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A community post shows Qwen Image 2.1 in a Fast FP8 build generating high quality images. The user runs it on Unsloth Studio and notes an update is needed to see the option.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, which it says improve across the board including writing. It also permanently reduced API prices by 50% for both models.
Anthropic launched Opus 5.5 with 20% higher 5-hour session limits for Claude Code. Pro, Max and Team users received a banked usage reset they can apply from Settings until October 22.
AWS published a post on combining Amazon Bedrock Data Automation with the Model Context Protocol to structure unstructured public sector evidence. The structured insights are surfaced through natural language queries in Salesforce Agentforce.
Posit's data science IDE Positron now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. The post demonstrates exploring an Athena table, validating features in R, training an XGBoost model in Python, deploying a real-time SageMaker AI endpoint, and reporting with Quarto in a SageMaker Studio Space.
Benchling built a defense-in-depth security architecture to run untrusted AI agent-generated scientific code across thousands of life sciences tenants using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter in VPC mode. It combines Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and VPC endpoint policies to block data exfiltration,…
Nvidia hosted a reception at the Grand Egyptian Museum for Egypt's AI builders, including developers, researchers, startups and enterprises. Nvidia VP Paolo Guglielmini gave a keynote on the country's AI ecosystem.
OpenAI added new learning paths to its Academy for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students. The paths are meant to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
A report states that ChatGPT now knows what users do on other websites through an ad collector. The item links to a blog post on buchodi.com.
Accenture is set to become Anthropic's first embedded evaluator, according to TechCrunch coverage. The engagement is described as high-risk consulting work.
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination. Families can share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI manages calendars, fills out forms, makes shopping lists, and plans meals.