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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 20 Aug.
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Open the source for the full engineering note.
GitLab Secrets Manager adds ESO, Terraform, API support
Today, you might maintain separate secret stores for CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform. However, that leaves multiple tools to manage, access models to keep in sync, and audit trails to correlate when something goes wrong. GitLab Secrets Manager now supports External Secrets Operator (ESO) and Terraf...
Confidential AI for GitLab Self-Hosted
Your developers want AI coding agents. Your source code is regulated IP that can't be sent to a third-party AI service, and your compliance team has said so in writing. The usual escape hatch, standing up your own GPU cluster and running the models yourself, means buying scarce hardware, hiring a te...
Find, analyze, and collaborate on user sessions in Datadog Session Replay
See how Datadog Session Replay unites session discovery, AI analysis, and team collaboration in a single workspace.
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work! Muse Spark 1.2 is a coding-focused update to Muse Spark 1.1, with impr...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post ) and another attack enabled by Irregular : Irregular, one of our...
Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports
We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge reports.
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking
Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequence learning for ads recommendations, we showed how modeling the order and timi...
HCP Terraform is the control plane for AI-driven infrastructure
AI agents author and run Terraform on their own. HCP Terraform makes autonomy accountable: provenance, policy, identity, isolation, and audit.
How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
The Agent Access Model
The Agent Access Model proposes a new architecture to secure task-scoped agents using strict identity brokering, continuous mediation, and stateful trust.
How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
We built Cloudflare OS to equip our teams to safely rethink how they get work done with AI. The platform brings together the best of our technologies, from our Compute primitives to our Zero Trust suite. This post walks through our journey to give our users the best AI tools available.
The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy
In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
This Month in Datadog - July 2026
Watch July’s This Month in Datadog for in-depth conversations with Datadog product leaders about Bits Release, Bits Testing, Bits Chat, and more.
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests. The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Beyond VLAs: How World Action Models Reshape Robot Manipulation
A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene...
Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
Generate Trajectories, Reasoning Traces, and Auto-Labels with NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data...
DDIA 2nd Edition Excerpt: On Scalability
Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini's scalability considerations for designing data-intensive applications -- from the second edition of the Designing Data-Intensive Applications book
Fragments: August 4
There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face. This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorized access to data in other organizations. ...
Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve Mobile
We're working to more closely match your mobile and desktop experiences, including changes to server icons and the chat bar. (Did we mention Ash, the OG dark theme, is back?)
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.