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America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Signing of Magna Carta
Policy

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Signing of Magna Carta

Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of Magna Carta—one of history’s earliest and most consequential declarations o…

Nominations Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nominations Sent to the Senate

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: James Andrew Crowell IV, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for …

Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 i…

Copilot usage metrics now include more of your active users
Create

Copilot usage metrics now include more of your active users

Copilot usage metrics reports now draw on server-side telemetry in addition to client signals, so more of your active Copilot users show up in reports. Enterpri…

Claude Code v2.1.178
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.178

The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs
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The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

Government officials accuse Anthropic of disregarding Trump's cyber directive and releasing Fable 5 without approval. "They screwed us," one administration offi…

AI Agent Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis with Strands Evals
Practice

AI Agent Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis with Strands Evals

In this post, we walk you through calling the detector functions to diagnose real agent failures. You learn how to interpret their structured output: categorize…

Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale
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Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale

Nvidia wants to raise at least $20 billion through its first bond sale since 2021, Bloomberg reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the deal. The artic…

Build context-rich research agents with Deep Agents and Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Build context-rich research agents with Deep Agents and Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you'll build a competitive research agent that demonstrates this pattern end to end. This walkthrough targets developers building multi-step AI wo…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense
Practice

Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspective…

We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.
Labs

We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurpos…

Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones
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Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones

Volunteer AR scans from Pokémon Go players fed into Niantic's spatial AI models. That technology is now being combined with a US defense contractor's software f…

Phil Ozuah on enhancing ambulatory care and accessibility
Practice

Phil Ozuah on enhancing ambulatory care and accessibility

The president and CEO of Montefiore Einstein talks about technology in healthcare, opportunities to close gaps in patient access, and his own path to leadership…

Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations
Practice

Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations

Successful transformations require everyone in the organization to move in the same direction. That can only happen when CEOs directly address collective-action…

ChinAI #363: A College Admissions Advisor for 13 Million
Labs

ChinAI #363: A College Admissions Advisor for 13 Million

Plus, details on the college preference list, or what happens after the Gaokao?…

Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Research

Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Where are your agents right now?…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants companies to build "token capital" alongside human capital, meaning their own AI capabilities built on internal data and propr…

Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe
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Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe

The European Commission is assessing the implications of the US order that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide. European researchers ar…

The health system CEO imperative: Turning AI’s promise into performance
Practice

The health system CEO imperative: Turning AI’s promise into performance

Health systems aren’t short on AI, they’re short on impact from AI. Capturing real value requires CEO-led transformation and a fundamental rethink of how care a…

Sakana AI、初の商用プロダクト「Sakana Marlin」を提供開始
Labs

Sakana AI、初の商用プロダクト「Sakana Marlin」を提供開始

戦略調査を数時間で完遂する、自律型リサーチアシスタント「Sakana Marlin」…

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network
Labs

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.…

Presidential Message on the 251st Birthday of the United States Army
Policy

Presidential Message on the 251st Birthday of the United States Army

Today, our Nation celebrates the 251st birthday of the United States Army, the oldest branch of the most storied and feared fighting force the world has ever kn…

Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance
Research

Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance

It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.…

Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format turns scattered docs into Markdown files for AI agents
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Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format turns scattered docs into Markdown files for AI agents

Google Cloud's new Open Knowledge Format (OKF) standardizes scattered organizational knowledge as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, making it portable and u…

Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner
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Microsoft Research's Mirage gives video generation a persistent spatial memory that doesn't forget what's around the corner

Mirage, a video world model from Microsoft Research and several universities, stores scene information directly in latent space instead of pixel-based point clo…

Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic's Fable model
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Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic's Fable model

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and executives from other tech companies reportedly warned the Trump administration about security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Fable mo…

AI coding agents find the right file but miss the exact lines that matter, study shows
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AI coding agents find the right file but miss the exact lines that matter, study shows

AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex reliably find the right file but miss most of the critical lines within it. The new SWE-Explore benchmark is the firs…

KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption
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KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption

KPMG published a report on AI in business that contained fabricated case studies involving UBS, the NHS, and other organizations. GPTZero CEO Edward Tian, who h…

From silicon to softmax: Inside the Ironwood AI stack
Practice

From silicon to softmax: Inside the Ironwood AI stack

As machine learning models continue to scale, a specialized, co-designed hardware and software stack is no longer optional, it’s critical. Ironwood, our latest …

Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference
Practice

Announcing Ironwood TPUs General Availability and new Axion VMs to power the age of inference

Today’s frontier models, including Google’s Gemini, Veo, Imagen, and Anthropic’s Claude train and serve on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). For many organization…