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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 23 Aug.
Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth
Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth
Gemini achieves gold-medal level at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves breakthrough performance at the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition, demonstrating a profound leap in abstract problem solving.
Discovering new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics
Our new method could help mathematicians leverage AI techniques to tackle long-standing challenges in mathematics, physics and engineering.
LeRobot v0.4.0: Supercharging OSS Robot Learning
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OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky—a natural language interface for Mac that brings AI directly into your desktop experience. Together, we’re integrating Sky’s deep macOS capabilities into ChatGPT to make AI more intuitive, contextual, and action-oriented.
Consensus accelerates research with GPT-5 and Responses API
Consensus uses GPT-5 and OpenAI’s Responses API to power a multi-agent research assistant that reads, analyzes, and synthesizes evidence in minutes—helping over 8 million researchers accelerate scientific discovery.
AI in South Korea—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint
OpenAI's Korea Economic Blueprint outlines how South Korea can scale trusted AI through sovereign capabilities and strategic partnerships to drive growth.
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT
Company knowledge brings context from your apps into ChatGPT for answers specific to your business, with clear citations, security, privacy, and admin controls. Available now for Business, Enterprise, and Edu users.
Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv
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The next chapter for UK sovereign AI
OpenAI expands its UK partnership with a new Ministry of Justice agreement, bringing ChatGPT to civil servants. It also introduces UK data residency for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the API Platform to support trusted and secure AI adoption.
Corrosion
Fly.io transmogrifies Docker containers into Fly Machines: micro-VMs running on our own hardware all over the world. The hardest part of running this platform isn’t managing the servers, and it isn’t operating the network; it’s gluing those two things together. Several times a second, as customer CI...
AI in Japan—OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint
OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint outlines how Japan can harness AI to boost innovation, strengthen competitiveness, and enable sustainable, inclusive growth.
Hugging Face and VirusTotal collaborate to strengthen AI security
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Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face!
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Continue your ChatGPT experience beyond WhatsApp
ChatGPT will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026. Learn how to link your ChatGPT account and continue your conversations across devices.
Build an e-commerce streaming data pipeline with Snowflake and Redpanda
Learn how to set up a live data pipeline streaming e-commerce order data from Redpanda into Snowflake for real-time insights.
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas, the browser with ChatGPT built in
This post introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a browser with ChatGPT built in. Atlas has since been deprecated.
Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models
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Unlock the power of images with AI Sheets
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Tracking Time Without Clock
A short note on a couple of code patterns for handling time!
AI Interview Success: An Interviewer's Inside Guide
From the Other Side of the Screen: What We're Looking For in Your AI-Assisted Interview
AI for Food Allergies
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Google Cloud C4 Brings a 70% TCO improvement on GPT OSS with Intel and Hugging Face
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Plex Coffee delivers fast, personal service with ChatGPT
Learn how Plex Coffee uses ChatGPT Business to centralize knowledge, train staff faster, and preserve personal connections while expanding.
Get your VLM running in 3 simple steps on Intel CPUs
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