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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government

OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 on Thursday after the U.S. government lifted its release ban following additional testing. Binding standards for future model approv…

Targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty

Targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty lobacni Wed, 07/08/2026 - 09:10   Opening: 08 July 2026   Closing: 08 September 2026 T…

Add review cycles and time to adoption phases in the usage API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports two additional code-review velocity metrics for each AI adoption phase, extending the adoption phase cohorts fields av…

Kimi K2.7 now available for Copilot Business and Enterprise

On July 1, 2026, we announced Kimi K2.7 would be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max plans. The model is now additionally available on Copilot Business and …

Claude Code v2.1.204

Democrats Fought Against Historic Tax Cuts. Now They’re Fighting Against Opportunity for America’s Kids.

President Donald J. Trump and Republicans delivered the largest middle- and working-class tax cuts in history through the Working Families Tax Cuts, which Democ…

Claude Code v2.1.203

Conversational Design: Five Patterns to Shape Customer-facing AI Experiences

What held up in production when the goal wasn’t just functional accuracy but better dialogue…

Responses are the Easy Part: What We’ve Learned Building Real-time Voice Experiences at Scale

Timing, interruption, silence and recovery shape the experience as much as words…

Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows

How autonomous code improvement can be made disciplined enough for enterprise use…

Designing Organisations That Can Keep Up With AI

Why organisational latency is becoming the biggest barrier to fully realising AI’s benefits…

Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs

Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per week alr…

Per-user budgets for cost centers in the billing UI

Enterprise admins can now create cost center user-level budgets directly in the billing UI where you manage cost centers and budgets. This feature is available …

Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human…

Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web

Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was limited to the desktop app. The agent keeps working in the bac…

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, cod…

How AWS Finance teams reclaimed hundreds of hours with Amazon Quick

In this post, we show how AWS Finance used chat agents and Flows in Amazin Quick to transform two of their most time-consuming workflows.…

Build an AI-powered AWS support companion with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you build an AWS Support Companion using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The agent uses Strands Agents as the orchestration framework and connects to AW…

Monitoring discriminative ML models using Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow

Implementing a data and model monitoring solution is necessary to maintain prediction accuracy and help achieve the best outcome for your machine learning use c…

Build a serverless image editing agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness

This post walks through building a serverless image editor where users upload a photo, describe an edit in plain English, and receive the result in seconds. The…

Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through how multi-dataset Topics work, explain how the chat agent uses defined relationships to generate cross-dataset queries, and demons…

Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat

This post is for data architects, business intelligence (BI) engineers, and analytics engineers building or optimizing Quick Sight Topics for natural-language C…

Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

In this post, we shift from concepts to patterns. For each schema, you’ll find a table structure, use cases, implementation steps, and sample SQL queries. We al…

Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships

Today, we are excited to announce Multi-Dataset Relationships in Amazon Quick Sight. This new capability lets you define logical relationships between Quick Sig…

Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick

In this post, we walk through what Dataset Enrichment is, how it differs from legacy Topics, and provide three migration scenarios with step-by-step guidance so…

Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dro…

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.…

China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

According to Reuters, Chinese authorities are looking into restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models. Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai wou…

A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate …

Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI

For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, th…