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Engineering blogs & AI research
A reading room from engineering teams and AI labs: titles, short feed excerpts, and links to the originals. For my own essays, explore the writing archive.
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ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation
Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard
Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight
Accelerating Reinforcement Learning Weight Refit with the Reshard Collective
During reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, training trajectories are generated on the fly by running inference with the current policy model. For...
Speed Up Image Generation with FLUX 3 Image Klein on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
When deploying diffusion models in design tools, image editors, and visual production workflows, developers must account for inference latency. Generating an...
Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems
OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.
Safe and Efficient Multi-Epoch Embedding Training
Authors: Shruthi Hariharan | Machine Learning Engineer II; Konish Dutta | Machine Learning Engineer II; Abhinav Naikawadi | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Zhihua Zhang | Machine Learning Engineer II; Rakshita Nagalla | S…
Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG
Maximum inner product search (MIPS) sits at the core of recommendation systems, search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Given a query vector, MIPS systems search within a database of millions of candidate key v…
Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)
AI agents act for millions, but servers see intermediaries that strip user visibility. This post defines the problem space and introduces a collaborative approach to safely identifying, allowing, and managing this automa…
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
Nitro’s Biggest Year Yet: A Look Back at 2026
Nitro had a big year. Catch up on everything Nitro added in 2026, from new in-app perks like 1GB file uploads and Display Name Styles, to partner rewards like access to 50 games with XBOX Game Pass.
How AI-assisted development helped us build the new Dropbox experience
From sharing features across web and desktop to testing the details customers depend on, this is how AI-assisted development helped our engineers deliver the updated Dropbox experience.
How two engineer side projects became the agent taking action inside Dropbox
Two side projects explored a new way to get work done with files already in Dropbox. Here’s how engineers brought them together and turned those experiments into a new customer experience.
Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture
GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works. The post Inside GitHub s new Git storage architecture appeared first on The GitHub Blog…
Accessibility statements now have a home on GitHub
GitHub now highlights ACCESSIBILITY.md files and helps maintainers document accessibility goals, known barriers, supported environments, contributor expectations, and reporting processes. The post Accessibility statement…
New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation
A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.
Your best AX fixes are hiding in agent trajectories
All five agent runs produced a working script, and nothing in the eval score looked wrong. The trajectories told a different story. Every run read a DLL as raw bytes to find plugin names, and three scripts would quietly…
Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit
AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It conv…
Configure, Certify, and Operate Kubernetes GPU Clusters with NVIDIA DSX OS
One underperforming GPU can slow an entire distributed training job. The node may pass basic health checks and show normal utilization, leaving operators to...
Five Ways NVIDIA Co-Design Maximizes the Value of Every Byte in the AI Factory
In an AI factory, high bandwidth memory (HBM)is the fastest, most expensive, and most contested memory tier. Every byte spent on a redundant weight copy, an...
Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization
Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates
Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex
Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.
Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research
Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure
OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
Analyze your Stripe data directly with your agent
You can now use natural language to create an investor slide deck highlighting where your business outperformed in the previous quarter, or build a custom dashboard to understand why your Stripe revenue changed.
Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
You can now migrate existing Apache Hive datasets in Amazon S3 to fully managed Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 Tables, with no pipelines to build or compute to provision, while production workloads keep running.
See the agents, set the terms: New visibility and control for personal agents
Personal AI agents have changed how users interact with the web, blurring the lines between automated and human traffic. Learn how Cloudflare gives site owners visibility and control to manage personal agent access.
Cohere retrieval models on OpenRouter
Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out
How NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint Coordinates AI Agents to Investigate Production Issues
A Siemens report estimates that unplanned downtime costs an average large plant in the surveyed sectors $253 million per year. Whether investigating a failed...
How NVIDIA Uses AI Agents to Streamline AI Factory Operations
As GPU clusters scale, operations span compute, network, hardware, and scheduling. Site reliability engineers (SREs) often have to examine multiple dashboards...
NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support
As artificial intelligence and accelerated computing continue to push the boundaries of what's possible, the latest NVIDIA CUDA release arrives to unlock...
Use NVIDIA NeMo to Turn Agent Failures into Tests and Harness Fixes
Turn production evidence into prioritized issues and custom evaluations that help you improve prompts, tools, models, memory, skills, and harness code. When you...
A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
DevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 Sol
DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.
Introducing Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Scaling Model Evaluation at Pinterest with Ray (Part 4)
Vishnu Arun | Tech Lead, Feature Importance Platform; Anderson Lam | Sr Software Engineer; Andrew Qiu | Machine Learning Engineer I; Helena Xu | Data Scientist I; Tianyou Wang | Data Scientist II Introduction In our mult…
Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation
State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention-based counterparts.…
Introducing Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities
Zero Wire on Cloudflare Radar pairs plain-language briefings with global attack telemetry and remediation steps. Triage critical CVEs faster and decide how to protect your infrastructure.
Leading Open AI Models Now Available in Model Vault
Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
Discord Gift Cards: The Easiest Holiday Gift on Your List
Discord gift cards are now available in stores and online at select retailers, making it easy to buy things on Discord like Nitro, new looks in the Shop, and more.
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
Louis Erbkamm built the first prototype in his free time. Now GitHub Copilot helps him maintain it alone. The post Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world appeared first on The GitHub Blog .