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20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)
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20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)

If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering …

Drive proactive security, prioritize risks with Google Threat Intelligence and Wiz ASM
Practice

Drive proactive security, prioritize risks with Google Threat Intelligence and Wiz ASM

Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organiza…

The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations
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The operating model advantage: Why AI winners are rewiring their organizations

The real AI advantage comes from redesigning how work is done and how decisions are made. Ultimately, success will depend on people and operating models support…

GitHub Copilot app available to all
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GitHub Copilot app available to all

The GitHub Copilot app is now available on every Copilot plan. Sign in with your GitHub account to start agent-driven development from your desktop. Available o…

Agent Skills for .NET Is Now Released
Agents

Agent Skills for .NET Is Now Released

You can now give your .NET agents reusable packages of domain expertise – instructions, reference documents, and scripts they load only when a task needs …

AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters
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AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era. Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is o…

Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens
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Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens

Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using a new …

Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3
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Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3

The Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3, 2026. If you use it to review your GitHub Copilot spend, you can get even greater visibility direct…

Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise
Research

Building the foundation for an autonomous enterprise

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its most consequential use cases are unfoldi…

My thoughts on Fable
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My thoughts on Fable

what I want from a harness…

Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
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Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens

Chinese AI models are gaining ground with US companies because they cost far less than systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, CNBC reports. The article Chinese AI m…

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
Research

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. Tha…

Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects
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Apollo economist warns AI profit gains outside tech could take "well beyond" what Wall Street expects

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok sees no AI-driven margin gains outside tech. In regulated industries like healthcare, banking, or pharma, process overhauls …

OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups
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OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups

OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems. Some individual o…

Deepseek is designing its own AI chip
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Deepseek is designing its own AI chip

Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports. The article Deepseek is designing its own AI chip appeared first on The Decoder.…

From the C-suite to the boardroom: Christiana Smith Shi on what it takes
Practice

From the C-suite to the boardroom: Christiana Smith Shi on what it takes

For executives, the developmental opportunity may be clear, but what does board service really entail?…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community
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NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in phys…

Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova
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Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova

In this post, we introduce Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO), the novel unlearning technique behind Amazon Nova Customizable Content Moderation Sett…

From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Practice

From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click

Today, we’re excited to announce a deep-link integration between Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI. Developers can now go from model discovery to hands-on ex…

Claude Code v2.1.202
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.202

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.8
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.8

Building America’s innovation engine: An interview with David Lebryk
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Building America’s innovation engine: An interview with David Lebryk

The former US Treasury official shares how government can deliver in moments of crisis and how America’s public–private sector dynamic can help fuel its next er…

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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.…

Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
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Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers

Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all…

President Trump Rings in Trump Accounts with Historic Opening Bell Ceremony from the Oval Office
Policy

President Trump Rings in Trump Accounts with Historic Opening Bell Ceremony from the Oval Office

In a historic first, President Donald J. Trump today rang the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ from the Oval Office, marking the off…

GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
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GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top

OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, far longer than any model since. Since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the l…

Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are a…

Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a …