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Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP
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Stripe Projects adds new agent integrations, more providers, and custom developer controls
Our data shows that agents are now fully capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. And yet, many of the steps adjacent to writing code are still too hard for agents to do on their own. We’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this.
Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment
Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
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ScyllaDB Operator 1.21 Release — with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Support
Introducing Oracle Kubernetes Engine support, stronger TLS, and a lighter dependency footprint
Designing Production-Ready Battery Energy Storage Systems for AI Factories
AI factories are changing what data-center infrastructure must do. Unlike traditional data centers, AI factories are built to manufacture intelligence at scale....
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.
Updated Requirements to How Apps Access Data in Servers
Discord is updating requirements to how apps access certain data within servers, changing the review threshold and requiring annual review. Here's what's changing and why.
Game On: Discord Is Backing the Next Generation of Dutch Gaming Founders
Together with Techleap, we’re launching the Gaming Founders Circle: a hands-on program for the most ambitious gaming companies in the Netherlands to provide participants with a direct line to the people, investors, and networks that help great games scale.
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.
Store and search high-volume logs with ClickHouse and Datadog
Route logs to ClickHouse with Observability Pipelines and search them from the Datadog Log Explorer.
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...
Redundancy only matters if you can reach it
HP is integrating Tailscale into Remote System Controller, giving administrators secure access to out-of-band management devices through their existing tailnet.
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.
How We Moved Discord Voice to the Edge
Moving Discord’s voice and video onto Cloudflare's edge network. Closer servers, lower ping in most regions, and a few real bugs getting there.