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Gartner published its 2026 Hype Cycle for Cloud and AI, analyzing that frontier AI and other technologies are at the peak.

Google announced the discontinuation of its custom bot feature, Gem, in favor of the successor Skills, with automatic migration for personal accounts starting November 17.

• •Existing Gems will be automatically converted to Skills without user intervention.
• •Automatic migration for personal accounts begins on November 17.
• •The discontinuation and migration were announced through in-app notifications.

NSSOL signed a strategic partnership with Anthropic to promote AI agent integration and system modernization.

• •NSSOL became the first user-side SI in Japan to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Anthropic.
• •The partnership aims to promote AI agent integration and the modernization of legacy systems.
• •The announcement was made on September 28.

Anthropic announced its new model, Claude Sonnet 5.5, which is faster and smarter than previous models while keeping API prices unchanged.

• •Announced on September 28, with availability starting the same day via the Claude Platform API.
• •API prices remain unchanged from the previous model at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
• •Processing speed is improved by over 30%, and costs are reduced by up to 30%.

Introduces updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Teams, including enhanced context utilization features.

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an integrated monitoring service leveraging AI technology.

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs, an AI company led by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, for approximately $8.2 billion to strengthen next-generation infrastructure using spatial intelligence and physical AI.

• •AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in a stock swap worth approximately $8.2 billion (about 1.3 trillion yen).
• •After the acquisition, Li will become AMD's EVP and Chief Scientist, responsible for building an open AI ecosystem.
• •The company aims to strengthen next-generation infrastructure integrating hardware and models by incorporating expertise in spatial intelligence and physical AI.

An explanatory article listing multiple GitHub Copilot updates announced during the week of September 21.

An OpenAI senior executive told the Wall Street Journal that a problematic model was discarded due to safety concerns stemming from its low ability to follow instructions.

• •An OpenAI senior executive discussed the discarding of a specific model in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
• •The model was discarded because its low aptitude for following instructions raised safety concerns.

An introductory article summarizing the updates announced for Google Workspace during the week of September 21.