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Four consumers filed a class-action complaint in federal court in San Francisco on September 18, 2026, accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of agreeing among themselves to slow the pace at which their competing frontier AI products improve, in...

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

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Anthropic said on September 18, 2026 that it is partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI, with each company expecting to invest at least $1 billion in building capacity in the area over the next five years....

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Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

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Ben Bernstein, Manager of Cybersecurity Advisors at Huntress, is a cybersecurity professional with more than a decade of experience spanning technical support, systems administration, client success, technical account management, and security advisory leadership. He began his career in hands-on...

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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on September 18, 2026 unveiled Virginia's Data Center Accountability Framework and signed Executive Order 22, a package of immediate state directives on data center transparency, environmental review, and energy costs that also establishes a rapid-response...

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xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its latest speech-to-text model, on September 18, 2026, holding batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio while describing the model as twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0. Grok Voice Transcribe...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18, 2026, directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of California's new independent AI oversight laws and ordering the development of recommendations that include requiring a "kill switch" for frontier...

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, an open-weight model its developer describes as the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters, became available on Amazon Bedrock on September 18, 2026, adding a new option for coding and knowledge work. Amazon...

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

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The Walt Disney Company announced on September 18, 2026 that Karandeep Anand, most recently the chief executive of Character.AI, will join the company as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, a newly created position, effective October 2,...

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

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Amazon Web Services announced the new AgentCore runtime on September 18, 2026, a reworked version of the managed compute layer in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that the company says reclaims memory as agent sessions release it and delivers consistent cold...

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

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Today we are announcing the new AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore built for the speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency that production agents demand. It reclaims memory as sessions release it and delivers consistent cold starts regardless...

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

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A Seagate study finds that 99% of IT leaders expect AI to drive increased data storage needs, but only 38% are prepared to meet them, revealing a significant readiness gap.

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The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

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Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

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