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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.…

Telling AI to design is hard

Ben’s session #6…

Presidential Message on Rosh Hashanah

Melania and I send our warmest greetings to the entire Jewish community on Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holy Days. The Jewish com…

The future of US manufacturing

A quarter of America’s manufactured imports face critical trade dependencies. Strengthening US manufacturing will depend not only on capital but also on talent,…

GitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 7

This week, GitHub Copilot introduces Jira integration in Copilot app and adaptive model orchestration with Project HydraFusion in Copilot CLI. We also introduce…

Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.…

Strategy in the age of arenas

A group of fast-growing industries is reshaping the competitive landscape. Their rise requires business leaders to rethink strategy in two important ways.…

The speed problem: How frontier AI exposes weakness in enterprise cybersecurity

Attackers now move at machine speed, but organizations make decisions at committee speed. To close the gap, businesses need a different operating model and comm…

Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat.…

S. 858 Signed into Law

On Thursday, September 10, 2026, the President signed into law: S. 858, the ” Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Locati…

Video and image search in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base using Marengo 3.0

TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 is now generally available as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, bringing fully managed natural language search …

Reduce inference cold starts on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with model caching

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for inference, which pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods read from loca…

Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference

Amazon SageMaker Inference now offers prefix-aware routing, a routing strategy that sends requests sharing the same prompt prefix to the same instance so the KV…

Claude Code v2.1.268

Introducing the Agents API

Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.…

Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop

Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations stay private Today, the Amazon Quick desk…

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.…

Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate

Learn how to build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow with Amazon Quick Automate. Read a multi-tab RFI workbook from Amazon S3, use natural-language promp…

MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecated

We have deprecated MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) toda…

Build more natural voice experiences with GPT‑Live‑1 in the API

GPT‑Live‑1 brings natural, full-duplex voice conversations to the API, with stronger instruction following, custom voices, and telephony support.…

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles i…

Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video

Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up wit…

Winning: What the best athletes, teams, and coaches do differently

Eight disciplines for defining success, building the system to achieve it, and finding an edge when the margin between good and great is razor-thin.…

Capturing untapped value in capital-intensive industries

Maintenance outages remain one of the largest, most complex performance drivers for operators. Here’s how digital and AI can help.…

How AvioBook builds turnaround insights from operational data with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AvioBook, a Thales Group Company, prototyped Connected Analytics on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn AvioBook Connect's operational data into plain-language, ev…

Agent Evaluation Metric for multi-turn conversations

Multi-turn agents fail in ways single-turn evaluation misses: one early mistake corrupts every later turn. This post introduces the Agent Evaluation Metric (AEM…

Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs

A configurable, model-agnostic detector that turns any large language model on Amazon Bedrock into a PII detector. Because the entities to detect live in a prom…

One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

Some quick notes on a truly weird week.…