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Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy…

GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available

GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available. Since launching the public preview in March 2026, we have shipped a series of enhancements based on your fee…

Enterprise-managed settings now support strictKnownMarketplaces in VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI

Enterprises can now control which plugins their users can install in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code. This setting is now available in public preview. Add strict…

Copilot code review: Analysis depth and efficiency updates

Copilot code review now uses the built-in file exploration tools available in the Copilot CLI and SDK, significantly improving review cost efficiency with no ch…

Claude Code v2.1.193

dotnet-1.11.1

The age of thinking machines: Perspectives on the future of robotics

The next frontier of AI is physical. Embodied intelligence, in the form of robots, could change how we live and work by 2040.…

Radical Lunatics Deface America’s Reflecting Pool — and President Trump Was Right (Again)

Crazed and deranged lunatics have once again exposed their hatred for America with a cowardly, deliberate attack on one of our nation’s most iconic landmarks — …

Random styles in draft mode

Heya everyone!We're making it easier to explore different styles in draft mode for V8.1. Include --sref random in your draft-mode prompt to create 24 image…

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to huma…

What it takes to become—and remain—an effective CEO

Between the first 90 days and the last, here’s how leaders can successfully manage people, products, processes, and themselves.…

Building agentic AI applications with a modern data mesh strategy on AWS

This post shows how to build a governed, serverless data mesh on AWS that provides the secure, scalable data foundation production agentic AI requires.…

Build self-service AWS Health analytics to find actionable health insights with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show you how to build Chaplin (Customer Health and Planned Lifecycle Intelligence Nexus), an open source solution that uses AI agents exposed t…

Implementing super resolution by deploying SeedVR2 on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement video upscaling using SeedVR2 on SageMaker AI. We cover the solution architecture, walk through the deployment ste…

Optimize model training on Amazon SageMaker AI with NVIDIA Blackwell

This post shows you how to configure training jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI to get the most out of Blackwell’s architecture on AWS. You learn how to select batch …

Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services

In this technical collaboration between AWS and the authors, we present a pragmatic solution: agentic overlays. Agentic overlays are thin wrapper layers that tr…

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.…

Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even "anti-woke" models are no exception

A Washington Post investigation shows that most major AI chatbots still skew left on political questions. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 gave exclusively left-leaning argumen…

Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specif…

Frontiers of compute: The technologies to reduce AI inference costs

AI’s next breakthrough may not be a smarter model but a cheaper token.…

Insurers turn to generative AI for catastrophe modeling, but hallucinations and sales logic could get in the way

Diffusion models generate tens of thousands of plausible weather events where historical data doesn't exist. Insurers are hoping for more precise risk assessmen…

Unlocking full potential: Five practices reshaping PE value creation

The half-life of the initial deal thesis is shrinking. Private equity firms are shifting toward a more adaptive, execution-led model that reshapes value creatio…

Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Two former xAI employees estimate that porn accounts for well over half of all Grok traffic. xAI is leaning into it, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google won't t…

Claude Code in Slack

a tip to get better UI from Codex…

How TITAN Group’s CEO is transforming a century-old company

As the first outside leader of the family-founded business, Marcel Cobuz has made some tough decisions about what to keep and what to change. His formula seems …

How companies can strengthen their geopolitical risk readiness

Survey results reveal a widening gap between leaders’ assessment of their risk exposure and responsiveness. Five actions can help leaders prepare for a range of…

What matters most to investors in 2026 and what it means for companies

Even before the Middle East conflict began, geopolitics surged as the foremost investor concern. AI disruption and capital allocation discipline are also top of…

Authors Guild test finds some AI detectors perfectly identify human writing while others fail on every single text

The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts. Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT flagged …

Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast

By 2025, Meta will have already replaced about half of all human moderation requests with large language models and aims to increase that percentage to over 90 …

Qualcomm enters the data center market with its own processor

Qualcomm is pushing further into the data center market with a new processor called the Dragonfly C1000. The article Qualcomm enters the data center market with…