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Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we describe how Bluesight used two AWS engagements and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to evolve from a single-product AI prototype to Prism, a unified a…

When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
Practice

When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powere…

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
Research

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently th…

Death of Senator Lindsey Graham
Policy

Death of Senator Lindsey Graham

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of Senator Lindsey Graham, I h…

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs
Practice

Securing the AI supply chain on GKE: Introducing k8s-aibom for automated AI BOMs

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, beca…

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
Research

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving spee…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.…

How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate
Practice

How AI is reshaping value creation in residential real estate

McKinsey’s Alex Wolkomir discusses how housing leaders can win with AI by improving customer experiences, redesigning workflows, and building trust between part…

Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption
Practice

Rewired takes: Practical people lessons for scaling AI adoption

McKinsey Senior Partner Brooke Weddle explores how companies are successfully scaling their AI programs.…

From clay 3d render to a real action short: a 3D-to-AI pipeline with total control
Create

From clay 3d render to a real action short: a 3D-to-AI pipeline with total control

We built a short action film — a 1930s pickup racing a steam freight train through a desert town, and jumping over it — where everything is exactl…

ChinAI #366: Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30
Labs

ChinAI #366: Most Companion Robots Die by Day 30

Greetings from a world where……

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world
Policy

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world

Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/13/2026 - 11:15 As announced in t…

Smart Cellular Bricks: Towards Collective Intelligence for the Physical World
Labs

Smart Cellular Bricks: Towards Collective Intelligence for the Physical World

Collections of hundreds of physical 3D cellular bricks, simple modular hardware units that run identical local Neural Cellular Automata without any global knowl…

How to keep design teams steady through constant change
Create

How to keep design teams steady through constant change

6 months to live for open models
Research

6 months to live for open models

The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.…

The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create?
Labs

The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create?

Claude Code v2.1.207
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.207

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.2
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.2

FASHN AI: reimagining fashion and photography
Create

FASHN AI: reimagining fashion and photography

fal EditorialDeep dives with the companies taking AI seriously in the industries that matter. One company, one hard problem, and what it actually takes to solve…

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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Briefing

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple's trade secrets "for the benefit of OpenAI." In its com…

Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention
Practice

Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has gotten off to a very hot start. Europe has baked under record-breaking temperatures, while a “heat dome” blankets much of …

How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation
Create

How Decagon uses AI for design system saturation

Building a more resilient industrial base may require $2 trillion in investment
Practice

Building a more resilient industrial base may require $2 trillion in investment

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, intensifying technological competition and geopolitical risks have resurfaced a decades-old question with…

Nominations Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nominations Sent to the Senate

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Carl Bednarski, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration, for a term expi…

Nomination Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nomination Sent to the Senate

NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Konstantinos Ligris, of Florida, to be an Assistant Attorney General. The post Nomination Sent to the Senate appeared first on Th…

Minnesota Democrats Pardoned a Convicted Child Rapist. President Trump Deported Him.
Policy

Minnesota Democrats Pardoned a Convicted Child Rapist. President Trump Deported Him.

A convicted child sex offender is no longer in our country thanks to President Donald J. Trump and his Administration — defeating a sick attempt by Minnesota Go…

Frontier and Center: Who evaluates the evaluations?
Practice

Frontier and Center: Who evaluates the evaluations?

Editor’s note: Some of the most interesting questions in AI are being asked by information theoreticians, around how to provide context to an emerging class of …

Where the goblins came from
Labs

Where the goblins came from

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.…

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
Labs

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.…