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Compliance API in the Claude product has stopped returning file and document names in the Activity Feed

The Compliance API in the Claude product has stopped returning file names, project document names, and artifact titles in the Activity Feed, including retroactively. A name can now only be looked up by ID via a Compliance Access Key with the read:compliance_user_data permission.

Google's Gemini product expands Connected Apps with 14 new partner apps

Google has launched an expansion of Connected Apps in the Gemini product with 14 new partner apps (Airtable, Linear, Adobe, Webflow, Peloton, among others) for productivity, creativity, and lifestyle, controllable via @ mention in chat.

GitHub Copilot app adds local sandboxing in public preview

The GitHub Copilot app offers optional local sandboxing in public preview, which restricts the agent's access to files, network, and credentials. It is disabled by default and configured per project.

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 adds AI-assisted tool approvals and planning mode for the Codex agent

GitHub has released version 1.18.0 of the GitHub Copilot plugin for JetBrains IDEs with automatic approval of low-risk agent actions, the ability to rewrite an earlier message, organizational skills/instructions, and planning mode in the Codex agent.

OpenAI makes GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna available on the Amazon Bedrock platform

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI are now generally available on the Amazon Bedrock platform at lower prices than GPT-5.6; according to OpenAI, GPT-6 Sol makes about half as many factual errors as GPT-5.6 Sol.

Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock with lower costs per task

Anthropic, together with AWS, has made Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock – according to the company, it is more efficient and cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5, with adaptive thinking and stricter safety classifiers.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds evaluators for agents with skills

Amazon Web Services added three evaluators (Skill Selection Accuracy, Skill Instruction Following, SkillInvoked) to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations and the Strands Evals SDK that measure whether an agent selected the right skill and followed its instructions.

The Claude Opus 5.5 model is available in GitHub Copilot

The Claude Opus 5.5 model from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans. According to Anthropic, it handles tasks comparably to Opus 5, but with fewer steps and tokens.

NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS 5.0, a GPU-accelerated framework for robotics with physical AI models

NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS 5.0 – a GPU-accelerated set of packages built on the open-source framework ROS, designed for developing robotic applications with physical AI models capable of perception, reasoning, and action.

Anthropic added the ability to define tools in the system message midway through a conversation to Claude API

Anthropic has made it possible in the beta version of Claude API (header inline-tools-2026-09-15) to define and modify tools directly in the system message midway through a conversation, without having to edit the tools array or invalidate the prompt cache.

Hugging Face introduces native support for the GGUF format in the transformers library for running models locally on Apple Silicon

Hugging Face has added native support to the transformers library for the GGUF format for local inference on Apple Silicon, including quantization levels such as Q4_K_M that shrink models to a fraction of their original size.

xAI made Grok 4.6 available in Amazon Bedrock

Grok 4.6 from xAI has been available in Amazon Bedrock since 18 August 2026, with a context window of 500 thousand tokens and four reasoning effort levels, targeting long-running agents and work with code.

GitHub Copilot makes Grok 4.7 from xAI available

Grok 4.7 from xAI is gradually becoming available in GitHub Copilot for all paid tiers (Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, Enterprise), billed at the provider's list prices.

Higgsfield AI has released new video features for ad creation with the GPT-6 Astra model

Higgsfield AI has released new video features for ad creation built on the GPT-6 Astra model, developed in a single day according to the company and aimed at small businesses. You can find details in the source article.

Hugging Face has released tokenizers v1 with significantly faster text processing

Hugging Face has released the tokenizers v1 release candidate, which, according to the company, is up to ten times faster than v0.23 while preserving the same API, output and vocabulary. The speedup comes from SIMD optimizations, caching recurring words and native parallelism.

AWS summarized 13 new features for Amazon SageMaker Inference, with automated deployment benchmarking as the key addition

AWS summarized 13 new features for Amazon SageMaker Inference released in 2026. The main addition is Inference recommendations – automated selection of an instance and model deployment configuration, which, according to AWS, replaces 2–3 weeks of manual benchmarking.

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GitHub has made improvements to Copilot code review available with clearer summaries and automatic resolution

GitHub has made improvements to Copilot code review available — clearer summaries of findings, smarter automatic resolution of comments, and automatic commit message generation when accepting suggestions. The features are now generally available.

GitHub Copilot introduces three tiers for automatic model selection

GitHub Copilot is adding three tiers to automatic model selection – efficiency, balance and intelligence – for choosing between lower cost/speed and higher quality. They are gradually rolling out to VS Code, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app.

Part of an overview of multiple AI topics; only this event has been covered.

AWS released the Kubernetes addon HyperPod Inference Gateway for GPU-aware routing of LLM inference

AWS introduced Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway, a Kubernetes addon for GPU-aware routing of LLM requests. According to the company, it reduces time to first token by up to 82 %, in one example from 4.4 s to 800 ms, without requiring changes to applications.

GitHub Copilot adds telemetry for skills, custom agents, MCP and plugins to the usage metrics API

GitHub has expanded the usage metrics API for Copilot CLI with new fields tracking the use of skills, custom agents, MCP servers, slash commands and plugins – administrators can now see which agentic tools developers actually use.

Amazon launched Amazon Connect Talent for AI-led interviews in high-volume recruitment

Amazon launched Amazon Connect Talent, a tool that has AI agents conduct candidate interviews and assessments for hiring at scale (retail, logistics, hospitality); recruiters set the criteria and make final decisions based on a dashboard with scores and transcripts.

GitHub Copilot introduces a generally available feature for requesting increases to AI credit budgets

GitHub has made a feature generally available that lets organization members request a budget increase immediately after exhausting their AI credits in GitHub Copilot instead of having their access blocked; administrators approve requests directly in the settings. Available for Business and Enterprise plans.

GitHub expands AI Scan for pull requests to repositories without CodeQL default setup

GitHub has enabled AI Scan to find security issues in pull requests even without CodeQL default setup configured. The feature is in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers on github.com; GitHub Enterprise Server is not yet supported.

Hugging Face released open-source multimodal encoders NeoMME for visual document retrieval

Hugging Face released open-source multimodal encoders NeoMME (260M and 800M parameters, Apache 2.0) for document retrieval from page images — according to the company, 2× faster than ColModernVBERT and with an index reduced in size by 255×.