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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 22 Aug.
Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026
Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.
Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer
OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing
Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.
Building with Redpanda Connect: Bloblang and Claude Plugin
Join our workshop to learn how to build a production-ready Postgres-to-Redpanda pipeline and see what that simplicity looks like in practice.
Aloha, Redpanda FY27 company kick-off
From AI hackathons to hakas, here’s what happened at our fourth company kick-off.
Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners
OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.
Our First Proof submissions
We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.
GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
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Train AI models with Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs for FREE
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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
Advancing independent research on AI alignment
OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.
Osprey: Open Sourcing our Rule Engine
Discord uses Osprey to quickly detect and remove new types of harm from putting our customers at risk. Now we’re open-sourcing this tool so others can do the same.
How to Change Your Theme to Bring Your Vibe to Discord
Add a splash of personality and make Discord pop by changing Discord’s color scheme! Learn how to adjust the look of Discord on both desktop and mobile.
Introducing OpenAI for India
OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country—building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.
IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST
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A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.
Redpanda Agentic Data Plane is now available
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Notes on clarifying man pages
Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, git, dig, etc) which have a man page as their primary documentation. This is because I often fi...
Introducing EVMbench
OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.
One-Shot Any Web App with Gradio's gr.HTML
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Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education
Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education
Index, Count, Offset, Size
Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things.
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.