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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US
A new report from OpenAI details PRC-linked influence operations using AI to target U.S. tech debates, data center narratives, tariffs, and false claims about ChatGPT.
Investing in multi-agent AI safety research
Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.
From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI
See how LSEG uses OpenAI to scale trusted AI across its global business, accelerating insights, shrinking release cycles, and empowering 4,000 employees.
Delivering Lifecycle Control for AI Infrastructure at Scale with NVIDIA DGX Spark Enterprise Manageability
As AI infrastructure scales, enterprise expectations for operational maturity are increasing. Organizations expect these systems to be provisionable,...
Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints into High-Performance Inference Engines with NVIDIA TensorRT
This post is the third of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Post-Training...
Accelerating Federated Learning Research with AI Agents and NVIDIA FLARE Auto-FL
Federated learning (FL) research often begins with a deceptively simple question: What should we try next? A new aggregation rule, a FedProx coefficient, a...
Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.
Evaluate Clinical ASR Models Faster with Agent Skills and NVIDIA Nemotron Speech
Training a speech AI model to correctly recognize or synthesize clinical terminology is surprisingly difficult. Drug names like Acetaminophen, Amlodipine,...
Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
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Powering the future of robotics in Europe
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How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits
How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex with GPT-5.5 to investigate hard-to-reproduce issues, build across platforms, and focus on product outcomes.
How an Agent Built a 3D Paris Gallery by Chaining Two Hugging Face Spaces
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What Codex unlocks for Notion
How Notion uses Codex to one-shot specs, build AI Voice Input for the web, and multiply engineering power across small teams.
Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
Migrating Your GitHub CI to Hugging Face Jobs
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Train Models Faster with JAX and MaxText Using NVFP4 on NVIDIA Blackwell
Pre-training frontier LLMs comes down to throughput. When training spans trillions of tokens across thousands of accelerators, every percentage point of step...
Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.
Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond
Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.
Built to benefit everyone: our plan
A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.
Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and the economy. Applications are now open for selected research projects.
The Open Source Community is backing OpenEnv for Agentic RL
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LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra Powers Faster, More Efficient Reasoning for Long-Running Agents
Single-turn chatbots are evolving into long-running agents that can reason, maintain context, use tools, and run efficiently across many turns to complete...
How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents
Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across the enterprise.