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Commission Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content
Policy

Commission Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content

Commission Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 09:03 Commission…

AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar
Policy

AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar

AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 12:39   22 July 2026 Join the AI-BOOST Info Webinar on 22 July at 11:00 CE…

Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund
Policy

Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund

Investing in Europe’s digital future: Study projects long-term economic impact of the European Competitiveness Fund Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 1…

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act
Policy

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/10/2026 - 1…

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
Labs

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.…

Call for Tenders: EU Code Week 2027-2030
Policy

Call for Tenders: EU Code Week 2027-2030

Call for Tenders: EU Code Week 2027-2030 dumimar Thu, 07/09/2026 - 14:10   Opening: 09 July 2026   Closing: 15 September 2026 This call for tenders ai…

langgraph==1.2.9
Agents

langgraph==1.2.9

Claude Code v2.1.206
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.206

python-1.11.0
Agents

python-1.11.0

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.1
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.1

GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost
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GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scores 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just one point behind Claude Fable 5. At $1.04 per task, it costs a third o…

Adjusting Imports of Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines, and Aircraft and Engine Parts into the United States
Policy

Adjusting Imports of Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines, and Aircraft and Engine Parts into the United States

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION 1.  Within the past 90 days, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a repo…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines, and Aircraft and Engine Parts into the United States
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Commercial Aircraft, Jet Engines, and Aircraft and Engine Parts into the United States

SUPPORTING AMERICAN INDUSTRY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Act) order…

AI in five industries: What’s now, and what’s next
Practice

AI in five industries: What’s now, and what’s next

The headlines are everywhere. The nuance is more elusive. In these video Explainers, McKinsey partners go sector by sector to parse what’s happening with AI now…

Author Talks: In Hollywood and in business, it’s cool to be kind
Practice

Author Talks: In Hollywood and in business, it’s cool to be kind

In Lead with Kindness, television writer and producer Melinda Hsu explores how so-called soft skills like empathy, mindfulness, and collaboration can result in …

The real AI advantage
Practice

The real AI advantage

The next wave of value from AI will flow to those leaders who redesign business models, eliminate friction, and build organizations that learn faster than the c…

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
Research

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer…

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Labs

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.…

OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows
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OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by Codex and the now publicly available GPT-5.6. The agent can independently handle complex pro…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot
Create

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, Sol, Terra, and Luna, so you can match the model to the job…

Serving sub-second Ideogram v4 without quality loss
Create

Serving sub-second Ideogram v4 without quality loss

At @fal we serve Ideogram V4 at high speed. At 1K resolution, a generation that used to take 2.75 s now renders in 0.44 s, a 6x speedup with no visible quality …

How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks
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How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks

Explore practical ChatGPT Work use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.…

Modeling an AI jobs transition
Labs

Modeling an AI jobs transition

A new framework analyzes 921 occupations and 148 million U.S. jobs to identify which roles face automation risk, reorganization, growth, or minimal AI disruptio…

AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses
Labs

AI is becoming a first hire for small businesses

New research shows how 4 million Americans use ChatGPT to start, run, and grow small businesses, lowering the cost of entrepreneurship with AI.…

ChatGPT Sites
Labs

ChatGPT Sites

Create that kind of lightweight website or app with Codex.…

GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
Create

GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up
Briefing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up

Meta is entering the AI API business with Muse Spark 1.1 at prices that undercut even the dirt-cheap Grok 4.5, released just yesterday. At $4.25 per million out…

Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration
Practice

Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration

In this post, we walk through five capabilities now available in SageMaker HyperPod inference: multi-tier data capture for auditing and model improvement, direc…

MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs
Practice

MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs

In this post, we show where MCP tool design goes wrong and how to fix it with practical context engineering approaches.…

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications
Research

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for …