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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.
Cohere on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
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Introducing HELMET: Holistically Evaluating Long-context Language Models
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OpenAI announces nonprofit commission advisors
OpenAI is appointing four new advisors to help inform OpenAI’s philanthropic efforts.
Our updated Preparedness Framework
Sharing our updated framework for measuring and protecting against severe harm from frontier AI capabilities.
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.
Make More Closet Space! Nitro Members Can Now Keep Avatar Decoration Quest Rewards for Longer
With Nitro, your Quest rewards don’t fade—hold onto exclusive decorations long after the adventure ends.
Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition 🤖
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4M Models Scanned: Protect AI + Hugging Face 6 Months In
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Visual Salamandra: Pushing the Boundaries of Multimodal Understanding
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BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents
BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents.
How to Use Discord’s In-Game Overlay to Talk While Playing on PC
Discord’s In-Game Overlay lets you join voice and video calls, see who’s talkin’, and stream your gameplay without ever having to alt-tab out of your current match! Learn how it works and how you can customize it to your liking.
30 Minutes With MCP and flyctl
I wrote this post on our internal message board, and then someone asked, “why is this an internal post and not on our blog”, so now it is. well, Cursor built I built the most basic MCP server for flyctl I could think of. It took 30 minutes. MCP, for those unaware, is the emerging standard protocol f...
OpenAI Pioneers Program
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Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data
Explore how Discord supercharged dbt with a tailored solution designed for performance, developer productivity, and data quality.
Hugging Face and Cloudflare Partner to Make Real-Time Speech and Video Seamless with FastRTC
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Wicked Saints Turns Players into IRL Superheroes with the Help of e.l.f. Beauty and Discord
First-of-its-kind gaming platform, World Reborn, launches an 8-week limited run to empower players toward real-life impact through brand-led missions.
Our Best Customers Are Now Robots
We’re Fly.io, a developer-focused public cloud. We turn Docker containers into hardware-isolated virtual machines running on our own metal around the world. We spent years coming up with a developer experience we were proud of. But now the robots are taking over, and they don’t care. It’s weird to s...
Arabic Leaderboards: Introducing Arabic Instruction Following, Updating AraGen, and More
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Canva enables creativity with AI
A conversation with Cameron Adams, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Canva.
OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint
Today, OpenAI is sharing the EU Economic Blueprint—a set of proposals to help Europe seize the promise of artificial intelligence, drive sustainable economic growth across the region, and ensure that AI is developed and deployed by Europe, in Europe, for Europe.
Welcome Llama 4 Maverick & Scout on Hugging Face
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Journey to 1 Million Gradio Users!
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Discord Patch Notes: April 3, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
The NLP Course is becoming the LLM Course
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Efficient Request Queueing – Optimizing LLM Performance
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