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How Telcos Build Autonomous Networks with Agentic AI
Telecom operators are adopting AI across network operations, customer care, and back-office workflows, but most are still early in the journey to autonomy. In...
How Omio is building the future of conversational travel
Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.
Shipping huggingface_hub every week with AI, open tools, and a human in the loop
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Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js
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CCCL Runtime: A Modern C++ Runtime for CUDA
The NVIDIA CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL) provides delightful and efficient abstractions for CUDA developers in C++ and Python. It features: Parallel...
Enable Real-Time AI for High-Speed Data Acquisition with DAQIRI
When AlphaFold2 revolutionized drug discovery in 2020, its success relied entirely on the roughly 170,000 protein structures collected by scientists since 1971...
PP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters
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Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI
Physical AI—robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional...
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
OpenAI introduces Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative helping open-source maintainers find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities with AI and expert review.
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world
OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.
Codex-maxxing for long-running work
Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.
We got local models to triage the OpenClaw repo for FREE!*
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Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees
Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.
MosaicLeaks: Can your research agent keep a secret?
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New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises
OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT
Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.
Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?
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Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling
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From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot
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A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks
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Introducing LifeSciBench
Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.
Agentic Resource Discovery: Let agents search
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Building AI Agents for AR Glasses and XR Devices with NVIDIA XR AI
Developers building for AR glasses and wearable devices face an infrastructure gap. The hardware is ready, but creating AI experiences requires integrating live...