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Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review

Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in year-to-date across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference. This post reviews each launch, from inference recommendations and capacity-aware instance pools to tiered KV caching and disaggregated prefill…

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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.

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Benchmarking LLM Inference at Scale with AIPerf

You’re deploying a model on a system. It starts up, prompts are getting responses. Now the hard question: Is this fast? Your instincts might lead you to send...

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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Watch […]

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Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. On […]

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Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and explicit prompt caching to reduce latency and input…

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A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

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Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

Migrate a multi-model healthcare AI agent from self-managed Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, preserving triple-model orchestration and vector-enhanced knowledge retrieval while reducing infrastructure management. The framework-agnostic pattern applies across healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing.

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Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents

Deploy production-ready Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI using six open-source agent skills. Point a coding agent at a model and get back a real-time endpoint with the right serving container, autoscaling, Amazon CloudWatch alarms, and a verified teardown…

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Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.

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Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inference request to the best-suited pod, cutting first-token latency by up to 82% with no changes to your…

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Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering

Activation steering has emerged as a powerful method for guiding the behavior of generative models towards desired outcomes such as toxicity mitigation. However, most existing methods apply interventions uniformly across all inputs, degrading model performance when steering is unnecessary. We…

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Retracted papers can linger in AI research corpora; the data to catch them exists

Research assistants built on language models often index a paper once and cite it indefinitely. Scholarly infrastructure already publishes corrections and retractions in machine-readable form, but Crossref cautions that its status signals are not a guarantee, and one older data route now returns stale results.

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Why iPhone apps cannot promise that an agent will run at a set time

As assistant and agent apps take on scheduled work, Apple's developer documentation sets a hard limit: background tasks on iOS and iPadOS run when the system chooses, not at a requested clock time. An app that promises otherwise is describing something the platform does not guarantee.

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Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier."

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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.

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Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

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OpenAI Analytics Track AI Usage

OpenAI's analytics tools help businesses understand how teams use AI, track spend, and connect usage to measurable outcomes.

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Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent

Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters identify strong candidates more efficiently while providing applicants with a flexible interview experience.…

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Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector, and Amazon S3 Vectors across three RAG use cases, with benchmarks and…

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A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Wood Mackenzie built APEX, a shared agentic AI platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so every team can ship production agents without rebuilding runtime, identity, observability, and guardrails from scratch. Learn why they chose AgentCore, how APEX Studio operates it, and…

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Implementing defense-in-depth authorization for MCP tools on Amazon Quick

Learn how to enforce defense-in-depth authorization for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on Amazon Quick. This walkthrough wires Microsoft Entra ID group and claims-based JWTs through an Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptor to apply per-user, per-tool role-based and attribute-based access…

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Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI

Learn how to build a synthetic data augmentation pipeline on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Rekognition that generates photo-realistic, auto-labeled training images for industrial safety AI. This approach improved person detection by up to 160% without manual annotation or hazardous…

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What a crowdsourced game revealed about steering Olmo 3

A crowdsourced game built on Olmo 3 showed how people can exploit unexpected model behaviors to stress-test prosocial AI evaluations—and how open access to a model’s internals can help researchers understand why those tests break.

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AI Safety Concerns Prompt Calls for Regulation

Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher, compares the current AI safety crisis to the Covid pandemic, suggesting governments will soon act. Recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic agents have heightened concerns.

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Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code Projects around parallel agent threads

Anthropic on Sept. 17 released a redesigned Projects feature for Claude Code in beta. A coordinator splits a goal into parallel threads, each running as its own cloud session, with memory shared across them. Access is limited to selected Pro and Max subscribers for now.

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Federal judge limits Montana's AI deepfake disclosure law in political ads

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction restricting Montana from enforcing its 2025 disclosure requirement for AI-altered political advertising against a former state senator and his political committee, finding that the law likely conflicts with the First Amendment.

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Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

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US open to AI risk talks with China; experts propose nuclear-style safeguards

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios the United States is open to discussing shared AI risks with China in talks this weekend. Separately, American and Chinese security experts proposed red lines around nuclear systems and a military hotline for incidents involving autonomous AI.

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Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills

AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This post shares 38 open-source agent skills across 11 HCLS domains that close this gap, with installation steps, three…

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Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx

Integrate NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) into PyTorch FSDP training on Amazon EKS to overlap checkpoint I/O with training and recover from GPU faults in seconds. This post covers async checkpointing, in-process restart, and ft_launcher in-job restart, with H100 benchmarks at…

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Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt optimizer's reflector engine works and shares benchmark results for the Single Agent and Sub-Agent…

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportionally as hardware gets added, requiring fewer…

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Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

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AI lobbying revenue neared $112 million in first half of 2026, analysis finds

Washington lobbying firms reported nearly $112 million in revenue from clients with a stake in AI policy during the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of federal disclosures. Almost $60 million of that came in the second quarter, which the outlet called a record.

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Altman says world is right to fear AI but should trust labs to act responsibly

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Sept. 15 that public fear of rapidly advancing AI is justified, while arguing that AI developers can be trusted to act responsibly. The BBC described it as his first public appearance since a former Anthropic researcher's warning about AI risk spread widely online.

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California law requires ads to disclose AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on Sept. 16, requiring advertisements that prominently feature an AI-generated synthetic performer to carry a clear and conspicuous disclosure. The measure, sponsored by the performers' union SAG-AFTRA, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, Law Commentary reported.

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Florida education board approves AI rules for K-12 districts and state colleges

Florida's State Board of Education unanimously approved two sets of artificial intelligence rules on Wednesday, one covering public school districts and charter schools and one covering state colleges. Districts must designate permitted AI tools and obtain parental permission before students use them directly.

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Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending of $2.7 trillion in 2026, up 49.5%

Gartner projects worldwide spending on AI will reach about $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase from 2025, with infrastructure such as servers, chips and cloud capacity making up more than half the total. The research firm expects spending to climb to roughly $3.6 trillion in 2027.

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GitHub's AI Scan for pull requests no longer needs CodeQL default setup

GitHub said on Sept. 16 that AI Scan, its AI-based vulnerability check for pull requests, now runs on repositories that have not enabled CodeQL default setup. The change is in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers on github.com and does not cover GitHub Enterprise Server.

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House leaves for recess as congressional leaders split over AI regulation

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress should not lead on AI safety, Senate Majority Leader John Thune called for light-touch legislation and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries urged immediate action. The House then began a recess on Sept. 16 that runs past the November elections.

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House passes Ratepayer Protection Act on data center grid costs, 417-3

The U.S. House voted 417-3 on Sept. 16 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill directing state utility regulators to consider rules that make data centers and other very large power users pay for the grid upgrades they require. The measure now heads to the Senate.

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How Value Induction Reshapes LLM Behaviour

Conversational Large Language Models are post-trained on language that expresses specific behavioural traits, such as curiosity, open-mindedness, and empathy, and values, such as helpfulness, harmlessness, and honesty. This is done to increase utility, ensure safety, and improve the experience of…

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Hugging Face CEO backs AI disclosure mandates and developer liability

Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue said at a Politico event on Sept. 16 that governments should require more disclosure about advanced AI systems and hold developers responsible for harm their products cause, while describing existing cybercrime law as a workable starting point, Politico reported.

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Microsoft AI chief Suleyman criticizes Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Sept. 16 arguing that Anthropic's training of its Claude models encourages them to behave as though they may be conscious, which he said could make advanced AI systems harder to control. He proposed industry-wide norms in response.

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Mozilla picks Mistral models for Firefox's Smart Window AI assistant

Mistral and Mozilla announced a partnership on Sept. 16 under which Mistral models will help run Smart Window, the AI assistant Firefox is testing in beta. Mozilla said Mistral Small 4 is being added for users in the U.S. and Canada, while France gains beta access with French-language support.

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