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Develop Physical AI Reasoning, World, and Action Models with NVIDIA Cosmos 3
Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what's...
Advancing AI Infrastructure for Agentic AI with NVIDIA DOCA In-Silicon Security
The AI era is driving a new class of infrastructure: AI factories that transform data into intelligence for autonomous AI agents operating at unprecedented...
NVIDIA Vera CPU Sets a New Standard for Agentic Workloads in AI Factories
Each wave of AI has created a new scaling law. Pretraining scaled intelligence through larger datasets, more parameters, and massively parallel GPU systems....
Real-time streaming for the agentic era with NVIDIA
NVIDIA Vera launches today with Redpanda as part of the ecosystem, delivering 5.5x lower latencies for agents running in mission-critical environments.
“Tech and Tariffs” Campaign: Influence activity targeting US tech policy
OpenAI banned likely PRC-origin accounts using AI to create comments and cartoons about US tech policy, tariffs, and trade restrictions.
“Data Center Bandwagon” Campaign: US-targeted influence activity
OpenAI banned a likely PRC-origin cluster using AI to generate social media content criticizing US data centers and AI infrastructure.
A deep dive into AWS data perimeter misconfigurations
Explore how threat emulation can help you find gaps in your AWS data perimeter policies, then learn which organization-level policies can close them.
Migrate to Azure Managed Redis with Datadog and Eden
Migrate to Azure Managed Redis by using Datadog and Eden to establish performance baselines, execute and validate cutovers, and monitor cache health.
How we cut Spark compute costs by 44% with agentic AI and Datadog Jobs Monitoring
See how agentic AI and Jobs Monitoring helped us reduce Spark job duration, infrastructure costs, and the time spent correlating root causes.
Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses
Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.
How Braintrust turns customer requests into code with Codex
How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.
Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense
OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government partners advancing biodefense, public health, and pandemic preparedness through frontier AI.
A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations
OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler
Open the source for the full engineering note.
How a unified data model improves feature flag rollout decisions
Learn how stitched-together tooling can be a bottleneck for shipping at scale, and how a unified platform can bring together product signals for teams to observe their entire stack.
Monitor LLM routing with the Kubernetes Inference Extension
Learn how to use inference-aware routing for your LLM workloads in Kubernetes, and how to monitor performance with Datadog.
Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents
How Dropbox is moving from AI tools that assist engineers to agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.
ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Tyler Denton
Welcome to the first installment of a new blog series introducing some of the experts you’re likely to encounter when you work with ScyllaDB. Let's get to know Tyler Denton, a Solutions Architect on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.
Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud
In early 2023, Slack faced a foundational challenge: serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at enterprise scale with the security, reliability, and performance our customers expect. Over three years, we evolved from basic infrastructure to orchestrating a sophisticated multi-cloud architecture. We did...
How Endava builds an agentic organization with Codex
Learn how Endava uses Codex to build an agentic organization, accelerating software delivery and reducing requirements analysis from weeks to hours.
Official Discord Integrations for Steal a Brainrot, Grow a Garden, Brookhaven RP, and more
How some of the most popular Roblox games have integrated Discord account linking to enhance social features and safety capabilities for official community servers.
OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework
Explore OpenAI’s Frontier Governance Framework and how our AI safety, security, and risk practices align with emerging EU and California regulations.
Solo founding is at an all-time high: Top performers have these traits in common
In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.
Fragments: May 27
At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point - October 2025), we show ou...
The test suite as a regression sensor
Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…