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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.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia builds AI fluency at scale
Commonwealth Bank of Australia partners with OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to 50,000 employees, building AI fluency at scale to improve customer service and fraud response.
OpenAI appoints Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer
Denise Dresser is joining as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing OpenAI’s global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. She will help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations as OpenAI continues to scale.
Instacart and OpenAI partner on AI shopping experiences
OpenAI and Instacart are deepening their longstanding partnership by bringing the first fully integrated grocery shopping and Instant Checkout payment app to ChatGPT.
The state of enterprise AI
Key findings from OpenAI’s enterprise data show accelerating AI adoption, deeper integration, and measurable productivity gains across industries in 2025.
Discord Patch Notes: December 8, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Gift Ideas for the Dedicated Discord User in Your Life
We’ve got plenty of gift ideas, from those who game through the night, to those who decorate their profile just right — let’s dig in!
How Virgin Atlantic uses AI to enhance every step of travel
Virgin Atlantic CFO Oliver Byers shares how the airline is using AI to speed up development, improve decision-making, and elevate customer experience.
Introducing swift-huggingface: The Complete Swift Client for Hugging Face
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Introducing OpenAI for Australia
OpenAI is launching OpenAI for Australia to build sovereign AI infrastructure, upskill more than 1.5 million workers, and accelerate innovation across the country’s growing AI ecosystem.
Engineering more resilient crops for a warming climate
Scientists are using AlphaFold to strengthen a photosynthesis enzyme for resilient, heat-tolerant crops.
Leaving Intel
InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last day I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much of this is public: AI flam...
Your Discord Checkpoint is Rolling Out! Celebrate What You Did in 2025
How many messages did you send? How long did you hang out in voice? Who’d you talk with the most? Stop by your end-of-year Checkpoint, a recap of the stuff YOU did on Discord throughout the year!
DeepMath: A lightweight math reasoning Agent with smolagents
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We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
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From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates
Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved
How confessions can keep language models honest
OpenAI researchers are testing “confessions,” a method that trains models to admit when they make mistakes or act undesirably, helping improve AI honesty, transparency, and trust in model outputs.
OpenAI to acquire Neptune
OpenAI is acquiring Neptune to deepen visibility into model behavior and strengthen the tools researchers use to track experiments and monitor training.
Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees
The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity.
Save and Display Your Faves: Add Discord Shop & Marvel Rivals Items to Your Profile’s Wishlist
Keep track of all the stuff from the Shop you’ve been wanting to purchase with the new Wishlist feature. Display the stuff you’ve been eyeing on your profile, and if you’re lucky enough, maybe one of your friends may see it and gift it to you…
Bringing In-Game Commerce to Discord Communities
By bringing commerce directly to official game communities, we're giving game developers the opportunity to benefit from these dynamics, creating incremental revenue that complements their existing storefronts.
Operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps
Here’s how to operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps for less manual ops, predictable deployments, and a standard workflow.
Inside Mirakl's agentic commerce vision
Mirakl is redefining commerce through AI agents and ChatGPT Enterprise—achieving faster documentation, smarter customer support, and building toward agent-native commerce with Mirakl Nexus.
Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents
Slack’s Security Engineering team is responsible for protecting Slack’s core infrastructure and services. Our security event ingestion pipeline handles billions of events per day from a diverse array of data sources. Reviewing alerts produced by our security detection system is our primary responsib...
Funding grants for new research into AI and mental health
OpenAI is awarding up to $2 million in grants for research at the intersection of AI and mental health. The program supports projects that study real-world risks, benefits, and applications to improve safety and well-being.
OpenAI and NORAD team up to bring new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa”
OpenAI and NORAD are bringing new magic to “NORAD Tracks Santa” with three ChatGPT holiday tools that let families create festive elves, toy coloring pages, and custom Christmas stories.