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The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.

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ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
Labs

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.…

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
Labs

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.…

Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud
Practice

Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever trie…

White House CEQ Announces Technology Solutions Selected to Showcase at Permitting Innovators Expo
Policy

White House CEQ Announces Technology Solutions Selected to Showcase at Permitting Innovators Expo

Industry partners to showcase permitting technologies at the Permitting Innovators Expo. Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced the innovat…

How to keep design teams steady through constant change
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How to keep design teams steady through constant change

Ask Copilot for a repository overview
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Ask Copilot for a repository overview

You can now ask GitHub Copilot for a high-level overview of any repository you’re exploring for the first time. When you visit the home page of a reposito…

Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record.
Labs

Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record.

Studio provides a system of record for AI prompts and skills—versioned, owned, and traceable. Iterate fast, ship with control, and ensure consistent AI behavior…

OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken
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OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company…

Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities
Agents

Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it rea…

Grok x Cursor
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Grok x Cursor

More Fable, GPT-5.6 and new ChatGPT voice…

Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost
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Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost

Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at…

OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest
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OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Divisio…

Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America
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Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America

Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Defense Investment from NATO Allies, Powering American Industry
Policy

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic Defense Investment from NATO Allies, Powering American Industry

STRENGTHENING THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE: This week, at NATO’s 2026 Ankara Summit, President Donald J. Trump announced a surge in defense investment from …

Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS
Practice

Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS

Today, we're announcing the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, cost, and p…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, June 2026 releases
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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, June 2026 releases

This changelog covers VS Code v1.123 through v1.127, shipped throughout June and early July 2026. The latest VS Code releases build on the Copilot experience de…

Deploy managed Copilot settings via MDM in VS Code and CLI
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Deploy managed Copilot settings via MDM in VS Code and CLI

Enterprise administrators can now deliver managed GitHub Copilot settings directly to devices through native mobile device management (MDM) and file-based confi…

Enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for VS Code and CLI
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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
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.205

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
Labs

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
Labs

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Practice

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
Practice

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
Practice

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
Labs

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
Labs

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.…