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How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

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Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey
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Elevating the customer experience: IKEA’s agentic AI journey

The Swedish home-furnishing giant’s chief digital officer discusses the need to prioritize AI initiatives amid ‘the risk of doing everything but maybe nothing.’…

Prudential’s Charles Lowrey on finishing strong as CEO
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Prudential’s Charles Lowrey on finishing strong as CEO

Much has been written about a CEO’s first 100 days, but what about the other end of the journey?…

The seven operating truths of AI-native companies
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The seven operating truths of AI-native companies

Almost every company has AI tools, but few really know how to use them. Leaders at 15 AI-savvy companies say the difference comes down to seven operating truths…

How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development
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How frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development

Frontier teams are not just using AI to code faster. They’re redesigning how software gets built. The result is 4.5x productivity gains, in some cases more than…

Optimize blueprint extraction accuracy in Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
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Optimize blueprint extraction accuracy in Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Blueprint instruction optimization is a BDA feature that automatically refines your extraction instructions to address this challenge directly. You provide thre…

Spot trends faster, sort smarter: Unlocking Sparklines and Custom Sort in Amazon Quick
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Spot trends faster, sort smarter: Unlocking Sparklines and Custom Sort in Amazon Quick

Today, we’re excited to announce two new capabilities that make Quick Sight dashboards even more expressive and business-aligned: sparklines and custom sort for…

Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit
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Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit

Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Cla…

Orb Joins Adyen to Unify Revenue Design
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Orb Joins Adyen to Unify Revenue Design

Today, Adyen has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orb, the modern standard for usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure. For Adyen, it …

Powering the next era of Confidential AI
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Powering the next era of Confidential AI

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most advanced, secure, and private infrastructure for the most demanding AI workloads, and partnering with a b…

Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically
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Extract Data with On-demand and Batch Pipelines Dynamically

This post demonstrates an intelligent document processing pipeline that consists of both on-demand inference and batch inference options on Amazon Bedrock to en…

GitHub Copilot app now available in the usage metrics API
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GitHub Copilot app now available in the usage metrics API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports the GitHub Copilot app usage in the enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports. This gives enterprise and or…

A scorecard for the AI age
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A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on comp…

Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make
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Workflow lab: Deploying designs directly with Figma Make

NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI
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NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient …

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released
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Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them…

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
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How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.…

Nemotron Labs: How Open Models Give Enterprises and Nations AI They Can Trust, Control and Customize
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Nemotron Labs: How Open Models Give Enterprises and Nations AI They Can Trust, Control and Customize

Enterprises have plenty of powerful models to choose from. The real test is whether the AI an enterprise builds uniquely addresses the needs of the business: im…

How to use GPT-5.6
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How to use GPT-5.6

new desktop app and hosted sites in ChatGPT…

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

FASHN AI: reimagining fashion and photography
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FASHN AI: reimagining fashion and photography

fal EditorialDeep dives with the companies taking AI seriously in the industries that matter. One company, one hard problem, and what it actually takes to solve…

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.…

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
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OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, …

AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar
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AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar

AI Challenge Competition Info Webinar Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/09/2026 - 12:39   22 July 2026 Join the AI-BOOST Info Webinar on 22 July at 11:00 CE…

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
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How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.…

How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks
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How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks

Explore practical ChatGPT Work use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.…

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

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…

How We Achieved ~1000 tok/s and 16x Throughput with DSpark for Ideogram V4 Prompt Expander
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How We Achieved ~1000 tok/s and 16x Throughput with DSpark for Ideogram V4 Prompt Expander

At @fal , we've achieved 16 times higher throughput on Qwen3.6 for a use-case that required high interactivity per user using DSpark on SGLang. But why did…

Add review cycles and time to adoption phases in the usage API
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Add review cycles and time to adoption phases in the usage API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports two additional code-review velocity metrics for each AI adoption phase, extending the adoption phase cohorts fields av…