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Polars 2.0 pre-release announced
The Polars project has published a pre-release of Polars 2.0, offering developers an early look at the next major version ahead of its full release.
- GitHub Changelog
Enterprises can now set any default model for new Copilot conversations
Enterprise-managed settings now let administrators choose a preferred GitHub Copilot model as the default for new conversations, allowing organizations to standardize on the model that fits their workflows.
- InfoQ AI/ML
Cohere releases Parse 5, a 2.3B multimodal model for document extraction
Cohere launched Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model that extracts structured data from complex enterprise documents, converting visually rich PDFs into Markdown with bounding box coordinates for visual grounding.
- GitHub Changelog
Copilot app and CLI now enforce content exclusion policies, generally available
GitHub Copilot's app and CLI now respect content exclusion policies configured by enterprise, organization, and repository administrators, meaning excluded files are no longer used as context when protecting sensitive code.
- AWS Machine Learning Blog
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna land on Amazon Bedrock for Australian regions
Australian teams can now invoke OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock from Sydney and Melbourne using global cross-Region inference. The post covers invocation, prompt caching, and setting up Codex with OpenID Connect authentication.