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ttok 0.4

Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a…

Quoting Carson Gross

Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve…

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol now supports Ultrafast mode on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the availability of Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Ultrafast mode provides faster inference for workloads where speed matters most. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine…

AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes

AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost Management Dashboards now let you analyze Amazon Bedrock costs by product attributes, a new dimension that breaks down Bedrock cost by model, model provider, inference type,…

2026 Usage Policy update

We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.

How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery

Anthropic is committing $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to accelerate scientific and technological discovery through AI.

Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed

LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.

Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission

We’re launching the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment to securing the systems everyone depends on.

Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases

Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS…

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI

Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage

There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero

The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

Claude can now build your dashboards

A month after OpenAI gave ChatGPT Work a data agent that builds dashboards, Anthropic on Thursday shipped its own version. Claude Dashboards, The post Claude can now build your dashboards appeared first on The New Stack.

OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace…

Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference

Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference,…