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Aug 25, 2026 Announcements Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing

Introducing Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

Aug 14, 2026 Announcements How Claude’s text watermark works

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.

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

How to Use OpenRouter Presets: Config-as-Code Guide

A preset is config-as-code for your LLM calls: a named, versioned set of models, system prompts, provider routing, and sampling parameters

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.

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-Region inference

How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Heurist built Heurist Finance, a conversational AI investment workbench, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

At the IBC conference, running Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, the creative

Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux shares how Codex was built and how it’s reshaping software development.

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space.

AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips

Qualcomm is designing custom chips for AWS across multiple product generations, with a focus on AI inference

ChatGPT Images 2.5: Faster, more precise, but not the same for everyone

OpenAI is releasing two new image models with ChatGPT Images 2.5. Flare handles faster generation, Sunburst delivers more precise edits

Inception launches Mercury 2.5 at 1,107 tokens per second

Inception releases Mercury 2.5, a diffusion LLM offering 1,107 tokens per second, a 260K context window, and low launch pricing.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster editing

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.5 delivers faster generation, precise multi-turn edits, Sketch, templates, and two new API models.

GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work

Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s most capable model for business, with advanced reasoning, computer use, and stronger writing and design judgment.

[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded

Overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2.5. The most jam packed, feel the AGI day in the history of AI.

The Open Source AI Stack

A deep dive into the open model AI stack — model, inference, gateways and routers, harness

Nano Banana API: Edit Images with Gemini in Code

Send a source image and an edit prompt in one request, get the edited image back, and change the editing model by editing a single field. Runnable Python and TypeScript included.

The Anatomy of Harness Engineering: How to Evaluate, Iterate, and Guard AI Coding Agents

While end-to-end benchmarks like SWE-bench provide broad performance scores for AI agents, they are often expensive, slow

Announcing ADK for Kotlin 1.0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Kotlin, Android, and Beyond

Google has officially released version 1.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin, achieving full feature parity with the Python and Java ADK cores to enable idiomatic

What is happening with code reviews?

AI generates more code than devs can track in 2026, so will the code review process have to adapt – or is it doomed

Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions

Wire Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations into a GitHub Actions pipeline: deploy an AI agent and an OAuth-protected MCP server to AgentCore runtime

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

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