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Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants
AI code completion built human review into the process by design. A developer types, a suggestion appears, and a human decides whether to accept it. A person looked at every line before it shipped. Agentic AI breaks that review loop. An agent can open a merge request, call a tool, modify a CI/CD con...
Prioritize security findings with the Datadog Runtime Prioritization Engine
Learn how the Datadog Runtime Prioritization Engine infers ownership and identifies business-critical resources to help you prioritize security findings.
Run High-Performance Core Math at Scale with NVIDIA nvmath-python
NVIDIA nvmath-python is a library designed to bridge the gap between the Python scientific community and NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries. It gives Python users...
Four Ways to Deploy More Secure AI Agents
Knowledge workers are increasingly integrating AI agents into their workflows. Agents that function as "digital coworkers" offer clear benefits. For example,...
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Authors: Ying Li , Arjun Rao , Shradha Sehgal Introduction Recommendations sit at the heart of the Netflix experience. Our current production models rely on thousands of hand‑crafted features over users, items, and interactions, along with specialized architectures for sequence modeling, feature int...
NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud: Lessons for Unlocking Full Performance on AI Infrastructure
Two AI computing clusters built from identical NVIDIA H100, GB200 NVL72, or GB300 NVL72 systems can deliver materially different training throughput. We...
The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
Spotify’s podcast platform has become chronically unreliable since the company’s leadership started boasting about AI adoption. Competitors haven’t had similar issues, so I offboarded from Spotify.
A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
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How to build a trust platform for your agent with Grafana Agent Observability
Observing fast-growing agentic workloads is no small feat, especially if you try to build your own monitoring stack or rely solely on tools built for a time before LLMs. At Grafana Labs, we know this all too well. Grafana Assistant went from an internal hackathon project to generally available in a ...
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more…
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime
avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.
How the controller-runtime Cache Actually Works, and Why Your Controller Does Not Crash the API Server
This article has been revised since it was first published, to correct several significant technical inaccuracies in the original text. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for distributed workloads, and writing your own controller for it is now a matter of a few hours. The common path — Go...
How to Self-Host a Validated AI Coding Assistant with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails
Deploying an AI coding assistant in a regulated, sovereign, or source-sensitive environment, often comes with challenges. Three common issues are: the source...
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control
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Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fast
Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project. The post Tame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadenc...
How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
Automate all the things: How to use Grafana Cloud's AI to relieve the operational burden
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have dramatically changed how we ship software. But once code reaches production, the operational work is still surprisingly manual. Engineers continually monitor systems, investigate unexpected behavior, and decide which issues require action. ...
Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.
Introducing Profile Frames: Decorative Borders to Make Your Discord Profile Museum-Worthy
Introducing Profile Frames: a new way to put a finishing touch on your Discord profile. Frames add a decorative border around your profile, giving the whole thing a look that's unmistakably yours.
10X more data, same 4 seconds: single-query scaling in Redpanda SQL on 1TB
A benchmark on how a single analytical query behaves in Redpanda SQL as the dataset and the cluster grow.