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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses

Mark Zuckerberg · Meta Engineering · Sep 24, 2026

Meta extends Private Processing confidential computing to AI glasses so even Meta can't access user data.

“It extends the trust boundary of AI glasses directly into cloud data centers, executing AI models inside confidential virtual machines (CVMs) such that even Meta cannot access your data.”
Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th!

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 23, 2026

Microsoft refreshed Copilot Studio's Agent Academy and will host an Oct 8th walkthrough of the new agent-building content.

“On October 8th, Jack and I are running a walkthrough of the new content.”
Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th!

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 23, 2026

Microsoft refreshed Agent Academy and Copilot Studio's Agent Studio, with a walkthrough event on October 8th.

“We have new ways to build in Copilot Studio.”
Stop guessing which model your agent needs

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Sep 23, 2026

Microsoft Foundry's catalog offers over 11,000 models and tools to filter them by scenario, task, and deployment.

“How do you narrow down to the best model for your scenario?”
Who The Academy is made for

a16z · Sep 23, 2026

a16z's Academy targets young builders who will found billion-dollar companies employing hundreds of thousands.

“These are the people who are going to employ thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in the future.”
Manage Kubernetes Node Fleets with NodeWright

NVIDIA Developer Blog · Sep 23, 2026

NVIDIA introduces NodeWright to manage Kubernetes node fleets for GPU workloads.

“Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge”
Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 23, 2026

AWS shows an agentic AI architecture that answers natural language questions about video using Bedrock, Rekognition, and Transcribe.

“The result: a reduction in manual review time of approximately 80 percent across a backlog of more than 200 multi-hour recordings”
Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 23, 2026

Open weight models on Amazon Bedrock let developers run private, pay-per-use AI coding agents like OpenCode.

“What if you could run an AI coding agent that keeps your data in your own AWS account, switches between frontier open weight models on demand, and charges only for what you consume?”
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on The Ezra Klein Show

Jensen Huang · NVIDIA GTC · Sep 23, 2026

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang frames himself as a 'responsible optimist' who absorbs AI's risks so society can benefit from the technology.

“I'm going to do my work so incredibly seriously that what they get to enjoy is my optimism.”
The most expensive 33 hours in WordPress history...

Fireship · Sep 23, 2026

Automattic's board tried to oust co-founder Matt Mullenweg as CEO, but he reclaimed the role within 33 hours.

“One thing is if you're really open in open source, sometimes you have to stand up to bullies and you have to fight to protect your open source ideals.”
Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Simon Willison · Sep 23, 2026

Google released two new Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models with 2,000+ voices and custom voice cloning.

“just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have the rights to use”
How Higher Ed Is Putting AI Agents to Work

Salesforce · Salesforce News · Sep 23, 2026

Universities like Penn State and DePaul are deploying Salesforce Agentforce agents to automate enrollment and financial aid workflows at scale.

“drowning in data but parched for actionable insights”
Create a Genie Agent from Genie One

Databricks · Sep 23, 2026

Databricks demonstrates turning a Genie One workflow into a reusable agent that automates recurring blog-performance reporting.

“I don't need to add additional levels of detail... Genie already knows in the context of my organization what I mean and what is important to me.”
Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Simon Willison · Sep 23, 2026

Simon Willison published an interactive tool explaining CSS shadow roots, built with Fable 5.1 Medium.

“Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples”