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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

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OpenAI just wants to win
Briefing

OpenAI just wants to win

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet…

Claude Code v2.1.269
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.269

Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build and deploy an MCP App with interactive HTML widgets on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Because MCP Apps is a host-agnostic standard, the same serve…

Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload
Practice

Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload

Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness…

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

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
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.268

Everyone needs a Muse
Briefing

Everyone needs a Muse

ChatGPT images got better, again…

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work
Briefing

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erup…

Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
Practice

Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

Learn how to deploy Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM. This walkthrough covers cluster provi…

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026
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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Reg…

Claude Code v2.1.267
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.267

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants
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Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants

We are excited to share that Gartner has named Google a Leader in its inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Assistants. In this comprehensive evaluati…

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
Briefing

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s&#1…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.2
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.2

More than 1 in 10 chance AI ‘could kill all humans,’ says Anthropic safety lead after colleague quits
Briefing

More than 1 in 10 chance AI ‘could kill all humans,’ says Anthropic safety lead after colleague quits

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, j…

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
Research

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium P…

Take on your most ambitious work with GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Take on your most ambitious work with GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock

GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. It brings deeper reasoning and sharper judgment to your most demanding tasks, running on t…

Claude Code v2.1.266
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.266

ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images
Briefing

ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new fea…

Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
Briefing

Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In …

Claude Code v2.1.265
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.265

A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
Briefing

A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users

Anthropic says power users are key to its business - it's prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of…

Benchmarking small LLM inference on SageMaker AI: G7 vs G5 and G6
Practice

Benchmarking small LLM inference on SageMaker AI: G7 vs G5 and G6

Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Co…

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
Research

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth…

The first GPT-6 model
Briefing

The first GPT-6 model

and what I’m building with it…

Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments
Briefing

Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biolog…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.1
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.1

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Research

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story…

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
Briefing

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used thei…

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
Briefing

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.…