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Google announced on October 30, 2026 that it plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt, giving website owners a single way to express training preferences across multiple AI providers. The commitment arrived alongside same-day announcements from Microsoft and Op

Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has held flat at around 223,000 since 2022 even as it plans to spend about $170 billion on AI infrastruc

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft pledge to support a new common signal for robots.txt that blocks scraping for AI training.

Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help track deforestation under EU rules, but it identifies only abo

OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At $1.25 trillion, the valuation falls short of expectations, and major investors appear to be pulling back amid the recent tech sell-off. Meanwhile, rival Anthro

This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform defaults, and operate a review cadence. Written for FinOps and platform engineering teams.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that keeps a Vite website running in its session, then watch the

Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference...

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active exceptions by 75%, improved time-to-cash by four weeks, and unlocked $10 million in free cash

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed device policy, a named AWS profile, and

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces...

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path...

While science fiction lore tells us that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses

Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any circumstances. The post From synthetic enterprise data

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.