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OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, embedding frontier research and engineering directly into accounting and IT services to boost speed, accuracy, and efficiency while creating a scalable model for industry-wide transformation.
Accenture and OpenAI accelerate enterprise AI success
Accenture and OpenAI are collaborating to help enterprises bring agentic AI capabilities into the core of their business and unlock new levels of growth.
Transformers v5: Simple model definitions powering the AI ecosystem
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A Tale Of Four Fuzzers
Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest pe...
On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans"
There are now multiple AI performance engineering agents that use or are trained on my work. Some are helper agents that interpret flame graphs or eBPF metrics, sometimes privately called AI Brendan ; others have trained on my work to create a virtual Brendan that claims it can tune everything just ...
Mixpanel security incident: what OpenAI users need to know
OpenAI shares details about a Mixpanel security incident involving limited API analytics data. No API content, credentials, or payment details were exposed. Learn what happened and how we’re protecting users.
Expanding data residency access to business customers worldwide
OpenAI expands data residency for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform, enabling eligible customers to store data at rest in-region.
AlphaFold: Five years of impact
Explore how AlphaFold has accelerated science and fueled a global wave of biological discovery.
Revealing a key protein behind heart disease
AlphaFold has revealed the structure of a key protein behind heart disease
What's new in Redpanda Cloud: A simpler Serverless now on GCP
Redpanda Serverless gives you the shortest path from idea to impact with a new onboarding UX, availability on GCP, and more. Here’s what’s new.
Inside JetBrains—the company reshaping how the world writes code
JetBrains is integrating GPT-5 across its coding tools, helping millions of developers design, reason, and build software faster.
Diffusers welcomes FLUX-2
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Continuous batching from first principles
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Building Deep Research: How we Achieved State of the Art
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OVHcloud on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
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Google DeepMind supports U.S. Department of Energy on Genesis: a national mission to accelerate innovation and scientific discovery
Google DeepMind and the DOE partner on Genesis, a new effort to accelerate science with AI.
Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT
Shopping research in ChatGPT helps you explore, compare, and discover products with personalized buyer’s guides that simplify decision-making
GPT-5 and the future of mathematical discovery
UCLA Professor Ernest Ryu and GPT-5 solved a key question in optimization theory, showcasing AI’s role in accelerating mathematical discovery.
Mathematics of Consensus — Accidental Lecture
Somewhat accidentally, we recorded an impromptu ~2 hour lecture explaining the mathematics behind consensus algorithms, using a Go Pro fisheye—the camera on hand 🤣
Intel is listening, don't waste your shot
Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has made listening to customers a top priority, saying at Intel Vision earlier this year: "Please be brutally honest with us. This is what I expect of you this week, and I believe harsh feedback is most valuable." I'd been in regular meetings with Intel for several years...
20x Faster TRL Fine-tuning with RapidFire AI
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Open ASR Leaderboard: Trends and Insights with New Multilingual & Long-Form Tracks
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How we’re bringing AI image verification to the Gemini app
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Build with Nano Banana Pro, our Gemini 3 Pro Image model
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Introducing Nano Banana Pro
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