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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 21 Aug.
Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini
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Helping businesses optimize network costs with the Visa Digital Commerce Authentication Program (DCAP)
We moved quickly to help Stripe businesses take advantage of DCAP and capture interchange savings while protecting authorization rates. Here’s what we did.
Build Personal AI Agents on Windows PCs with New Tools from Microsoft and NVIDIA
AI agents are changing how you interact with your PC. Creators, developers, and AI enthusiasts are already using these agents extensively to assist with...
Deploy Self-Evolving Agents for Faster, More Secure Research with a Hermes Agent and NVIDIA NemoClaw
AI agents are a powerful tool for synthesizing data to accelerate research, summarize information, and help teams make decisions faster. But combining internal...
Fixing my ridiculous fridge with a tiny Funnel site
I built a tiny transit dashboard for my fridge. Tailscale Funnel made it easy to share—and reminded me what belongs on the public internet.
Fragments: June 2
Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more productive? Each of those approaches is flawed in a dif...
Using Salting to Lower Latency for Large Blobs in ScyllaDB
A modified salting technique that cuts P99 write latency 22x for large blobs
Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents
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Dear cqlsh: Your dependencies were killing us (P.S. We rewrote you in Rust)
A story of rewriting cqlsh in Rust…with Claude Code and a lot of planning Dear cqlsh, I vouched for you. I told the team you were fine. I forked you, catered to you, vendored your dependencies and your dependencies’ dependencies. I patched things upstream that I knew you would never merge. I pinned ...
Travelers deploys AI-powered claims countrywide with OpenAI
Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
ChatGPT Sites
Create that kind of lightweight website or app with Codex.
Codex for every role, tool, and workflow
Discover new Codex plugins, sites, and annotations that help analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and other teams get more done with AI.
Advancing youth safety and opportunity through global leadership
OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety, proposing an international institute to strengthen safeguards, standards, and opportunities for young people.
Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone
The Next Era of Knowledge Work report explores how Codex is transforming productivity through AI-powered research, data analysis, workflow automation, and content creation.
Deploy Agentic-Ready AI at the Edge with Memory Efficiency in NVIDIA JetPack 7.2
As AI agents move from the digital world to the physical environment, they can readily use NVIDIA Jetson to accelerate real-world deployment with optimized...
How OmniNode uses Redpanda to scale AI agent workflows
OmniNode’s founder shares his journey building the AI agent workflows that became OmniNode, and how Redpanda keeps topic names from drifting with contracts.
From single pull requests to full software packages: Detecting malicious code at scale
By combining stacked LLM evaluations with tool-driven investigation, we scaled malicious code detection from pull requests to dependency packages without sacrificing accuracy or cost control.
Run Local AI Agents with Faster Models and Multi-Node Clustering on NVIDIA DGX Spark
The rise of autonomous, long-running AI agents has introduced a new class of compute demand, namely tasks that maintain large context windows, spawn concurrent...
From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped developers, students, and operators make sense of Kuber...
Our views on AI policy and political advocacy
Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.
Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains
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Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic
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Building the infrastructure for the Intelligence Age in Michigan
OpenAI breaks ground on a 1GW data center project in Michigan as part of Stargate, building AI infrastructure to expand access, create jobs, and support communities.
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.
How to Post-Train Autonomous Vehicle Models in Closed-Loop with NVIDIA Alpamayo
Developing autonomous vehicle (AV) policies requires bridging an important gap between training and deployment. Vision-language-action (VLA) models that can...