2026-09-09
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.
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2026-09-09
Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-09
[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
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-09
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
2026-09-08
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.
2026-09-08
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
2026-09-07
OpenAI prepares managed agents for DevDay 2026
OpenAI's DevDay plans point to managed agents for businesses, with new agent environments, skills, plugins, and possible agent-led ads.
2026-08-17
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