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Enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for VS Code and CLI
Organizations can now mandate where GitHub Copilot sends OpenTelemetry (OTel) data, so telemetry flows to an approved collector without each developer setting O…
Claude Code v2.1.205
Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.…
Our approach to government and national security partnerships
Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.…

ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human
OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which d…

Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer t…
Codex as agent provider and agentic enhancements in JetBrains IDEs
This update brings Codex as a new agent provider in public preview, expands the Customizations editor with Hooks support and richer MCP server management, and i…

Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera
Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera. Tra…

Building and connecting a production-ready ecommerce MCP server using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio
In this post, you build and connect that server end to end. You will implement MCP tools, set up two-layer JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, deploy with AWS …

Automatically sort and prioritize your mailboxes by using Amazon Bedrock
In this post, we show how organizations in the public sector can automate their email management using a generative AI solution powered by Amazon Bedrock.…

Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research
In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generat…
Introducing GPT-Live
A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.…
Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills
OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.…

Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5
Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in th…

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead c…

Manage AI applications on Mac with Jamf’s AI Governance and Amazon Bedrock
In this post, we show how you can use Jamf’s AI Governance with Amazon Bedrock to configure, deploy, and validate managed settings for AI applications across a …

Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF
This post shows you two architecture patterns that address this problem. Both use an internet-facing ALB with AWS WAF and route traffic through a VPC Interface …

How We Achieved ~1000 tok/s and 16x Throughput with DSpark for Ideogram V4 Prompt Expander
At @fal , we've achieved 16 times higher throughput on Qwen3.6 for a use-case that required high interactivity per user using DSpark on SGLang. But why did…

Flint: A visualization language for the AI era
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, l…

NVIDIA Nemotron Achieves Benchmark-Leading Performance With LangChain Deep Agents Harness
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration pla…

Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents
Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote…
From adoption to impact: Three horizons of AI transformation
Most organizations are still early in their AI journeys. A new global survey reveals how companies can progress from individual adoption to enterprise-wide valu…
Cost versus value: Managing agentic AI system performance
Per-token pricing has stopped being a useful measure for what enterprises actually pay for gen AI. A conversation with David Tepper, CEO of Pay-i, delves into t…
From healthcare to health: Asia’s longevity opportunity
On average, people are living longer than before, raising a broader conversation about how to create an ecosystem that effectively combines the delivery of care…

Introducing Robostral Navigate
Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.…

Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source. The artic…

Meta tests always-on AI glasses that capture your entire day
Meta is testing a prototype of AI-powered headsets with "Super Sensing" that use a camera and microphone to record every moment of the wearer's life. The articl…
Reimagining logistics pricing
Logistics players can focus on four pricing strategies in the AI era.…

Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises questions
Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code executi…

Agent Framework’s Orchestration Patterns Reach 1.0
Python’s agent-framework-orchestrations package is now 1.0.0. That puts Microsoft Agent Framework’s orchestration layer at 1.0 across Python and .NE…