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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.
Discord Patch Notes: September 3, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
SAIR: Accelerating Pharma R&D with AI-Powered Structural Intelligence
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
Building more helpful ChatGPT experiences for everyone
We’re partnering with experts, strengthening protections for teens with parental controls, and routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models in ChatGPT.
Bringing DAVE to All Discord Platforms
From March 1st, 2026, all clients and apps must be updated to utilize DAVE’s end-to-end encryption support for voice and video calls. In this blog, we explore the challenges we encountered bringing E2EE to browsers, and share what you may need to do to ensure your app can still connect to voice call...
Integrating OpenID Connect with Redpanda
Learn how to set up OpenID Connect with Redpanda to protect your critical data from unauthorized access.
Make your ZeroGPU Spaces go brrr with ahead-of-time compilation
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Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates
We’re releasing a more advanced speech-to-speech model and new API capabilities including MCP server support, image input, and SIP phone calling support.
Supporting nonprofit and community innovation
OpenAI launches a $50M People-First AI Fund to help U.S. nonprofits scale impact with AI. Applications open Sept 8–Oct 8, 2025 for grants in education, healthcare, research, and more.
Collective alignment: public input on our Model Spec
OpenAI surveyed over 1,000 people worldwide on how AI should behave and compared their views to our Model Spec. Learn how collective alignment is shaping AI defaults to better reflect diverse human values and perspectives.
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a joint safety evaluation
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highlighting progress, challenges, and the value of cross-lab collaboration.
Starting Your First Discord Server
Looking to create a new Discord server for the first time? How do you invite your friends to it? What even IS a text or voice channel in Discord? Follow along as we help you start up a new place to talk and play games with your friends.
Setting up Redpanda observability in Datadog
A comprehensive guide to integrating the Datadog Agent with Redpanda for data collection, metric scraping, and tapping into Datadog's powerful dashboards.
Helping people when they need it most
How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.
Meet the Redpanda Documentation MCP server
Get instant answers about Redpanda directly in your IDE with our new Model Context Protocol server.
Announcing the OpenAI Learning Accelerator
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Build Better Agents With MorphLLM
I’m an audiophile, which is a nice way to describe someone who spends their children’s college fund on equipment that yields no audible improvement in sound quality. As such, I refused to use wireless headphones for the longest time. The fun thing about wired headphones is when you forget they’re on...
Accelerating life sciences research
Discover how a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, helped OpenAI and Retro Bio engineer more effective proteins for stem cell therapy and longevity research.
Blue J’s approach for scaling fast in complex, regulated domains
Blue J scaled to three countries and more than 3,000 firms thanks to focus, domain depth, and the right OpenAI model.
Building event-driven pipelines with SQS and S3
Learn how to build real-time, event-driven data pipelines directly from your object storage with Amazon SQS and S3.
NVIDIA Releases 6 Million Multi-Lingual Reasoning Dataset
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Mixi reimagines communication with ChatGPT
Discover how MIXI, a leader in digital entertainment and lifestyle services in Japan, uses ChatGPT Enterprise to transform productivity, boost AI adoption across teams, and create a secure environment for innovation.
Redpanda Cloud Summer 2025: Connect everywhere, Iceberg GA in cloud, and more
Our summer update is sizzling with expanded Serverless capabilities, Iceberg topics on across all major clouds, and Redpanda Connect on all deployments. Read on.
Generate Images with Claude and Hugging Face
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Transforming Game Discovery with Instant Play Experiences on Discord
Discord and NVIDIA partner to showcase cloud-streamed gaming experiences on Discord to transform game discovery for players and developers, starting with Fortnite.