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GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model
Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs. This post goes into the details on how we achieved: doubling end-to-end (E2E) training efficienc...
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0 , which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In previous releases, Gateway API established a ...
How to Run Isolated Tenant Kubernetes Clusters on Shared GPU Infrastructure
Running a dedicated Kubernetes cluster per team often results in more isolation than an organization requires. While one cluster can be successfully shared...
NVIDIA Vera Storage Benchmarks: Faster Encryption, Compression, Integrity Checking, and Recovery for AI-Native Storage
Storage is an active part of every agentic AI workflow. As agents retrieve enterprise knowledge, access persistent memory, reuse key-value (KV) cache data,...
LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
Out-of-band Policy Engine: governance AI agents can't ignore
Somewhere in your company, right now, someone is building an agent. Here’s how the latest release of Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane makes it safe to run them.
Agentic kill switch is a database problem. So we built Redpanda SQL
Agentic governance needs a new kind of database, so we built Redpanda SQL. Now available on both AWS and Google Cloud.
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
Secure every commit to production with Claude and GitLab
Agentic coding is moving faster than many enterprise governance programs can keep up with. Coding assistants, like the Claude security guidance plugin and Claude Security, can flag and fix common vulnerabilities in code as it's written, in the same session. This is valuable for writing more secure c...
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
Co-Designing AI Model Attention for Fast, Interactive Long-Context Inference
As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because...
Tailscale didn’t stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Tailscale wasn’t exploited. We still should have stopped the intrusion.
Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
by Aarti Laddha , Richard Diaz-Cool , Rishika Idnani , Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud gaming, across a diverse ecosystem of devices. However, not all devices are crea...
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for the Kubernetes v1.37 release that the release team feels...
NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1: Zero-Copy Transcode, AV1 B-Frames, and Frame-Accurate Seek
The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,...
Reflections on AI Week, and the future of solving problems with observability and AI
Thank you for spending AI Week with us. We’re thrilled by the reaction and we all enjoyed replying to your questions. Thanks for engaging. Some of my favorite quotes from LinkedIn and Reddit include: “Grafana’s latest announcements aren’t just 'AI features.' They signal a shift in what observability...
Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
Advancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
Building abundant intelligence
A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.
The Conductor Developer
TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve framed AI as a productivity tool. How much faster can it ...
Consul + CyberArk WIM: External CA for the service mesh
Consul Enterprise 2.0 lets you use CyberArk Workload Identity Manager as an external CA for the mesh, anchoring trust in PKI your security team already governs.
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce
See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.
Massively parallel Postgres backups
PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.