys

Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats. The company's new "AI Control Roadmap" ties security measures to measurable AI capabiliti…

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT
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Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informe…

The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it
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The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available: Go from idea to production-grade agent in minutes
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available: Go from idea to production-grade agent in minutes

Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is generally available. Two API calls (CreateHarness to define an agent, and InvokeHarness to run it), and you have an a…

Brilliant Moves: Coffee with FairPrice Group’s Vipul Chawla
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Brilliant Moves: Coffee with FairPrice Group’s Vipul Chawla

FairPrice Group’s Vipul Chawla chats with McKinsey’s Gautam Kumra about using AI to remove friction from shopping, navigating supply chain shocks, and balancing…

Copilot-authored pull requests now included in author searches
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Copilot-authored pull requests now included in author searches

Searching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@…

Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP
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Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP

The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension to the Model Context Protocol is now stable, enabling organizations to centrally provision MCP server access thro…

AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well
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AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well

Two new studies published in Nature show that specialized AI systems diagnose diseases and make treatment decisions as well as physicians in simulated patient c…

Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
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Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.…

Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps
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Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps

Adobe is rolling out its "creative agent" across its main Creative Cloud apps and third-party AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Users describe what they wan…

The first big exit in AI
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The first big exit in AI

little tools for making life easier…

Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa
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Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa

Rumors about Midjourney hardware have circulated for years, but nobody saw this coming. The AI image startup is building a full-body ultrasound scanner and open…

Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"
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Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"

According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors, a…

President Trump to Award Medal of Honor
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President Trump to Award Medal of Honor

On Thursday, June 18, 2026, President Donald J. Trump will award the Medal of Honor to Major James Capers, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), Colonel John W. Rip…

The rise of the agentic shopper: ASOS’s AI investment
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The rise of the agentic shopper: ASOS’s AI investment

The British fashion retailer’s chief technology officer discusses why agentic AI represents ‘a structural shift’ in how consumers engage with brands.…

From aisle to algorithm: The beauty categories, channels, and concepts shaping 2030 growth
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From aisle to algorithm: The beauty categories, channels, and concepts shaping 2030 growth

The global beauty market is expected to grow by 5 percent annually through 2030. But major disruptions are underway, driven by expanding definitions of beauty, …

An update on Asia–Pacific consumer sentiment: Outlooks diverge and spending is more selective
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An update on Asia–Pacific consumer sentiment: Outlooks diverge and spending is more selective

Concerns about inflation, job security, and geopolitics weighed on consumers across the region. Here’s the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.…

Rewiring Talent to Value in the age of AI
Practice

Rewiring Talent to Value in the age of AI

As humans enter a new era with AI agents as coworkers, companies need to update their framework for defining their most valuable roles. Here’s how to get starte…

Securing the future of AI agents
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Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.…

At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA Partners Reshape Advertising and Marketing With AI
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At Cannes Lions, NVIDIA Partners Reshape Advertising and Marketing With AI

The digital era gave the advertising and marketing industry speed; the AI era is giving it autonomous operations. For companies building next-generation technol…

What corporate leaders can learn from start-up founders
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What corporate leaders can learn from start-up founders

Alurx Founder and CEO Julia Stewart discusses her journey from public company CEO to health tech entrepreneur—and how corporate leaders can build confidence to …

Generated release notes credit you for Copilot pull requests
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Generated release notes credit you for Copilot pull requests

When you generate release notes for a new release, the generated notes include a list of pull requests merged since the last release. For more information about…

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Hierarchical Multi-Modal Retrieval for Knowledge-Grounded News Image Captioning
Research

Hierarchical Multi-Modal Retrieval for Knowledge-Grounded News Image Captioning

Traditional image captioning methods often struggle to generate comprehensive, context-rich descriptions, especially for details not directly observable from vi…

Multi-Modal Hyper-Graph Fusion for Low-Light Crowd Counting
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Multi-Modal Hyper-Graph Fusion for Low-Light Crowd Counting

Crowd counting is a fundamental task in computer vision. However, crowd counting in low-light environments remains largely underexplored, despite its practical …

Towards Anomaly Detection on Relational Data
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Towards Anomaly Detection on Relational Data

Relational databases are widely used for managing structured data in real-world systems. Detecting anomalies from such relational data is crucial for identifyin…

RegMix-D: Dynamic Data Mixing via Proxy Training Trajectories
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RegMix-D: Dynamic Data Mixing via Proxy Training Trajectories

Data mixture selection is critical for Large Language Model pretraining. Existing methods such as RegMix select a single static mixture by fitting a regression …