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September 1, 2026

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GitHub Copilot Code Review can now approve pull requests automatically

GitHub has launched a feature in public preview that allows Copilot Code Review to approve pull requests automatically. It is disabled by default and can be enabled at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.

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Google DeepMind: Gemini 4 model is in the fine-tuning phase, release planned earlier than end of year

Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said that the Gemini 4 model is in the fine-tuning phase and the company plans to release it much earlier than by the end of the year. He previously said that leadership in frontier AI is the company's sole priority; the Gemini 3.5 Pro model, despite being announced, was never released.

New: Gemini 3.5 Pro was never released, even though it was announced in May 2026; the project missed 3 deadlines; Demis Hassabis stepped down from leading Google DeepMind in August 2026; Kavukcuoglu replaced him; Kavukcuoglu explicitly rejects AGI as a priority, calling it 'not the right conversation'; Google DeepMind operates under competitive pressure as a 'Gemini factory' (a model-production facility); Gemini 4 is in the 'early phase of post-training', with release planned 'much earlier' than by the end of the year

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Startup Fambot launches an AI assistant for managing family administration

Startup Fambot has launched a beta version of an AI “chief of staff” assistant for families that connects email, a calendar and WhatsApp groups and offers a daily overview of tasks. The company raised 3.5 million dollars in pre-seed funding, and the app is currently free for iOS, Android and the web.

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Art project unveiled clothing that fools person detection in YOLO algorithms

Artist Simon Weckert designed a shirt with a “digital camouflage” pattern that suppresses person recognition by cameras using YOLO detection algorithms, in response to the deployment of AI surveillance cameras by Berlin police.

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Anthropic has mandated 30-day data retention for Claude Fable 5 models

According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5 models require data retention of at least 30 days in the API; zero retention is not available without explicit approval from Anthropic. The same rule also applies to other models that are not specified further.

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AWS released a guide to connecting an MCP server in AgentCore Runtime to Amazon Quick

AWS described how to deploy an MCP server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and connect it to Amazon Quick through AgentCore Gateway; Amazon Cognito handles user authentication, while AgentCore Identity with OAuth 2.0 handles communication between services.