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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.
Architectural Choices in China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem: Building Beyond DeepSeek
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Alyah ⭐️: Toward Robust Evaluation of Emirati Dialect Capabilities in Arabic LLMs
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PVH reimagines the future of fashion with OpenAI
PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.
Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS: A Practical Retrospective
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Clear state, predictable behavior, fewer surprises. That's what happened after we refactored our scheduler. Here's what we did and a demo comparing the old with the new.
Some notes on starting to use Django
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+ years. It feels really good when every problem I’m ever going to have has been solved already 1000 times and I can just get stuff done easily. I’ve thought it...
Introducing Prism
Prism is a free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in, helping researchers write, collaborate, and reason in one place.
TRUSTBANK uses AI agents to personalize Furusato Nozei gifts
TRUSTBANK partnered with Recursive to build Choice AI using OpenAI models, enabling personalized conversational recommendations that simplify Furusato Nozei gift discovery.
How Indeed uses AI to help evolve the job search
Indeed’s CRO Maggie Hulce shares how AI is transforming job search, recruiting, and talent acquisition for employers and job seekers.
Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning
And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers
Unrolling the Codex agent loop
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
Inside GPT-5 for Work: How Businesses Use GPT-5
A data-driven report on how workers across industries use ChatGPT—covering adoption trends, top tasks, departmental patterns, and the future of AI at work.
Inside Praktika's conversational approach to language learning
How Praktika uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2 to build adaptive AI tutors that personalize lessons, track progress, and help learners achieve real-world language fluency
How Higgsfield turns simple ideas into cinematic social videos
Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.
AssetOpsBench: Bridging the Gap Between AI Agent Benchmarks and Industrial Reality
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Introducing Edu for Countries
Edu for Countries is a new OpenAI initiative helping governments use AI to modernize education systems and build future-ready workforces.
How countries can end the capability overhang
Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.
How to optimize real-time data ingestion in Snowflake and Iceberg
Learn about the hidden costs of real-time data ingestion and practical strategies to optimize your streaming infrastructure.
Horizon 1000: Advancing AI for primary healthcare
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation launch Horizon 1000, a $50M pilot advancing AI capabilities for healthcare in Africa. The initiative aims to reach 1,000 clinics by 2028.
Stargate Community
Stargate Community plans detail a community-first approach to AI infrastructure, using locally tailored plans shaped by community input, energy needs, and workforce priorities.
One Year Since the “DeepSeek Moment”
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ServiceNow powers actionable enterprise AI with OpenAI
ServiceNow expands access to OpenAI frontier models to power AI-driven enterprise workflows, summarization, search, and voice across the ServiceNow Platform.
Differential Transformer V2
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Our approach to age prediction
ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.