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Scaling Laws, Carefully
Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably as we scale up model size $N$, dataset size $D$, and compute $C$, following a power-law curve, which appears as a straight line on a log-log p...
Automatically enrich security logs with MITRE ATT&CK context before they reach your SIEM
Learn how Observability Pipelines enriches security logs with MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques before routing them to your SIEM or storage destination.
How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery
GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could support cancer and autoimmune research.
Reliability fail: No automated zone failover for Coinbase’s global trading service
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Maximize AI Factory Energy Efficiency Through Full-Stack Inference and Training Optimizations
Power can account for 40% of the operating expenses (OpEx) to run an AI factory. Each watt can be spent on overhead, data ingestion, training, or generating...
How Meta Engineered Ultra-Narrow Batteries for AI Glasses
Smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta Vanguards need to pack enough energy to power features like cameras, speakers, AI workloads, and even a display. But it all has to fit into the glasses’ temple arms. So how do you place a battery with enough power to run a pair of smart glasses [.....
Boost Inference Performance up to 15x on NVIDIA Blackwell Using DFlash Speculative Decoding
As AI systems move from single-turn interactions to coordinated multiagent workflows, low-latency inference becomes increasingly important. Autoregressive LLMs...
Build an AI Scientist for Life Science Discovery with NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit
AI scientists are emerging as a new interface for scientific computing. These agents can read papers, write code, generate hypotheses, call APIs, inspect files,...
Helping build shared standards for advanced AI
OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
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...
Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix
By Zhuoning Yuan , Ta-Ying Cheng , Benjamin Klein , Bahareh Azarnoush Introduction At Netflix, we build technology to help storytellers bring their creative visions to life and to help members discover the stories they love. To connect stories with diverse audiences around the world, we produce prom...
Bridge Queries in Redpanda SQL
Stop choosing between fresh data and robust Parquet files. Redpanda SQL bridge queries let you query live streaming topics and historical Iceberg tables together, without the compaction overhead.
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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Four travel and hospitality trends from HITEC 2026
More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.
How we migrated a live routing system using AI-assisted refactoring
Using AI-assisted refactoring, we migrated our live routing brain to a relational model, safely validating changes against live production traffic.
How to migrate feature flags without breaking production
Feature flag migrations have a reputation for stalling. Learn how to structure the process in a few steps: audit legacy flags, validate evaluation parity with shadow mode, and cut over with confidence.
How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue
By Alvin Bao , Alex Petrov , Jennifer Lai , Aidan Sherr , and Samartha Chandrashekar As a part of the journey to transition Netflix’s compute infrastructure to be more Kubernetes-native, we have leaned into incorporating components from the Kubernetes ecosystem into our container platform Titus . On...
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.