Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race
Microsoft released Decision-1, a decision model built for fast, structured decisions such as classifications.
Microsoft released Decision-1, a decision model built for fast, structured decisions such as classifications.
Standard Bots, an AI-native industrial robot maker with $200M in Series C funding at a $1B valuation.
A study of coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review acts as a significant bottleneck for AI coding tools.
Anthropic added dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, letting a lead agent plan.
Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to make its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests. The goal is to offer customers more capable models.
Edinburgh-based Danu Robotics has brought its H.E.R.O. recycling sorting robot to market.
Ai2's AI Infrastructure team replaced its priority-based GPU scheduler with GPU time budgets.
Postman detailed how its Agent Mode serves 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock.
AWS's September 2026 Bedrock updates added OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models.
Sophos uses OpenAI's Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
Simon Willison released ttok 1.0, switching the default tokenizer from GPT-4 to the GPT-5/GPT-6 family. The change follows an experiment by William Liu showing all seven GPT models (5.5.
Simon Willison released ttok 0.4, updating his tiktoken-based token-counting CLI after a couple of years. The release fixes a Click warning.
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.
NVIDIA developers are using frontier AI models such as GPT-6 Astra with Omniverse libraries to turn simulation ideas into working applications. Projects include a humanoid warehouse simulator, an autonomous-driving test workflow on San Francisco's Market Street, and Robo Olympics, where a simulated Unitree G1 humanoid cleared a hurdle in 64 of 100 trials.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments lets agents pay for services on demand.
Oracle is using ChatGPT Work and Codex to turn specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows across recruiting, engineering, and operations, cutting days of work down to minutes.
Goodfire launched monitors that read a model's internal activations rather than its output.
AWS details a reference architecture for running multi-tenant GPU clusters on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with EKS.
Ambrosia Energy CEO Ben Longmier and Bloom Energy's Bill Thayer will speak on the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about where the AI infrastructure boom is creating winners. The session examines constraints in power generation, grid connections, data centers, and cooling that are shaping durable business opportunities as AI scaling becomes a physical-world problem.
Google is launching a universal Gemini AI agent that works across apps and devices in the background.
Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region.
Nvidia is betting on physical AI with its Halos operating system.
AVEVA chief technologist Arti Garg outlines a responsible-AI framework for industrial automation.
Simon Willison documented running Parseable, a new OpenTelemetry-compatible observability tool.
Hark, a startup founded less than a year ago by serial founder Brett Adcock, released Hark Pro.
AWS shows how to build an airline voice concierge on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
AWS now lets users create and manage SageMaker Spaces on HyperPod EKS clusters directly from the SageMaker Studio UI.
AWS outlines a four-layer governance model for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod — organization.
AWS outlines how customers can align AI governance with ISO/IEC 42005:2025, which codifies AI system impact assessment practices. The standard covers the full assessment lifecycle.
At its first live event in two years, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a fast low-cost model priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output tokens up to 100.
Microsoft revealed specs and pricing for its Nvidia RTX Spark-based AI PCs at a San Francisco event during Tech Week.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic.
Why it matters: The post details Haiku 5.5's effort controls and subagent role, useful for judging cost and routing tradeoffs.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and most affordable small model.
Why it matters: The pricing table and benchmark jumps let readers weigh Haiku 5.5 against their own cost-sensitive workloads.
Microsoft unveiled Surface Laptop Ultra release details at its San Francisco keynote.
Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases add real-time ACL enforcement on top of pre-retrieval filtering.
At its Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed an upgrade to Copilot that gives it access to local files on a PC and the ability to take actions across the OS.
Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for about $6.
GitHub built a fine-tuned ModernBERT classifier with Microsoft Applied Sciences that assesses candidate secrets in context in under two milliseconds.
Why it matters: GitHub's nine quarters of push data and the latency budget behind its new secret classifier show how prevention is being moved into the push path.
Microsoft Research Asia open-sourced Agent Lightning v1.0, a roughly 3.
Why it matters: The original gives the framework's design choices and a measured SWE-bench gain, so readers can judge whether to reuse their existing harness for RL.