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Kubernetes v1.36: ハル (Haru)
Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the ...
Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter
OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy
Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable
The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on February 27, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API v1.5.1 patch release is already available. The Gatew...
Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation
Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world.
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0
ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.
QIMMA قِمّة ⛰: A Quality-First Arabic LLM Leaderboard
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Approaches to tenancy in Postgres
There are many ways to slice a Postgres database for multi-tenant applications. Let's look at the three most common approaches and the trade-offs.
Me and my shadow (link!): Disaster recovery replication made easy
Shadow Linking made simple. Get started with real-time replication.
Scaling Codex to enterprises worldwide
OpenAI launches Codex Labs, partners with with Accenture, PwC, Infosys, and others to help enterprises deploy and scale Codex across the software development lifecycle, and hits 4M Codex WAU.
AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters
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OpenAI helps Hyatt advance AI among colleagues
Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, using GPT-5.4 and Codex to improve productivity, operations, and guest experiences.
My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases
How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling. The post How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Codex for (almost) everything
The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.
Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research
OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.
Making Discord on Desktop Look Just Right: Display Settings to Ease the Eyes
Learn all sorts of toggles, options, and features on Discord’s desktop app to help you view media at your pace, lower the strength of colors across the app, and make app content easier to see.
Redleader revamp: How the Agentic Data Plane enables governed multi-agent AI
How to build safe, multi-agent systems in Redpanda Cloud.
Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all
Leading security firms and enterprises join OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber, using GPT-5.4-Cyber and $10M in API grants to strengthen global cyber defense.
Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents
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The PR you would have opened yourself
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Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
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Redleader revamp: How the Agentic Data Plane enables governed multi-agent AI
How to build safe, multi-agent systems in Redpanda Cloud.
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech
Our newest audio model introduces granular audio tags that give you precise control to direct AI speech for expressive audio generation.
Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents
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The next evolution of the Agents SDK
OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.