# forck.live > Live feed of AI lab newsrooms. First-party announcements, traced to the source. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the plain-text mirror of the record, newest first. Every entry is one first-party announcement: `Source` is the company's own page it was traced to, `Record` is this site's page for it, and both are safe to cite. - Feed: https://forck.live - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt - RSS: https://forck.live/feed.xml ## Announcements ### xAI — Grok Bot now works with X - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-and-x - Record: https://forck.live/items/5037-grok-bot-now-works-with-x Grok Bot now integrates with X, allowing users to connect their X account, get free X API credits, and perform actions like searching posts, reading timelines, and checking mentions. ### GitHub — GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — August update - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T20:24:20+00:00 - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-28-github-copilot-in-visual-studio-august-update-2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4670-github-copilot-in-visual-studio-august-update August 2026 brought more control over how GitHub Copilot reasons, which models you use, how teams share specialized agents, and when you ask for a code review. ### GitHub — GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24 - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T20:13:22+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-28-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4734-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24 GitHub Copilot weekly releases on August 24 include new features such as team sessions in Slack and Teams, a generally available Customize tab that brings MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases… ### Amazon — Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T19:31:05+00:00 - Category: api-release - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/batch-write-and-discover-records-in-amazon-sagemaker-feature-store/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4638-batch-write-and-discover-records-in-amazon-sagemaker-feature-store Amazon announces two new APIs for SageMaker Feature Store: BatchWriteRecord for batch writing up to 25 records across multiple feature groups, and ListRecords for enumerating record identifiers… ### Perplexity — GLM 5.3 - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-28T16:36:56+00:00 - Category: api-release - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5056-glm-5-3 The Agent API and Router API now support the perplexity/glm-5.3 model with specified pricing. ### Amazon — How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T16:22:30+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-decathlon-runs-demand-forecasting-at-scale-with-chronos-2/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4635-how-decathlon-runs-demand-forecasting-at-scale-with-chronos-2 Decathlon, a major sporting goods retailer, selected Chronos-2 as a core component of its forecasting stack after evaluating multiple time series foundation models. ### Amazon — Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T16:20:40+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/spreading-the-load-how-salesforce-met-multi-az-ha-with-sagemaker-inference-components/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4633-spreading-the-load-how-salesforce-met-multi-az-ha-with-sagemaker-inference AWS announced the SchedulingConfig parameter for the CreateInferenceComponent API in Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Components, giving customers fine-grained control over IC copy placement across… ### GitHub — Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T11:37:19+00:00 - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-28-upcoming-changes-to-github-copilot-policies-and-billing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4585-upcoming-changes-to-github-copilot-policies-and-billing GitHub announces upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing: billing changes for Copilot Business/Enterprise starting September/October 2026, convergence of Copilot Chat experiences into a… ### OpenAI — Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T06:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 33 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex - Record: https://forck.live/items/5018-our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex OpenAI announced it will wind down its contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX. ### OpenAI — Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T02:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/supporting-next-generation-ai-startups-thailand - Record: https://forck.live/items/4574-supporting-thailand-s-next-generation-of-ai-startups OpenAI and Thailand's MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator to help 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products. ### Together AI — GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.3 Flash on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/glm-5-3-vs-glm-5-3-flash-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing - Record: https://forck.live/items/5017-glm-5-3-vs-glm-5-3-flash-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing An analysis comparing GLM-5.3 and its distilled sibling GLM-5.3 Flash on the DeepSWE benchmark, finding that the Flash variant retains 94% of solved tasks at one-seventeenth the cost but loses… ### Hugging Face — The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-global-south - Record: https://forck.live/items/4657-the-open-asr-leaderboard-adds-its-first-global-south-language The Open ASR Leaderboard adds two new evaluation sets, Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN, for Hindi and Indian English, to address bias and improve representation of Global South languages and diverse… ### Cohere — Generative AI for business: Use cases, benefits, and adoption - Company: Cohere (cohere.com) - Announced: 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Command - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/generative-ai-for-business - Record: https://forck.live/items/4573-generative-ai-for-business-use-cases-benefits-and-adoption This blog post provides a general overview of generative AI for business, covering use cases, benefits, and challenges. It does not announce any new product, model, or feature. ### Amazon — Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T23:04:22+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-agentic-creative-workflows-with-amazon-quick-and-fal/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4536-build-agentic-creative-workflows-with-amazon-quick-and-fal Amazon announces an integration between Amazon Quick and fal via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling agentic creative workflows for media teams. ### GitHub — Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T22:46:04+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-27-copilot-code-review-resolution-reasons-and-expanded-capabilities - Record: https://forck.live/items/4535-copilot-code-review-resolution-reasons-and-expanded-capabilities GitHub Copilot code review now supports reviewing pull requests authored by bots (including Copilot cloud agent) and very large pull requests, and adds the ability to specify a resolution reason… ### Amazon — Introducing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock for in-country inferencing in India - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T18:36:08+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-openai-models-on-amazon-bedrock-for-in-country-inferencing-in-india/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4532-introducing-openai-models-on-amazon-bedrock-for-in-country-inferencing-in-india Amazon Bedrock announces the availability of OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with India geographic cross-Region inference, allowing customers to process inference requests and data… ### Amazon — Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T18:36:08+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-india-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4525-introducing-india-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with India geographic cross-Region inference, enabling data residency within India. ### Google Research — Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-27T17:37:20+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4522-planetary-prediction-engine-automating-global-models-via-earth-ai Google Research introduces the planetary prediction engine (PPE), an experimental research capability under the Google Earth AI initiative that autonomously executes the full geospatial modeling… ### Perplexity — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-27T17:10:21+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5063-deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Perplexity announced support for the new model perplexity/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 in its Agent API and Router API, describing it as a fast, efficient open reasoning model with a 1M-token context… ### Perplexity — NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-27T17:10:21+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5062-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning Perplexity's Agent API and Router API now support the perplexity/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b model, an open-weight reasoning model, with pricing details. ### Perplexity — NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-27T17:10:21+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5061-nvidia-nemotron-3-ultra Perplexity's Agent API and Router API now support the perplexity/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b model at the stated pricing. ### Microsoft — Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs - Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T17:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Azure AI - Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/managed-postgresql-vs-self-hosted-postgresql-key-benefits-and-trade-offs/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4562-managed-postgresql-vs-self-hosted-postgresql-key-benefits-and-trade-offs Microsoft publishes a comparison of managed PostgreSQL (Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure HorizonDB) versus self-hosted PostgreSQL, discussing trade-offs in control, operational tax, security, and… ### Google DeepMind — Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-27T16:11:32+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Gemini - Coverage: Covered by 9 outlets - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-omni-1-1-flash-lets-you-build-with-more-control/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4515-gemini-omni-1-1-flash-lets-you-build-with-more-control Google DeepMind announces Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities including scene extension, first and last frame interpolation, 360p draft mode, 4K… ### Amazon — Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T16:11:27+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/deepgram-deepens-amazon-sagemaker-ai-observability-with-enhanced-metrics/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4516-deepgram-deepens-amazon-sagemaker-ai-observability-with-enhanced-metrics Deepgram announces Enhanced Metrics and Prometheus/OpenTelemetry support for its speech-to-text and text-to-speech models deployed on Amazon SageMaker AI, providing billing and usage transparency and… ### Amazon — Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2 - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T16:05:10+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/reduce-asr-inference-costs-by-75-with-nvidia-mps-on-amazon-ec2/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4517-reduce-asr-inference-costs-by-75-with-nvidia-mps-on-amazon-ec2 Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, and Heidi Health announce a solution that uses NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon EC2 GPU instances to reduce GPU… ### Tencent — Introducing Hy4 preview - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T16:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Hunyuan - Coverage: Covered by 7 outlets - Source: https://hunyuan.tencent.com/research/hy4-preview - Record: https://forck.live/items/4575-introducing-hy4-preview Tencent releases Hy4 preview, a 770B-parameter model with 49B active parameters and a 1M-token context window, open-sourced and available on Tencent Cloud and OpenRouter. ### Google DeepMind — Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-27T12:59:16+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Gemini - Coverage: Covered by 4 outlets - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/piloting-the-worlds-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4499-piloting-the-world-s-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations Google DeepMind announces the world's first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model, using cryptographic environments to prevent benchmark contamination. ### Google Antigravity — Teamwork: When AI Becomes a Research Partner - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-27T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/teamwork-when-ai-becomes-a-research-partner - Record: https://forck.live/items/4539-teamwork-when-ai-becomes-a-research-partner Antigravity announces several updates to Teamwork, a multi-agent orchestration framework, including new patterns like Iterative Coding, Distributed Coding, Long Proof, Self-Verification, and Document… ### OpenAI — Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T09:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/what-students-gain-from-chatgpt-critical-thinking-training - Record: https://forck.live/items/4519-better-answers-broader-thinking-what-students-gain-from-chatgpt-and-critical OpenAI published a study involving over 1,000 students that examines the impact of ChatGPT and critical-thinking training on originality and student performance in a real-world university assignment. ### OpenAI — Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T03:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/expanding-our-presence-in-brazil - Record: https://forck.live/items/4497-expanding-openai-s-presence-in-brazil OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil to increase AI adoption among developers, businesses, and communities. ### GitHub — Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T01:52:19+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-26-enterprise-managed-settings-now-support-autoupdate-for-plugin-marketplaces - Record: https://forck.live/items/4493-enterprise-managed-settings-now-support-autoupdate-for-plugin-marketplaces Enterprise-managed settings now support opting individual plugin marketplaces into automatic updates by setting autoUpdate: true, reducing manual maintenance for organization customizations. ### LG AI Research — [ACL 2026] ReSQL: A Self-Improving Text-to-SQL Framework through Retrieval-Augmented Error Reasoning - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: EXAONE - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=676 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4736-acl-2026-resql-a-self-improving-text-to-sql-framework-through-retrieval LG AI Research introduces ReSQL, a self-improving Text-to-SQL framework that uses retrieval-augmented error reasoning to correct queries, demonstrating error reductions on benchmarks. ### Anthropic — Expanding our support for scientists - Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Claude - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-support-for-scientists - Record: https://forck.live/items/4527-expanding-our-support-for-scientists Anthropic announces 10,000 free or discounted Claude subscriptions for scientists via a new team plan, expands AI for Science program with up to $50,000 in credits per project, and notes restrictions… ### Anthropic — Previewing the Model Hardware Standard - Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: Claude - Coverage: Covered by 17 outlets - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview - Record: https://forck.live/items/4524-previewing-the-model-hardware-standard Anthropic is previewing the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification enabling AI agents to safely operate physical devices like microscopes and robotic arms, reducing integration time… ### Cursor — Start from scratch, without a repo - Company: Cursor (cursor.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Cursor - Source: https://cursor.com/changelog/start-from-scratch - Record: https://forck.live/items/4521-start-from-scratch-without-a-repo Cursor Cloud Agents now support starting without a connected repository, allowing users to prompt from scratch and save work to a Cursor Origin repo. ### Cohere — Why forward-deployed engineers should build capability, not dependency - Company: Cohere (cohere.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Command - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/forward-deployed-engineers-capability-building - Record: https://forck.live/items/4507-why-forward-deployed-engineers-should-build-capability-not-dependency Cohere discusses how forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) can build customer capability to avoid vendor lock-in, emphasizing co-building and knowledge transfer rather than creating operational… ### Cohere — Introducing Parse: Enterprise document intelligence at scale - Company: Cohere (cohere.com) - Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Command - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/parse - Record: https://forck.live/items/4496-introducing-parse-enterprise-document-intelligence-at-scale Cohere announces Parse, a cost-effective vision language model for enterprise document parsing, available via API and Model Vault, with pricing at $1.50 per 1,000 pages. ### GitHub — Global model policy generally available - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T22:08:38+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-26-global-model-policy-generally-available - Record: https://forck.live/items/4486-global-model-policy-generally-available GitHub is rolling out enforcement of a default model policy for Copilot Business and Enterprise plans, making it generally available. ### NVIDIA — NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T21:05:30+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: AI platform - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvlink-fusion-nvhbm-custom-high-bandwidth-memory/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4479-nvidia-nvlink-fusion-expands-with-nvhbm-custom-high-bandwidth-memory NVIDIA announced NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory technology that integrates the memory controller into the HBM stack, delivering up to 30% greater memory bandwidth, 15% lower power consumption,… ### Amazon — Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T19:13:35+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/evaluate-any-agent-framework-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-evaluations/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4475-evaluate-any-agent-framework-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-evaluations Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is a new evaluation service that uses OpenTelemetry to score any agent framework (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, Strands… ### Google Research — GlucoFM: Foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-26T18:42:43+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/glucofm-foundation-model-for-continuous-glucose-monitoring/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4471-glucofm-foundation-model-for-continuous-glucose-monitoring Google Research announces GlucoFM, a lightweight self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring that uses a dual-stream design to separate slower glycemic trends from short-term… ### Google DeepMind — Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-26T17:01:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/intelligent-transcription-with-gemini-3-5-transcribe/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4467-intelligent-transcription-with-gemini-3-5-transcribe Google DeepMind announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a new speech-to-text model for real-time transcription, available via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ### Amazon — How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:51:53+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-godaddy-transformed-its-analytics-with-amazon-quick/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4464-how-godaddy-transformed-its-analytics-with-amazon-quick This post describes how GoDaddy migrated from a legacy BI tool to Amazon Quick Sight, achieving performance improvements and cost savings. ### Amazon — Natera’s intelligent appointment scheduling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:36:35+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/nateras-intelligent-appointment-scheduling-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4465-natera-s-intelligent-appointment-scheduling-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore Natera built an intelligent appointment scheduling voice agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, achieving 100% tool-calling accuracy and sub-7-second latency at less than $0.01 per call. ### Amazon — Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3 - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:31:32+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/bring-your-own-model-with-amazon-sagemaker-ai-script-mode-in-sdk-v3/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4466-bring-your-own-model-with-amazon-sagemaker-ai-script-mode-in-sdk-v3 Amazon announces script mode in SageMaker Python SDK v3, which allows users to bring their own model without building Docker images, using new unified classes ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder, and a… ### Amazon — Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 2: Advanced data strategies - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:24:05+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/preparing-data-for-supervised-fine-tuning-part-2-advanced-data-strategies/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4443-preparing-data-for-supervised-fine-tuning-part-2-advanced-data-strategies The post is a guide on advanced data preparation strategies for supervised fine-tuning, covering learning curve analysis, data subset selection, augmentation, and mixing, with references to Amazon… ### Amazon — Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:24:02+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/preparing-data-for-supervised-fine-tuning-part-1-formatting-and-quality/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4444-preparing-data-for-supervised-fine-tuning-part-1-formatting-and-quality This is a blog post providing guidance on preparing data for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of foundation models. ### Microsoft — The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost - Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T16:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Azure AI - Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-economics-of-agent-optimization-four-ways-to-lower-the-cost/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4492-the-economics-of-agent-optimization-four-ways-to-lower-the-cost Microsoft Foundry blog post discusses four strategies to optimize agent costs: selecting the right model per request, caching, prompt and agent optimization, and observability. ### Amazon — Connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cross-account knowledge bases - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T15:48:10+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/connect-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-to-cross-account-knowledge-bases/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4441-connect-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-to-cross-account-knowledge-bases A blog post describing how to connect Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one AWS account to knowledge bases in another account using Amazon Redshift Serverless, with two orchestration variants: a… ### OpenAI — Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T10:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/learning-never-stops - Record: https://forck.live/items/4470-learning-never-stops-how-ai-makes-learning-continuous OpenAI published a report about how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, extending beyond the classroom. ### OpenAI — Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/bringing-chatgpt-for-teachers-to-more-us-school-districts - Record: https://forck.live/items/4469-bringing-chatgpt-for-teachers-to-more-u-s-school-districts OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 U.S. school systems, providing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 educators and staff. ### Google Antigravity — Visualizing with the help of Antigravity - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-26T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/visualizing-with-the-help-of-antigravity - Record: https://forck.live/items/4540-visualizing-with-the-help-of-antigravity Google Antigravity announces Generative UI and visual tooling that allows agents to create, render, and iterate on rich visual components, dynamic dashboards, interactive artifacts, and design… ### xAI — Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-microsoft-foundry - Record: https://forck.live/items/4491-grok-4-6-on-microsoft-foundry xAI announces that Grok 4.6 is now available on Microsoft Foundry, offering a 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts. ### OpenAI — The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 21 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead - Record: https://forck.live/items/4477-the-hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead OpenAI shares findings from a security incident involving Hugging Face and outlines steps to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment. ### Hugging Face — Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/train-multi-vector-encoder - Record: https://forck.live/items/4436-training-and-finetuning-multi-vector-embedding-models-with-sentence-transformers Sentence Transformers v6.0 introduces a new model type, MultiVectorEncoder, for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval, along with a complete training approach. ### OpenAI — How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/loveholidays - Record: https://forck.live/items/4428-how-loveholidays-is-making-everyone-a-builder-with-codex This post is a customer story about how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to enable software development across the business, allowing teams to quickly turn ideas into products. ### GitHub — GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T20:05:26+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-25-github-copilot-app-customize-tab-is-generally-available - Record: https://forck.live/items/4419-github-copilot-app-customize-tab-is-generally-available GitHub announced the general availability of the Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app, which unifies MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases in a single interface for discovering and managing… ### Google Research — AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-25T19:10:59+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/agenthands-generating-interactive-hand-gestures-for-spatially-grounded-agent-conversations-in-xr/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4418-agenthands-generating-interactive-hand-gestures-for-spatially-grounded-agent AgentHands is a research prototype that uses LLMs to generate synchronized hand gestures for AI agents in XR, enabling spatially grounded conversations. ### Amazon — Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T19:00:09+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-observability-with-amazon-opensearch-service-mcp-apps/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4417-agentic-observability-with-amazon-opensearch-service-mcp-apps Amazon OpenSearch Service announced MCP Apps, a capability that extends the Model Context Protocol to return interactive visualizations alongside text responses in AI assistant chats, enabling… ### Amazon — Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T16:35:01+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/governed-reports-with-amazon-quick-desktop-and-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4413-governed-reports-with-amazon-quick-desktop-and-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap Amazon announces Amazon Quick Desktop, a native desktop application that extends Amazon Quick with AI-assisted reporting capabilities, including local file access, background processing, and a… ### Hugging Face — Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-25T15:14:14+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4407-granite-4-2-llms-how-they-re-built IBM announced the Granite 4.2 family of reasoning LLMs in three sizes (3B, 8B, 30B), pre-trained from scratch on about 15T tokens, with a context window extended to 512K tokens, supervised… ### Hugging Face — Extremely Fast and Accurate Transcription with Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-25T15:01:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5-0-470m-turboctc - Record: https://forck.live/items/4405-extremely-fast-and-accurate-transcription-with-granite-speech-5-0-turbo-ctc IBM announces the release of two new Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC speech recognition models: a 470M-parameter Apache 2.0 licensed model and a CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 licensed model, both offering high… ### Hugging Face — Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-25T11:39:24+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/MultiverseComputingCAI/quantization-aware-healing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4396-quantization-aware-healing-a-compressed-4-bit-model-that-outperforms-its-full Introduces Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH), a method that distills from the original pre-compression model to recover capabilities lost during structural compression and quantization. ### OpenAI — The full stack behind abundant intelligence - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T07:05:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 10 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/the-full-stack-behind-abundant-intelligence - Record: https://forck.live/items/4410-the-full-stack-behind-abundant-intelligence OpenAI's CFO discusses the compounding effects of advances across hardware, compute, models, and products to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost. ### OpenAI — Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 20 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results - Record: https://forck.live/items/4404-jalape-o-s-first-results-show-industry-leading-speed-and-efficiency-in-ai OpenAI announced Jalapeño, a custom inference chip that offers faster, more power-efficient inference with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models. ### OpenAI — Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-admin-plugin - Record: https://forck.live/items/4414-introducing-the-admin-plugin-for-chatgpt-work-and-codex OpenAI introduces the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex, enabling workspace usage analysis, member and permission management, limit adjustments, and handling of admin requests. ### Anthropic — Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing - Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Subject: Claude - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/wellbeing-research-grants - Record: https://forck.live/items/4412-funding-better-evaluations-of-ai-s-impact-on-wellbeing Anthropic announces a $5 million grant program to fund independent research into how AI impacts users' wellbeing, providing direct funding, model access, and technical support to grantees building… ### Cohere — The state of sovereign AI adoption in 2026 - Company: Cohere (cohere.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Command - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/state-of-sovereign-ai-adoption-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4397-the-state-of-sovereign-ai-adoption-in-2026 Cohere announces findings from a commissioned IDC study on sovereign AI adoption, highlighting definitional gaps, top concerns (data leakage and compliance), and the need for a holistic strategy. ### OpenAI — Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: safety-policy-update - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 4 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia - Record: https://forck.live/items/4393-disrupting-a-new-covert-influence-campaign-from-russia OpenAI enforced its safety policy by banning accounts originating from Russia that were leveraging AI to promote a fabricated think tank and a sovereignty index that favored Russia and disparaged the… ### Hugging Face — Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-workflow-guide - Record: https://forck.live/items/4392-wire-it-run-it-deploy-it-ai-workflows-in-gradio Gradio introduces gr.Workflow, a new feature that allows users to build AI pipelines as a graph of typed nodes, which serves as a drag-and-drop interface, a REST API, and can be deployed to Hugging… ### Google Antigravity — Improving the Version Control Experience - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-24T20:30:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/vcs-and-terminal - Record: https://forck.live/items/4541-improving-the-version-control-experience The Antigravity 2.0 coding assistant now includes a VCS side panel and an embedded terminal, allowing users to perform Git operations, view diffs, stage and commit changes, and run command line tools… ### Amazon — Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T19:32:14+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-new-ray-capabilities-on-sagemaker-hyperpod/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4384-introducing-new-ray-capabilities-on-sagemaker-hyperpod Amazon announces new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod, integrating Ray with HyperPod's purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model training and serving. ### Amazon — Democratizing institutional knowledge: Building an AI-powered knowledge management system with AWS - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T18:59:15+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/democratizing-institutional-knowledge-building-an-ai-powered-knowledge-management-system-with-aws/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4382-democratizing-institutional-knowledge-building-an-ai-powered-knowledge This post presents a customizable, smart-caching cloud-based solution for knowledge management using AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Titan Text Embeddings, and an… ### Meta — MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet - Company: Meta (meta.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T18:02:29+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: Llama / infrastructure - Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/24/networking-traffic/metaroce-rdma-transport-ai-ethernet/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4377-metaroce-a-new-rdma-transport-built-for-ai-scale-ethernet Meta announced MetaRoCE, a new RDMA transport protocol designed for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet, and is releasing its specification, reference software implementation, and compliance test… ### Meta — MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines - Company: Meta (meta.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T17:45:52+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: Llama / infrastructure - Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/08/24/networking-traffic/mtia-300-meta-training-chip-built-in-nics/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4376-mtia-300-meta-s-first-training-chip-with-built-in-nics-and-communication Meta announces MTIA 300, its first training chip with built-in NIC chiplets and communication-offloading engines, designed to optimize communication for training recommendation models, achieving 3.9x… ### Amazon — Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T16:22:03+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4374-agentic-resource-discovery-ard-an-open-specification-for-agent-discovery Amazon announces the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification for federated agent discovery across environments, and the AWS Agent Registry, a centralized catalog for agents, MCP servers,… ### Amazon — Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T16:13:09+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-a-restaurant-telephony-ai-host-with-amazon-connect/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4372-building-a-restaurant-telephony-ai-host-with-amazon-connect Amazon Web Services published a blog post providing a walkthrough for building a restaurant telephony AI host using Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex V2, Amazon Connect Agentic Voice, Amazon Connect… ### Amazon — AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T15:53:03+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/ai-powered-metadata-correction-and-harmonization/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4373-ai-powered-metadata-correction-and-harmonization This blog post demonstrates an AI-powered metadata correction and harmonization workflow built on AWS, using Amazon Bedrock for LLM-powered schema alignment and correction recommendations. ### NVIDIA — How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T15:00:54+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: AI platform - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvlink-fusion-xpu-ai-factory/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4368-how-xpus-meet-a-world-class-ai-factory NVIDIA announced NVLink Fusion, an infrastructure solution that connects custom XPUs to NVIDIA's NVLink scale-up domain and AI factory ecosystem, enabling faster time to market and reduced risk for… ### NVIDIA — With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T15:00:41+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: AI platform - Coverage: Covered by 21 outlets - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-rubin-lpx-spectrum-x-nvlink-fusion/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4369-with-groq-3-lpx-in-full-production-nvidia-extends-vera-rubin-inference-for NVIDIA announced that its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is in full production, delivering 3,400 output tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B for 100,000-token long-context use cases, 4x faster than… ### NVIDIA — Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T15:00:19+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: AI platform - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-rubin-nvl72-efficiency-ai-agents/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4370-up-to-30x-more-work-per-watt-nvidia-vera-rubin-nvl72-sets-a-new-efficiency NVIDIA announces measured performance data for Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, showing up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt than GB300 NVL72 on agentic workloads and up to 35x lower cost per million… ### OpenAI — Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-24T12:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-in-kiro - Record: https://forck.live/items/4385-advancing-price-performance-for-developers-with-gpt-5-6-in-kiro GPT-5.6 is now available in Kiro, offering better price-performance for developers to plan, build, review, and test software. ### Mistral AI — Mistral x HUMAIN - Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Subject: Mistral / Le Chat - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-humain - Record: https://forck.live/items/4380-mistral-x-humain Mistral AI and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, focusing on AI infrastructure, model development, and local deployment in areas… ### Amazon — Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T17:06:17+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agentic-data-operations-platform-adop-data-engineering-into-hours/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4313-agentic-data-operations-platform-adop-data-engineering-into-hours Amazon announced the Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP), a reference architecture on AWS that uses AI agents to accelerate data engineering from weeks to hours. ### Amazon — Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T17:02:35+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/govern-ai-agent-tool-access-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-gateway/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4314-govern-ai-agent-tool-access-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-gateway Amazon announces Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a managed service capability for governing AI agent tool access with authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement. ### Google Research — An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-21T17:02:24+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/an-ai-tool-for-prioritizing-candidate-biomarkers-from-wearable-sensor-data/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4312-an-ai-tool-for-prioritizing-candidate-biomarkers-from-wearable-sensor-data Google Research introduces the Biomarker Discovery Framework, a multi-agent system that prioritizes candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data through iterative hypothesis generation, statistical… ### Amazon — Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T16:59:15+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/reduce-rag-costs-on-amazon-bedrock-with-query-aware-compression/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4315-reduce-rag-costs-on-amazon-bedrock-with-query-aware-compression Amazon Bedrock introduces a query-aware compression pattern for RAG: a smaller, lower-cost model filters retrieved chunks against the user's query before the primary model generates the answer,… ### Amazon — Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T16:57:01+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerating-aircraft-ifec-diagnostics-with-agentic-ai-on-aws/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4316-accelerating-aircraft-ifec-diagnostics-with-agentic-ai-on-aws The post describes how Panasonic Avionics Corporation built an agentic AI system on AWS to accelerate IFEC diagnostics, using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue. ### GitHub — The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T16:07:15+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack - Record: https://forck.live/items/4310-the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack GitHub announces a public preview of the new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack, which brings agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack. ### GitHub — Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-21T16:03:36+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-shared-agentic-work-with-github-copilot-in-microsoft-teams - Record: https://forck.live/items/4311-shared-agentic-work-with-github-copilot-in-microsoft-teams GitHub announces a public preview of shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams, allowing users to start collaborative agent sessions, create code channels, and manage tasks… ### Google DeepMind — What does “full-stack” AI actually mean? - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-21T16:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/what-full-stack-development-means/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4309-what-does-full-stack-ai-actually-mean Google DeepMind published a blog post explaining the concept of full-stack AI, featuring an interview with engineering lead Paige Bailey who breaks down the layers of infrastructure, security,… ### Google DeepMind — From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-21T11:59:48+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4243-from-atari-to-eve-online-building-on-15-years-of-ai-research-in-games Google DeepMind announced SIMA 2, an agent that plays, reasons, and learns with users in virtual 3D worlds, as part of their research. ### Google Research — How mobility gives language models a deeper understanding of place - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-21T10:54:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/how-mobility-gives-language-models-a-deeper-understanding-of-place/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4318-how-mobility-gives-language-models-a-deeper-understanding-of-place Google Research introduces a dynamic, mobility-informed framework called Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs) that enriches language model place representations by incorporating aggregated and anonymized… ### Google Antigravity — Antigravity Anywhere with Remote Control - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-21T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/remote-control-for-antigravity - Record: https://forck.live/items/4542-antigravity-anywhere-with-remote-control Antigravity announces a remote control feature that lets users connect to and drive their Antigravity sessions from any machine with a web browser, enabling multi-instance management, untethered… ### Hugging Face — How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/pwc-search - Record: https://forck.live/items/4395-how-hugging-face-inference-endpoints-jobs-and-buckets-power-search-on-papers Hugging Face describes how they use Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Storage Buckets to build a hybrid search system for Papers with Code, using the Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B model for embeddings. ### xAI — Grok 4.6 on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-vertex-ai - Record: https://forck.live/items/4381-grok-4-6-on-gemini-enterprise-agent-platform Grok 4.6 is now available on Google Enterprise Agent Platform via Model Garden, with a 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts. ### xAI — Grok 4.6 on Google Enterprise Agent Platform - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-vertex-ai - Record: https://forck.live/items/4343-grok-4-6-on-google-enterprise-agent-platform xAI announces that Grok 4.6 is now available on Google Enterprise Agent Platform via Model Garden, with a 500k context window, configurable reasoning efforts, and per-token pricing for input, cached… ### xAI — Grok Bot is now included with more plans - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-more-plans - Record: https://forck.live/items/4342-grok-bot-is-now-included-with-more-plans Grok Bot is now included with SuperGrok Plus, SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and all Cursor Teams plans (Standard and Premium). ### Together AI — GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/glm-5-3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4332-glm-5-3-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing Together AI compares GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE, finding near-identical pass@1 accuracy but GLM-5.3 dominating cost and multi-attempt metrics. ### Together AI — GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/glm-5-3-vs-gpt-5-6-sol-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4331-glm-5-3-vs-gpt-5-6-sol-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing Together AI compares GLM-5.3 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the DeepSWE benchmark, showing that a cascade strategy (use GLM-5.3 first, escalate to Sol on failure) solves 85.9% of tasks at a lower cost than using… ### Hugging Face — Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/asr-benchmark-optimization - Record: https://forck.live/items/4244-measuring-benchmark-optimization-in-speech-recognition Hugging Face introduced held-out sets in three speech recognition leaderboards to better measure real-world performance and address benchmark optimization. ### Amazon — Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T21:46:03+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4288-introducing-cross-region-inference-for-openai-gpt-5-6-models-on-amazon-bedrock Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models with cross-Region inference, supporting three variants (Sol, Terra, Luna) via geographic and global inference profiles to improve throughput and… ### Amazon — Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 2: Data preparation and model building with Amazon SageMaker Canvas - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T21:23:29+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-no-code-ml-workflow-with-snowflake-amazon-sagemaker-canvas-and-amazon-quick-part-2-data-preparation-and-model-building-with-amazon-sagemaker-canvas/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4290-build-a-no-code-ml-workflow-with-snowflake-amazon-sagemaker-canvas-and-amazon Amazon announces a no-code ML workflow integrating Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas, and Amazon Quick, with a focus on data preparation and model building using SageMaker Canvas and the XGBoost… ### Amazon — Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 3: Visualizing insights with Amazon Quick Sight - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T21:23:23+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-no-code-ml-workflow-with-snowflake-amazon-sagemaker-canvas-and-amazon-quick-part-3-visualizing-insights-with-amazon-quick-sight/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4291-build-a-no-code-ml-workflow-with-snowflake-amazon-sagemaker-canvas-and-amazon Amazon announces the integration of Amazon SageMaker Canvas predictions with Amazon Quick Sight (now part of Amazon Quick) to build interactive dashboards for fraud detection, including generative BI… ### Black Forest Labs — FLUX Upscale: 2K and 4K for Video - Company: Black Forest Labs (bfl.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-20T17:21:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: FLUX - Source: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-video-upscale - Record: https://forck.live/items/4226-flux-upscale-2k-and-4k-for-video Black Forest Labs launched FLUX Upscale, a standalone tool and API endpoint that upscales video up to native 4K, fixing imperfections like smudged faces and gridded artifacts. ### Hugging Face — Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:52:57+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm25-dspark - Record: https://forck.live/items/4245-up-to-3-2x-faster-inference-with-lfm2-5-dspark Liquid AI releases DSpark draft model checkpoints for three LFM2.5 family models, providing speculative decoding for faster inference (up to 3.18x throughput improvement on GPU, up to 2.87x… ### Amazon — Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:31:28+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/authoring-dogwood-policies-from-natural-language-in-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4292-authoring-dogwood-policies-from-natural-language-in-amazon-bedrock-agentcore Amazon announced an expansion of the Policy Authoring capability in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, which now allows users to convert natural language policy documents into Dogwood formal specifications… ### Google Antigravity — Introducing IDE Extensions - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:30:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/antigravity-ide-extensions - Record: https://forck.live/items/4544-introducing-ide-extensions Google Antigravity announces IDE extensions for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Zed, and Xcode, enabling developers to access Antigravity's agentic features within their preferred IDEs. ### Google Antigravity — Bringing Antigravity to Gemini Enterprise: Agentic workflows for every developer - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:30:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/antigravity-enterprise - Record: https://forck.live/items/4543-bringing-antigravity-to-gemini-enterprise-agentic-workflows-for-every-developer Google Antigravity is now bundled with Gemini Enterprise subscriptions, providing developers with autonomous agentic capabilities including IDE extensions, sandbox controls, budget caps, and audit… ### Amazon — Scaling agentic AI: Enterprise patterns without vendor lock-in - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:24:12+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/scaling-agentic-ai-enterprise-patterns-without-vendor-lock-in/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4293-scaling-agentic-ai-enterprise-patterns-without-vendor-lock-in This post discusses architectural principles for scaling agentic AI systems in multi-framework, multi-model, multi-provider enterprise environments, emphasizing the separation of control and… ### Amazon — Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:11:18+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/scaling-cloud-migrations-with-agentic-ai-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4294-scaling-cloud-migrations-with-agentic-ai-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore Amazon announces a multi-agent framework on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates cloud migration tasks including discovery, IaC generation, governance, and operations, reducing IaC development… ### Amazon — AWS vector solutions: Build agentic AI where your data lives - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:06:06+00:00 - Category: infrastructure-release - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/aws-vector-solutions-build-agentic-ai-where-your-data-lives/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4295-aws-vector-solutions-build-agentic-ai-where-your-data-lives AWS announces vector solutions including search and retrieval capabilities that can be added to existing AWS data stores (Amazon OpenSearch Service, S3, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache for… ### Microsoft Research — Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT - Company: Microsoft Research (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T16:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Research / Phi - Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/broadening-access-to-skala-creates-a-faster-path-to-predictive-dft/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4240-broadening-access-to-skala-creates-a-faster-path-to-predictive-dft Microsoft Research released Skala-1.1, a deep-learning DFT functional trained on 2.5× more data than the first public version, achieving a weighted average error of 2.8 kcal/mol on GMTKN55. ### Amazon — Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T15:20:03+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-intelligent-security-for-healthcare-apis-with-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4296-build-intelligent-security-for-healthcare-apis-with-amazon-bedrock Amazon Bedrock is used to build intelligent security for healthcare APIs, providing context-aware security monitoring, anomaly detection, data sensitivity classification, and compliance report… ### OpenAI — Introducing Intelligence Age - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T07:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-intelligence-age - Record: https://forck.live/items/4484-introducing-intelligence-age OpenAI announced a new blog called 'Intelligence Age' that will explore how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom. ### OpenAI — Introducing AI Futures - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T07:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-ai-futures - Record: https://forck.live/items/4214-introducing-ai-futures OpenAI announced a new blog called AI Futures that will explore how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom. ### Tencent — How Weixin Mini Games Bring People Together - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T04:05:48+00:00 - Subject: Hunyuan - Source: https://www.tencent.com/how-weixin-mini-games-bring-people-together/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4563-how-weixin-mini-games-bring-people-together Tencent describes how Weixin Mini Games have become a social gaming platform within the Weixin app, with 500 million monthly players, a broad demographic, and a developer ecosystem of small studios. ### Mistral AI — Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems. - Company: Mistral AI (mistral.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Mistral / Le Chat - Source: https://mistral.ai/news/agentic-search - Record: https://forck.live/items/4225-agentic-search-more-accurate-and-efficient-results-from-your-ai-systems Mistral AI announces Agentic Search, a retrieval layer that uses a multi-step search loop to improve accuracy and efficiency when navigating complex documents, reducing latency and token consumption… ### OpenAI — Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/stampli - Record: https://forck.live/items/4215-stampli-cuts-launch-hours-by-68-using-chatgpt-work Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to reduce launch production time from weeks to days. ### Amazon — Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T22:13:20+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/domain-and-publish-date-filters-for-web-search-on-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4297-domain-and-publish-date-filters-for-web-search-on-agentcore Amazon announces runtime domain and published-date filtering for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, shipping in web-search connector version 1.2.0. ### Amazon — Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T22:09:56+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/automate-document-processing-with-quick-automate-and-the-idp-accelerator/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4298-automate-document-processing-with-quick-automate-and-the-idp-accelerator Amazon announces two AWS solutions, the GAIIC IDP Accelerator and Quick Automate, that together automate document processing for mortgage lending and other industries. ### Amazon — Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T22:06:09+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/asynchronous-patterns-for-calling-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-agents-in-serverless-pipelines/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4299-asynchronous-patterns-for-calling-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-agents-in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building, connecting, and optimizing agents at scale with any framework or model. ### Amazon — How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T20:40:45+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-fanatics-betting-and-gaming-built-a-multi-agent-customer-support-system/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4300-how-fanatics-betting-and-gaming-built-a-multi-agent-customer-support-system Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS using Amazon Bedrock. The system includes a Responsible Gaming classification agent powered by Amazon Nova 2 Lite and a… ### Amazon — KnowledgeForge: mining gold from the ITSM ticket graveyard - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T20:36:50+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/knowledgeforge-mining-gold-from-the-itsm-ticket-graveyard/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4301-knowledgeforge-mining-gold-from-the-itsm-ticket-graveyard Amazon introduced KnowledgeForge, a system that mines resolved ITSM incident tickets to generate and curate knowledge base articles using generative AI and RAG, running on AWS infrastructure… ### OpenAI — Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T19:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models - Record: https://forck.live/items/4216-offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models OpenAI reaffirms zero data retention policy for eligible API customers and previews a new private safety processing feature for advanced AI safety that maintains data privacy. ### Perplexity — Prompt caching for presets - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-19T17:39:11+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5057-prompt-caching-for-presets Agent API presets now automatically use stable prompt cache keys, allowing reuse of shared prompt prefix across requests, which can reduce costs by about 5%. ### OpenAI — Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T07:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/replit - Record: https://forck.live/items/4217-replit-expands-access-to-software-creation-with-gpt-5-6-luna Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, to allow anyone to create software without worrying about token costs. ### Perplexity — Fast preset updated - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-19T00:47:28+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5058-fast-preset-updated The Agent API's 'fast' preset now uses the openai/gpt-5.6-luna model with minimal reasoning effort and priority processing. ### xAI — Grok Build on web and mobile - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-build-for-everyone - Record: https://forck.live/items/4345-grok-build-on-web-and-mobile Grok Build, previously an Early Beta limited to SuperGrok Heavy, is now available on every plan, on the web, iOS, and Android. ### xAI — Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock - Record: https://forck.live/items/4344-grok-4-6-on-amazon-bedrock Grok 4.6 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with a 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts, at the stated pricing per million tokens. ### Cohere — The Culture Funnel: You can’t align what isn’t in the data - Company: Cohere (cohere.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Command - Source: https://cohere.com/blog/the-culture-funnel-you-cant-align-what-isnt-in-the-data - Record: https://forck.live/items/4228-the-culture-funnel-you-can-t-align-what-isn-t-in-the-data Cohere's analysis of LLM training data reveals a 'culture funnel' where cultural diversity narrows from pretraining to post-training, as post-training datasets focus more on technical tasks and lose… ### Cursor — Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements - Company: Cursor (cursor.com) - Announced: 2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Cursor - Source: https://cursor.com/changelog/08-19-26 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4227-cloud-agents-and-cursor-harness-improvements Cursor released improvements to cloud agents, including subscriptions to events (PRs, Slack, scheduled tasks), custom modes, subagents on their own VMs, a /goal command for long-lived objectives, and… ### GitHub — Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T23:33:07+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-18-enterprise-managed-settings-in-github-copilot-for-jetbrains - Record: https://forck.live/items/4286-enterprise-managed-settings-in-github-copilot-for-jetbrains GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings, enabling administrators to enforce consistent controls for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission… ### OpenAI — ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T22:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-ads-expands-across-europe - Record: https://forck.live/items/4218-chatgpt-ads-expands-across-europe OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets, allowing advertisers to reach users during exploration and decision-making processes. ### OpenAI — Strengthening democratic oversight in national security - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T19:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/strengthening-democratic-oversight-in-national-security - Record: https://forck.live/items/4219-strengthening-democratic-oversight-in-national-security OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, providing tools, training, and expertise to government institutions. ### Amazon — Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T18:56:14+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-is-now-generally-available-enabling-agents-to-transact-safely-and-autonomously-at-scale/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4302-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-is-now-generally-available-enabling-agents Amazon announced the general availability of AgentCore payments, a service that enables agents to autonomously pay for APIs, MCPs, and content, with integrations with Coinbase and Stripe wallets. ### Hugging Face — How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-18T18:09:38+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/altk-evolve-hmm - Record: https://forck.live/items/4246-how-much-memory-does-your-agent-actually-need ALTK-Evolve is a method for agentic memory that distills guidelines from an agent's past trajectories and injects them at inference time without weight updates. ### Amazon — Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T17:13:13+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/customize-amazon-quick-embedded-chat-into-your-application/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4303-customize-amazon-quick-embedded-chat-into-your-application This post describes how to customize Amazon QuickSight embedded chat with visual theming (container CSS, SDK frame options, brand removal) and chat persona/tone configuration to match an… ### Amazon — Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T17:10:37+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/implement-vector-prompt-document-classification-using-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4304-implement-vector-prompt-document-classification-using-amazon-bedrock Amazon Bedrock is used in a multi-agent document classification solution that combines Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 for textual reasoning and Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1 for visual pattern… ### Amazon — Improve contract search accuracy with auto-generated filters in Amazon Bedrock - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T17:02:52+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/improve-contract-search-accuracy-with-auto-generated-filters-in-amazon-bedrock/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4306-improve-contract-search-accuracy-with-auto-generated-filters-in-amazon-bedrock Amazon introduced AI-Driven Annotation (AIDA) solution on Amazon Bedrock to improve contract search accuracy using implicit and explicit filtering with metadata-enriched chunking. ### Amazon — How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T16:27:07+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-axonius-built-secure-multi-tenant-ai-agents-on-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4307-how-axonius-built-secure-multi-tenant-ai-agents-on-bedrock-agentcore Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore using a silo deployment model. ### OpenAI — Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T11:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teens - Record: https://forck.live/items/4222-introducing-chatgpt-for-teens-built-for-learning-backed-by-protections OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with enhanced safety protections, healthy-use features, and parental controls. ### OpenAI — Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T11:00:00+00:00 - Category: safety-policy-update - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities - Record: https://forck.live/items/4221-pacing-model-development-in-an-era-of-cyber-critical-capabilities OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models, with new safeguards guiding the pace of model development. ### OpenAI — Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T11:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/partnering-with-codeai - Record: https://forck.live/items/4220-partnering-with-codeai-to-prepare-the-first-ai-generation OpenAI announces a partnership with CodeAI to improve AI literacy among students. ### Tencent — Tencent Kicks Off 2027 Global Campus Recruitment Program - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T10:35:22+00:00 - Subject: Hunyuan - Source: https://www.tencent.com/tencent-kicks-off-2027-global-campus-recruitment-program/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4564-tencent-kicks-off-2027-global-campus-recruitment-program Tencent announces a global campus recruitment program for 2027, which is not related to an AI product or model announcement. ### OpenAI — Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T07:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/asana - Record: https://forck.live/items/4224-asana-cleared-5-years-of-engineering-work-in-2-weeks-with-codex Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K. ### Z.ai — GLM-5.3 - Company: Z.ai (z.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: GLM - Source: https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released#2026-08-18 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4446-glm-5-3 Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, an update to its model series, with improved coding capabilities (50% gain over GLM-5.2 on Z.ai Code Bench) and emergent cybersecurity capabilities matching Mythos 5 in… ### Hugging Face — Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/multi-vector-encoder - Record: https://forck.live/items/4247-multi-vector-late-interaction-embedding-models-with-sentence-transformers Sentence Transformers library version 6.0 introduces a new model type called MultiVectorEncoder, which implements ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval. ### OpenAI — How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/nvidia/chatgpt-work - Record: https://forck.live/items/4223-how-nvidia-scales-expertise-with-chatgpt-work OpenAI announces that NVIDIA teams are using ChatGPT Work to reduce manual work, connect signals, and scale workflows globally. ### Together AI — DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-vs-gpt-5-6-sol-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4158-deepseek-v4-pro-0813-vs-gpt-5-6-sol-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing The post compares DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the DeepSWE benchmark. GPT-5.6 Sol has higher single-shot accuracy (72.7% pass@1 vs 62.8%) but is 35x more expensive ($8.37 per rollout vs… ### Hugging Face — Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-17T19:46:21+00:00 - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/gpu-management-pt2 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4156-same-cluster-33-points-more-utilization-what-changed-was-the-order Hugging Face blog post describes a constraint-aware GPU allocator that improves GPU utilization by up to 33 percentage points and priority-weighted output by up to 105% compared to FIFO scheduling. ### Amazon — NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T18:06:33+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4161-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. It is an open model with a hybrid MoE architecture (30B total, 3B active), offering up to 4x higher throughput and 30%… ### Amazon — Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T16:19:56+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-openclaw-agents-that-transact-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4162-build-openclaw-agents-that-transact-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments integrates with OpenClaw agents to enable programmatic, bounded payments for autonomous agents, using wallet providers like Coinbase or Stripe Privy and protocols… ### Microsoft — Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms - Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Subject: Azure AI - Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-native-application-platforms/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4165-microsoft-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-native Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, marking its third consecutive year in this position. ### NVIDIA — Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T12:34:51+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Subject: AI platform - Coverage: Covered by 29 outlets - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/securing-the-infrastructure-of-intelligence/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4154-securing-the-infrastructure-of-intelligence NVIDIA announces a partnership with SB Energy to secure LPS (land, power, shell) capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio, where NVIDIA compute will be hosted and OpenAI will be the… ### Google Research — Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2026-08-17T10:34:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Research - Source: https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4153-seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery Google Research introduces PhotoScan, a deep learning framework that estimates body composition metrics (body fat percentage, A/G ratio, V/S ratio) from standard 2D smartphone photos, achieving… ### OpenAI — The Defender’s Window - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T05:30:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/the-defenders-window - Record: https://forck.live/items/4141-the-defender-s-window OpenAI discusses the cybersecurity threat from AI models and its own defensive measures, including the use of GPT-5.6 Sol and ChatGPT Work for security assessments and fixes. ### OpenAI — OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T05:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-joins-ports-pike-project - Record: https://forck.live/items/4142-openai-joins-ports-pike-project OpenAI announces its participation in the PORTS-Pike project in Pike County, Ohio, including a partnership with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a data center expected… ### OpenAI — New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T03:15:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/new-policy-ideas-for-the-intelligence-age - Record: https://forck.live/items/4143-new-policy-ideas-for-the-intelligence-age OpenAI is awarding $1 million in grants plus up to $1 million in API credits to 14 independent projects focused on economic opportunity and societal resilience related to AI advances, following a… ### Tencent — Tencent Releases Its Carbon Neutrality Mid-Term Report - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T02:11:47+00:00 - Subject: Hunyuan - Source: https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-its-carbon-neutrality-mid-term-report/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4565-tencent-releases-its-carbon-neutrality-mid-term-report Tencent announced the release of its Carbon Neutrality Mid-Term Report. ### Tencent — Tencent Details Progress Toward Carbon Neutrality Goals and Outlines AI-Era Priorities - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T00:58:33+00:00 - Subject: Hunyuan - Source: https://www.tencent.com/tencent-details-progress-toward-carbon-neutrality-goals-and-outlines-ai-era-priorities/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4566-tencent-details-progress-toward-carbon-neutrality-goals-and-outlines-ai-era The source text is Tencent's Carbon Neutrality Mid-Term Report, which discusses progress toward carbon neutrality and the role of AI in supporting lower-carbon growth. ### Cursor — Origin Code Hosting - Company: Cursor (cursor.com) - Announced: 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Cursor - Coverage: Covered by 8 outlets - Source: https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting - Record: https://forck.live/items/4166-origin-code-hosting Cursor announces Origin, a new code hosting feature in early beta for paid plan users, allowing them to create and host repos, sync GitHub repos, manage pull requests, and integrate with apps like… ### Together AI — A/B test models in production - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/a-b-test-models-in-production - Record: https://forck.live/items/4160-a-b-test-models-in-production Together AI introduces native A/B testing for LLM endpoints, allowing traffic splits between a control and up to 20 variants with fixed percentages, etag-guarded updates, and blue-green promotion. ### Together AI — DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing - Company: Together AI (together.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Inference platform - Source: https://www.together.ai/blog/deepseek-v4-pro-0813-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing - Record: https://forck.live/items/4159-deepseek-v4-pro-0813-vs-claude-fable-5-on-deepswe-cost-coding-and-routing The blog post compares DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5 on the DeepSWE benchmark, finding that DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is 90x cheaper and achieves comparable or better performance with multiple… ### Perplexity — Gemini 3.7 Flash - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-15T17:59:56+00:00 - Category: api-release - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5059-gemini-3-7-flash Perplexity's Agent API and Router API now support the google/gemini-3.7-flash model at the stated launch pricing. ### NVIDIA — Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T17:13:05+00:00 - Subject: AI platform - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ugm-indosat-nvidia-ai-technology-center/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4155-universitas-gadjah-mada-indosat-and-nvidia-open-indonesia-s-first-university Indonesia launched its first university-based AI center, UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center, powered by NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform and Indosat's GPU Merdeka, to develop local AI talent and… ### GitHub — Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T16:17:46+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-14-grok-4-6-is-now-available-in-github-copilot - Record: https://forck.live/items/4168-grok-4-6-is-now-available-in-github-copilot xAI's Grok 4.6 reasoning model is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with strong results in terminal-based coding tasks. ### Amazon — Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T16:02:10+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/custom-reward-functions-for-multi-turn-reinforcement-learning-with-amazon-nova-forge/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4163-custom-reward-functions-for-multi-turn-reinforcement-learning-with-amazon-nova Amazon announces custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge, including a serverless multi-turn RL option now generally available, and describes how to design… ### Amazon — Building agentic workflows with SageMaker AI and Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T15:58:44+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-agentic-workflows-with-sagemaker-ai-and-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4164-building-agentic-workflows-with-sagemaker-ai-and-bedrock-agentcore Amazon shows how to combine OpenAI-compatible endpoints on SageMaker AI with Bedrock AgentCore runtime to build multi-agent workflows, using Qwen 3.5 9B, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Sonnet 4.6. ### Tencent — Reinventing a Critical Chemical — Without Relying on Fossil Fuels - Company: Tencent (tencent.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T04:30:54+00:00 - Subject: Hunyuan - Source: https://www.tencent.com/reinventing-a-critical-chemical-without-relying-on-fossil-fuels/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4567-reinventing-a-critical-chemical-without-relying-on-fossil-fuels Tencent's CarbonX program supports CERT Systems, which uses Direct CO2 Electrolysis to convert captured carbon dioxide, water, and clean electricity into ethylene, aiming to replace fossil-fuel-based… ### GitHub — GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 10 - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T03:15:56+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-13-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-10 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4169-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-10 GitHub Copilot weekly updates include new models (Kimi K3 and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash), general availability of Agent Plugins 1.0, improved plugin management, side chat for agent questions, subagent… ### LG AI Research — [ACL 2026] From Documents to Segments: Rethinking Topic Modeling Through Segment-Based Topic Assignment - Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: EXAONE - Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=674 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4737-acl-2026-from-documents-to-segments-rethinking-topic-modeling-through-segment LG AI Research introduces Segment-based Topic Allocation (SBTA), a method that assigns text segments to topics rather than entire documents, reducing topic contamination. ### xAI — Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot - Company: xAI (x.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Grok - Source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-github-copilot - Record: https://forck.live/items/4346-grok-4-6-in-github-copilot Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot, with API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. ### Anthropic — How Claude’s text watermark works - Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com) - Announced: 2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Claude - Coverage: Covered by 23 outlets - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark - Record: https://forck.live/items/4170-how-claude-s-text-watermark-works Anthropic announces that future Claude models will include a text watermark to comply with the EU AI Act, using a method based on SynthID-Text that does not affect output quality, readability, or… ### Hugging Face — State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Platform - Coverage: Covered by 10 outlets - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/4157-state-of-open-models-summer-2026-observations In the Hugging Face Hub, the top 25 models by downloads and the top 25 by likes share only one repository, indicating that attention (likes) and adoption (downloads) measure different things. ### Hugging Face — Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-13T17:16:04+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/amazon/strands-lerobot-streaming-data-loop - Record: https://forck.live/items/3740-record-train-and-deploy-from-one-place-with-strands-agents-lerobot-and-hugging The article describes a new streaming data loop feature in Strands Robots that allows recording robot demonstrations, training on them by streaming directly from Hugging Face Hub, and deploying the… ### Google DeepMind — Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-13T17:04:18+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3727-introducing-gemini-3-7-flash Google DeepMind announces Gemini 3.7 Flash, an improved workhorse model for coding and agents, with better performance on benchmarks like FrontierCode 1.1 Main (43.6% vs 34.4%) and DeepSWE v1.1… ### Amazon — Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T16:02:10+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/monitor-on-premises-and-multi-cloud-ai-agents-with-agentcore-observability/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3748-monitor-on-premises-and-multi-cloud-ai-agents-with-agentcore-observability When you deploy AI agents built with frameworks like Strands Agents, LangGraph, and CrewAI, you need observability into their performance. ### Amazon — Automate legacy web applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T15:56:07+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/automate-legacy-web-applications-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-browser-tool/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3749-automate-legacy-web-applications-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-browser-tool Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool is a fully managed, cloud-based browser service that enables AI agents to automate legacy web applications through secure, isolated sessions, integrating with… ### Amazon — Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T15:52:44+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/accelerating-ma-due-diligence-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3750-accelerating-m-a-due-diligence-with-amazon-bedrock-agentcore Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building, connecting, and optimizing AI agents at scale, supporting any framework or model. ### Amazon — Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T15:48:15+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-quick-for-microsoft-365-agentic-ai-where-you-work/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3751-amazon-quick-for-microsoft-365-agentic-ai-where-you-work Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365 extensions bring agentic AI capabilities directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, allowing users to access connected data and perform document editing… ### GitHub — Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T14:00:53+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot - Record: https://forck.live/items/3769-gemini-3-7-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot bringing improvements in web and app development, agentic coding workflows, code quality, and more. ### Google DeepMind — Omni experts share what excites them most about the model. - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-13T13:30:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-experts-roundtable/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3729-omni-experts-share-what-excites-them-most-about-the-model Google DeepMind announced Gemini Omni, a multimodal model, with its first release Gemini Omni Flash focused on video generation and editing via conversational interaction. ### OpenAI — The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6 - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T11:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Source: https://openai.com/index/builders-guide-to-gpt-5-6 - Record: https://forck.live/items/3698-the-builder-s-guide-to-gpt-5-6 Announcement of a guide for developers on using GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities. ### OpenAI — Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 17 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/previewing-ultrafast - Record: https://forck.live/items/3699-previewing-ultrafast-mode-gpt-5-6-sol-at-up-to-14x-the-speed OpenAI previews Ultrafast, a new API service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that offers up to 14× faster inference and up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware. ### OpenAI — OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T09:00:00+00:00 - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API - Coverage: Covered by 9 outlets - Source: https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer - Record: https://forck.live/items/3700-openai-appoints-dali-rajic-as-chief-revenue-officer OpenAI announces the appointment of Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer, leading its global revenue organization. ### Google Antigravity — Gemini 3.7 Flash in Google Antigravity - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-13T08:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-3-7-flash-in-google-antigravity - Record: https://forck.live/items/4545-gemini-3-7-flash-in-google-antigravity Google Antigravity introduces Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new model for coding and agents with improved performance and introductory pricing at half the cost of 3.6 Flash. ### Perplexity — Grok 4.6 - Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai) - Announced: 2026-08-13T00:04:31+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Sonar - Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#august-2026 - Record: https://forck.live/items/5060-grok-4-6 Perplexity's Agent API now supports xai/grok-4.6, xAI's latest flagship reasoning and agentic model. ### MiniMax — MiniMax Music 3.0: Next-Generation Open-Weights, Production-Ready & Versatile Music Model - Company: MiniMax (minimax.io) - Announced: 2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: MiniMax models - Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile-music-model - Record: https://forck.live/items/3911-minimax-music-3-0-next-generation-open-weights-production-ready-versatile MiniMax introduces Music 3.0, a next-generation music generation model that composes, arranges, performs, and produces a complete song from a creative concept and optional lyrics in a single… ### Cursor — Cloud Agents Start 3x Faster with Builds - Company: Cursor (cursor.com) - Announced: 2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: product-launch - Subject: Cursor - Source: https://cursor.com/changelog/08-13-26 - Record: https://forck.live/items/3766-cloud-agents-start-3x-faster-with-builds Cursor introduces Builds for Cloud Agents, providing pre-built environments that agents boot into instead of setting up from scratch each session, resulting in 3x faster time to first token and… ### Hugging Face — What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/icml-2026-open-reproductions - Record: https://forck.live/items/3741-what-we-learned-by-reproducing-2-200-papers-from-icml Hugging Face reports on a community hackathon that reproduced 2,226 papers from ICML 2026 using coding agents, finding 51% of examined papers had at least one verified claim and 23% had at least one… ### GitHub — Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app - Company: GitHub (github.com) - Announced: 2026-08-12T18:39:11+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Copilot - Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-12-agent-plugins-1-0-in-vs-code-copilot-cli-and-the-copilot-app - Record: https://forck.live/items/3770-agent-plugins-1-0-in-vs-code-copilot-cli-and-the-copilot-app GitHub announced Agent Plugins 1.0, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into one installable plugin, with support across VS Code, Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the… ### Amazon — Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS - Company: Amazon (amazon.com) - Announced: 2026-08-12T17:45:20+00:00 - Subject: Bedrock / Nova - Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/part-2-amazon-bedrock-cost-attribution-with-amazon-athena-and-cudos/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3752-part-2-amazon-bedrock-cost-attribution-with-amazon-athena-and-cudos Amazon Bedrock now supports granular cost attribution via CUR 2.0 with IAM principal data, enabling per-user and per-application cost tracking through Amazon Athena queries and CUDOS dashboards. ### Hugging Face — Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-12T16:14:36+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/allenai/olmoearth-embeddings - Record: https://forck.live/items/3742-introducing-olmoearth-embeddings-custom-embedding-exports-from-olmoearth OlmoEarth Studio now supports custom embedding exports, allowing users to compute and download embedding vectors from OlmoEarth foundation models for downstream tasks like similarity search and… ### Microsoft Research — MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities - Company: Microsoft Research (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-12T16:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Research / Phi - Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mindtopo-reveals-vlms-spatial-reasoning-abilities/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3764-mindtopo-reveals-vlms-spatial-reasoning-abilities MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as connectivity, enclosure, order, separation, and knots. ### Microsoft — The Economics of Agent Optimization: From pilots to measurable returns - Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com) - Announced: 2026-08-12T16:00:00+00:00 - Subject: Azure AI - Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-economics-of-agent-optimization-from-pilots-to-measurable-returns/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3763-the-economics-of-agent-optimization-from-pilots-to-measurable-returns Microsoft announces a four-part blog series on optimizing AI agent costs using Microsoft Foundry, focusing on financial discipline and managed investment. ### Google Antigravity — Introducing Custom Agents - Company: Google Antigravity (antigravity.google) - Announced: 2026-08-12T14:25:00+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Subject: Antigravity - Source: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-custom-agents - Record: https://forck.live/items/4546-introducing-custom-agents Google Antigravity announces Custom Agents, a new feature for Antigravity 2.0 and the CLI that allows users to create specialized, file-based agent configurations with scoped instructions, tools, and… ### Google DeepMind — Putting sign language AI into users’ hands - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2026-08-12T14:01:59+00:00 - Category: model-update - Subject: Gemini - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3728-putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands Google DeepMind announced SL2T, a massively multilingual sign-language-to-text translation model, and its integration into Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 for ASL-to-English dictation, with… ### Hugging Face — LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2026-08-12T14:00:51+00:00 - Subject: Platform - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm2-5-vl-3b - Record: https://forck.live/items/3743-lfm2-5-vl-3b-for-better-and-faster-vision-capabilities-for-the-edge LFM2.5-VL-3B is our most capable vision-language model you can run on your own hardware. It understands documents and screens alike, grounds objects, and can call tools. ### NVIDIA — NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs - Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com) - Announced: 2026-08-12T14:00:00+00:00 - Subject: AI platform - Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-life-glassdoor-best-ceo-2026/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/3735-nvidia-ceo-tops-glassdoor-s-2026-list-of-best-ceos NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor's 2026 Best CEOs list, with 99% employee approval.