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NASA JPL tested the Claude model from Anthropic in planning routes for the Perseverance rover on Mars

In December 2025, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the Claude model from Anthropic to help plan two drives of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The route was reviewed and adjusted by human operators before being uploaded to the rover.

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Importance: monitoring GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub Copilot gets a validator for checking enterprise managed settings

GitHub has added an in-product validator to GitHub Copilot that checks enterprise managed settings configuration files – it detects malformed JSON, unsupported settings, and invalid team mappings.

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GitHub Copilot: usage metrics API now tracks pull request review phases

The GitHub Copilot usage metrics API has a new field, pull_request_review_times, which shows the median and 90th percentile duration of three pull request review phases – for enterprises and organizations with the metrics policy enabled.

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GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams: public preview of an improved integration

GitHub has launched a public preview update to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams with improved use of conversation context, model switching, and linking to GitHub issues. Available for Business and Enterprise plans, gradual rollout.

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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo enable AI model training across AWS regions without data replication

Amazon Web Services and Qumulo have described a solution that, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Data Fabric, enables training AI models with data located in a different AWS region without copying it. A test on the LLaMA v3 model at 60 ms latency showed performance comparable to that with local data.

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OpenAI fixed a bug in image encoding in the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models

OpenAI has fixed a bug in image encoding in the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models that was degrading visual input understanding in both the API and the Codex product. The company recommends re-verifying affected workflows.

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Google Photos launches AI virtual wardrobe on iOS and Android

Google Photos has launched the virtual wardrobe feature on both iOS and Android in the US, Brazil, and India: AI sorts photos of clothing into collections that can be filtered and combined into outfits, without sharing data with third parties.

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YouTube launches an AI storytelling assistant in Creator Studio

YouTube is adding an AI tool to Creator Studio that analyzes scripts and rough cuts based on the channel's historical performance and suggests adjustments to the video's pacing and structure. Creators can also A/B test up to three edit versions at the same time.

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Google DeepMind describes encrypted server-side memory for Private AI Compute

Google DeepMind has described a new encrypted server-side memory architecture for the Private AI Compute platform. Data is stored in encrypted storage in the cloud, but the decryption keys remain exclusively on the user's devices, so not even Google has access to the content.