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Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS
Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.
Uncovering repurposed medicines to fight liver fibrosis
Stanford geneticist uses Co-Scientist to help find new treatments for chronic liver disease and liver fibrosis.
How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica
Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.
OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider . T...
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy ) in a previous blog post . The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for resources not yet known to an o...
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or ...
Operations workflows with ChatGPT Work
Learn practical ChatGPT Work workflows for initiative briefs, strategy updates, decision packets, and progress reporting.
Databricks brings GPT-5.5 to enterprise agent workflows
Databricks uses GPT-5.5 for enterprise agent workflows after the model set a new state of the art on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.
A new personal finance experience in ChatGPT
Preview a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S. Securely connect your financial accounts and get AI-powered insights and guidance grounded in your financial context, goals, and priorities.
Fragments: May 14
Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the Chatham House Rule, so I can’t attribute the com...
Sea's View on the Future of Agentic Software Development with Codex
Sea Limited's CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
Open the source for the full engineering note.
Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs
The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is not the case, it enables various security exploits...
The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?
For the past few weeks, Anthropic has continually upset devs with its “dumber” model, and by removing Claude Code access from some paid accounts. After securing lots of compute from SpaceX, could the reason have been to conceal capacity issues?
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Bliki: Interrogatory LLM
When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to the user, guidelines on how it should be implemented, information on external systems to consult, and so o...
Work with Codex from anywhere
Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.
Egress problems and where to find them
Reducing the size and frequency of requests to your database has the double benefit of making your applications faster and cheaper.
Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations
Learn how new ChatGPT safety updates improve context awareness in sensitive conversations, helping detect risk over time and respond more safely.
Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching
Open the source for the full engineering note.
Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang scheduling support built on a Pod...
Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows
Learn how OpenAI built a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows with controlled file access and network limits.
Celebrate Discord’s 11th Birthday with an Exclusive Set of Emoji and Wallpapers
Discord is turning 11 this year! To celebrate, we made over twenty Discord-themed emojis, along with over twenty wallpapers, and even a digital poster for everyone to download, for free!