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AI regulation and governance across the EU, US, China, UK and Asia: the AI Act, national strategies, safety institutes and global policy moves.

AI regulation and governance across the EU, US, China, UK and Asia: the AI Act, national strategies, safety institutes and global policy moves.

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Nomination and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate
Policy

Nomination and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter Clayton, of New York, to be Director of National Intelligence, vice Tulsi Gabbard. WITHDRAWAL SENT TO THE SENATE: Walter C…

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”
Briefing

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”

The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC.…

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution
Briefing

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new pol…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’
Briefing

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocki…

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
Briefing

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the Eu…

Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
Briefing

Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of t…

Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components
Practice

Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components

Learn how Salesforce used Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Component placement (the SchedulingConfig parameter) to distribute model copies across multiple Availabi…

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
Briefing

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rol…

Global model policy generally available
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Global model policy generally available

In July, we announced a default model policy for generally available GitHub Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Starting today, we&…

Introducing Intelligence Age
Labs

Introducing Intelligence Age

Introducing Intelligence Age, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.…

Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
Labs

Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex

Use the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests.…

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Practice

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specif…

AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization
Practice

AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization

Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered me…

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
Practice

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery

AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (A…

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
Practice

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Co…

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours
Practice

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-…

Introducing AI Futures
Labs

Introducing AI Futures

Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.…

Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers
Practice

Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers

Since announcing Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at I/O in May, we’ve heard helpful feedback from our customers. Your developers want eas…

Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how AWS Professional Services uses a multi-agent framework built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate enterprise cloud migrations end to end. Purpose-b…

Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AI agents can take actions that do not match your organization's policies. Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets teams enforce controls across agents, now inc…

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
Research

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at thei…

Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock

Learn how to add context-aware security monitoring to FHIR APIs using Amazon Bedrock. This post shows how to detect anomalous access patterns, classify data sen…

Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
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Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrat…

How Box is unlocking multimodal enterprise agents with Gemini Embeddings 2
Practice

How Box is unlocking multimodal enterprise agents with Gemini Embeddings 2

Enterprise content management is experiencing its biggest architectural shift since the cloud migration era. For years, enterprises have stored trillions of gig…

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services
Practice

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services

For financial institutions, operational resilience has long been embedded in regulatory and supervisory expectations — to say nothing of the high expectations o…

Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
Briefing

Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights…

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age
Labs

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.…

Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how to build a multi-agent M&A due diligence system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a reference architecture that combines agent …

How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS
Practice

How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS

Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMake…

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act
Practice

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By descri…