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Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS
Practice

Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS

Traditional RAG hits a ceiling on analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents. This post shows how to use task-aware knowledge compression (TAKC) on AWS to…

First Lady Melania Trump Announces Opening of Christmas Volunteer & Performer Applications
Policy

First Lady Melania Trump Announces Opening of Christmas Volunteer & Performer Applications

Christmas planning is underway at the White House, and President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are excited to continue the cherished tradition of…

Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
Research

Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across peopl…

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery
Research

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, t…

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
Research

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker

The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up…

Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Labs

Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.…

How AI is expanding what people do at work
Labs

How AI is expanding what people do at work

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.…

ChinAI #368: The Affordable Luxury of Kimi K3
Labs

ChinAI #368: The Affordable Luxury of Kimi K3

Greetings from a world where……

The global balance sheet 2026: Imbalance and divergence
Practice

The global balance sheet 2026: Imbalance and divergence

Several asset classes grew further out of balance with the economy, raising the possibility of corrections through inflation, asset valuation losses, or, optima…

Rewired takes: How AI is unlocking creativity and heralding the rise of the agent manager
Practice

Rewired takes: How AI is unlocking creativity and heralding the rise of the agent manager

Companies are reassessing how they work, their team structures, and what it means to be a manager in this bracing new era.…

Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
Labs

Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security

Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.19.0
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.19.0

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction
Research

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

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NVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs
Labs

NVIDIA Harnesses Vera CPU to Speed Up Design of Next-Generation CPUs and GPUs

The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet t…

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
Briefing

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.…

Version 8.2
Create

Version 8.2

Hi everyone! We are launching our V8.2 image model today. This update focuses on aesthetics and image quality and personalization.Images should be more creative…

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
Briefing

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and c…

Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
Policy

Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution

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. Policy. On March 2…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Trust in the Smithsonian Institution

RESTORING TRUST IN THE SMITHSONIAN: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to reestablish confidence in the Smithsonian Institution. As illu…

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
Practice

Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model

This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on …

Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to select a model, run inference through the Responses API on the b…

Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS
Practice

Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS

Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and PyTorc…

Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Create

Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex, long-running coding tasks that require caref…

Claude Code v2.1.219
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.219

How AI agents can help FP&A better steer the business
Practice

How AI agents can help FP&A better steer the business

AI makes continuous financial planning practical at scale. Organizations can identify risks sooner, evaluate trade-offs faster, and intervene before performance…

Midjourney’s First Acquisition
Create

Midjourney’s First Acquisition

As a kid, all I wanted was a cool-place to work on cool-projects with cool-people. Projects to help people and push the world towards beauty, awe, and splendor.…

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate
Policy

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/24/2026 - 14:32   02 September 2026 The European P…

Author Talks: Why founders misunderstand customer demand
Practice

Author Talks: Why founders misunderstand customer demand

Why do so many promising products fail to gain traction? A McKinsey alumnus explains why conventional thinking leads founders astray—and shares a practical fram…

UnMaskFork: Test-Time Scaling for Masked Diffusion via Deterministic Action Branching
Labs

UnMaskFork: Test-Time Scaling for Masked Diffusion via Deterministic Action Branching

Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 and Claude Code interface for Fugu
Labs

Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 and Claude Code interface for Fugu