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Eight US States Deploy Agentic AI Tools in Production

Eight US state governments reported deploying agentic AI tools into active production environments for cybersecurity operations.

NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge 

Catching wildfires earlier: AI gives firefighters a head start

President Honors NASA’s Artemis II Crew with Highest US Space Award

NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned

What Lake Bonneville Left Behind

NASA Shares Views of August Solar Eclipse from Ground, Air, Space

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Set to Receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Enter Google Play’s sweepstakes to win legendary experiences and collectibles with your Play Points.

Tap to pay with Google Pay is coming to Walmart.

Samsung Research America Expands Academic Collaboration Through the 2026 START Program

Europe’s Scorching Summer

How SLED can win the cybersecurity race with agentic AI

SmallSat 2026

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

AWS Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-In

Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers

Generative AI Inference Recommendation for Amazon SageMaker now available in the SageMaker AI Studio

Take an interactive journey through America’s national parks

AWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale

NASA Selects University Teams to Help Advance Aviation Research

The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments

NASA Data Feeds River Forecasts as Snow Drought Effects Linger

Going with the Flow(s): Distinct Clusters Target Individuals of Interest to Russia

Six in 10 Leaders Bet Big on Robots. Only Four in 10 Are Ready.

Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock

Web Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia Pacific

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control

Back to School 2026

College students get 12 months of Google AI free

NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission

Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions

NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce

AWS IAM now supports 20 managed policies per role by default

Alexa+ is now included on Fire TV at no additional cost

Career Spotlight: Mechanic (Ages 14-18)

AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Tape and Volume Gateway

Amazon Prime Air drone delivery is expanding to nearly 500 US cities and towns this year

How state and local agencies can get ahead of fraud starting with the data they already have

AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors

Do more online with Gemini in Chrome for Android.

Intel Corporation to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

5 ways Amazon is investing in Arizona

America’s Workforce Academy: No Cost. No Prior Experience Necessary. A Career on the Other Side.

From first serve to match point: Inside the technology powering the Cincinnati Open

Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Scaling Impact: 2025-26 Corporate Responsibility Report

Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models

5 ways Amazon is investing in Nevada

5 ways Amazon is investing in Colorado

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC domains

NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility

Amazon Location Service now supports POI category and density filtering in map styles

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

The Defender’s Window

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project

Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs

Summer Triangle Corner: Deneb

How Amazon is supporting communities impacted by wildfires in Spokane, Washington

NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies 

NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow

NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun 

Applied Materials to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

A Sunflower’s View of Totality

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is… and NASA, Too

Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!

Apple opens Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston

Claude Opus 5 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

Samsung TV Plus Greenlights Season Two of Hooligans: The ARCH Racing Project with Keanu Reeves & Gard Hollinger

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock

Samsung and Care New England Transform Labor and Delivery Care with Innovative Display Ecosystem

Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages

Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke

NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon 

Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis

NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Leaves NASA, Career Includes 4 Spaceflights

Pursuing a Dream of Working for NASA

Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Polar Geospatial Center EarthDEM Elevation Products

Breathing Emergency Detection, now on Pixel Watch

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NABTU and Meta Announce New Partnership to Invest In Skilled Trades for the AI Era

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

Stops Along the Path of Totality

Stream free movies and shows on Google TV Freeplay

Learn Vibe Coding with the Google AI Certificate

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.

Expanding connectivity in the Americas: Introducing Alisios, Canoa, and OlaLuz subsea cables

Testing ads in ChatGPT

Community College Instructors Bring Astronomy Textbook Into 21st Century

NASA+ Debuts on discovery+, Coming Soon to HBO Max

Have more fun at the state fair with these Google tools

Apple, MLB announce September “Friday Night Baseball” schedule

Launch Into a New School Year With NASA

Meta Upholds Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Data Center Standards

The Future is for Everyone

APOD: 2026 August 9 – Contemplating the Sun

Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

2026 IGARSS Hyperwall Schedule

Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards

Educators & Teens Get Hands-On With TEMPO Data to Help Investigate Local Air Quality

NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters at Work (Artist’s Concept)

I Am Artemis Tom Percy

JOB OPPORTUNITIES: NASA OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL

UNC6671 Rebrands: Multi-Brand Vishing Extortion Targets Financial Services and Enterprise Cloud Environments

GeForce NOW Shakes Up August With 26 New Games

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability

How the Tide Turns at the Mouth of the Elbe

NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer

NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US

As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up

Smoke Streams Across Eastern Washington

New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex

Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas

XBOX celebrates 25 years of play with updates, FanFest tour dates and more

A Bare Summer for Barnes Ice Cap

Introducing Claude for Nonprofits \\ Anthropic

NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay

Ike Theriot Helps Prepare Astronauts to Work on the Moon 

NASA Brings Space Exploration to the FIFA World Cup 

APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula

APOD: 2026 August 3 – Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula

APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia

APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

NASA to Host Florida Event Celebrating American Air, Space Leadership

NASA’s Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley

NASA, SpaceX Advance Wind Tunnel Tests for Starship Rocket 

NASA Opens New Flight Dynamics Research Facility in Virginia

What Google Cloud announced in AI this month

What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration this month

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA

The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed

NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission

A new generation of Mexican entrepreneurs is using AI skills to solve local challenges

Batten Down Your Packages: Mitigation Guidance for Supply Chain Compromise

NASA Johnson Interns Shaping the Future of Exploration 

NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts - NASA

Microsoft Cloud and AI strength fuels fourth quarter results - Source

NASA Sets Coverage for August Northern Hemisphere Total Solar Eclipse - NASA

NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte

NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures - NASA

NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects - NASA Science

Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Ray Williams

Bringing Conversational Analytics to your entire data ecosystem

Future-proofing data integrity: Quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS

Meta Announces New Strategic Venture With BlackRock to Develop Data Center in El Paso

Smoke Blankets Oregon - NASA Science

Our position on open-weights models \ Anthropic

NASA to Cover Three US Spacewalks, Host Preview News Conference - NASA

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission - NASA

NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse - NASA Science

Enhancing AI security through global AI red teaming | Microsoft Security Blog

Announcing general availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery

NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star - NASA Science

Announcing the AI Glasses Impact Grant Recipients: Helping People Work, Learn, and Live More Independently

Modernizing the skies: NOAA and Google Cloud collaborate to advance weather forecasting

Industry Leaders Join Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security | NVIDIA Blog

How AI is expanding what people do at work | OpenAI

Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund \ Anthropic

NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon

New Small Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at the Moon

Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust

NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis - NASA

Open Weights and American AI Leadership | Satya Nadella | 520 comments

Introducing Seller, an App for Facebook Marketplace Sellers

Connecting Real People on Facebook

At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners | NVIDIA Blog

A Million-Panel Project - NASA Science

Issue 05 | Signal Magazine

AI Supercomputer Comes Online at Naval Postgraduate School | NVIDIA Blog

Launching Health in ChatGPT | OpenAI

Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community | OpenAI

Advancing the next era of national science | OpenAI

Donating another $20 million to Public First Action \ Anthropic

Built in Fort Worth: Wistron Opens Advanced Manufacturing Plant to Produce NVIDIA AI Systems | NVIDIA Blog

Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program | OpenAI

New Parental Supervision Tools Coming To Threads

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lower Token Costs for Partners Worldwide | NVIDIA Blog

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC | OpenAI

At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Advances Graphics and Simulation With Agentic and Physical AI | NVIDIA Blog

The 2026 Summer of Football: A Record-Breaking Moment Across Meta

Energy and Infrastructure  - NASA Science

Disasters - NASA Science

NASA Welcomes Serbia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory  - NASA

NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet - NASA

Alerting Parents if Teens Show Signs of Distress in Conversations With Meta AI

Introducing Claude for Teachers \ Anthropic

Major League Soccer returns to Apple TV tomorrow - Apple (CA)

The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action | OpenAI

NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry | NVIDIA Blog

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research \ Anthropic

Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI | OpenAI

Apple and Major League Baseball announce August “Friday Night Baseball” schedule - Apple (CA)

Apple scores record 89 Emmy Award nominations - Apple (CA)

Apple unveils innovative features and intelligence experiences across services - Apple (CA)