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

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Sep 23, 2026

invideo uses GPT‑6 Astra to triple color grading quality and generate 50 custom effects daily.

“invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day”
Introducing MentalHealthBench

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Sep 23, 2026

OpenAI introduces MentalHealthBench, an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating safe AI responses in mental health conversations.

“MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.”
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

Simon Willison · Sep 23, 2026

Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent are hosting an informal SF show-and-tell for people building experiments on top of coding agents.

“This isn't about product pitches, it's about much earlier explorations than that. This agentic AI stuff is weird! Let's celebrate and lean into that weirdness.”
Better prompt caching for GPT-6

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Sep 22, 2026

GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher hit rates, explicit breakpoints, and new latency/cost controls.

How To Build A Harness With Jev | A LangChain x TypeSafe Conversation

LangChain · Sep 22, 2026

TypeSafe's Jev is a new 'System 1' model class making fast type-safe decisions rather than generating text.

“Jev does not generate text. It is not a generative AI in that sense... Jev is about making fast decisions from specifically well-scoped questions with type safe schemas for each of them.”
Full Course: Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents

DeepLearningAI · Sep 22, 2026

DeepLearning.AI and JetBrains launch a course teaching spec-driven development as the best workflow for building serious apps with coding agents.

“Spec driven development is currently the best type of workflow for building serious applications with agentic coding assistance.”
How businesses can use AI and keep their data private

NVIDIA GTC · Sep 22, 2026

Confidential computing lets enterprises run encrypted, never-decrypted model weights in their own data centers.

“the only way to uh unlock AI with that data set is really to bring the model down to the data center”
Quoting @therealcornpop

Simon Willison · Sep 22, 2026

AI-generated scripts are detectable by their lack of genuine voice and opinions, not just stylistic tells.

“It's the lack of a definitive sort of spear of your voice. It's the fact I can tell you don't have opinions about the thing that you're talking about.”
What is LangSmith?

LangChain · Sep 22, 2026

LangSmith is LangChain's framework-agnostic platform for tracing, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM agents.

“Agents are a black box, making them difficult to observe and debug.”
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 22, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, first of the Claude 5.5 family, launches on Amazon Bedrock.

“Claude Opus 5.5 does more with fewer tokens than Claude Opus 5, and new pricing passes those gains straight to customers.”
Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 22, 2026

Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore add skill-focused evaluators to measure agent skill selection and instruction following.

“A skill is a reusable set of instructions, usually stored in a SKILL.md file, that teaches an agent a domain-specific task like redacting a contract, reconciling an invoice, or following a team’s pull-request conventions.”
Ship a GitHub PR From a Slack Message with Managed Deep Agents

LangChain · Sep 22, 2026

LangChain's Managed Deep Agents let you build a Slack-to-GitHub-PR coding agent in a few lines of code.

“It's an agent that can be called through Slack to write GitHub PRs. And best of all, it only took a few lines of code to write and to deploy.”