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StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents

CWE-bench v2: More coverage, quality, and transparency

Palette: teaching a small model to build decks in your design language

Transformers Model Integration Contracts

F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale

Facebook Feature Framework (F3) is Meta s framework for authoring, compiling, and serving the machine learning features underlying ads ranking models, where a single request can require more than 20,000 features. We firs…

Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS & Voice Agents

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agilit…

Accelerating engineering for the physical world

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.

Online Dense Reinforcement Learning with Planning-Grounding Agent for UI Navigation on Live iOS Apps

While frontier vision-language models demonstrate strong capabilities in user interface (UI) navigation, their high inference costs prohibit everyday use. Conversely, smaller models trained via supervised fine-tuning (SF…

AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent…

How we halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and ha…

Modernizing the Video Playback Experience at Discord

This is the story of how we assessed and refactored two video players into one, cut the player code each product maintained by up to 94%, and swapped to the new player without disruption to any users.

10 questions to ask any software vendor about sovereignty

Sovereignty is moving from buzzword to buying criterion. The European Commission’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would set assurance levels for the cloud and AI services public authorities buy, defining wh…

Build World Models for Interactive Simulation with NVIDIA Cosmos

Physical AI developers working with world models face two distinct challenges: adapting models to their sensors, tasks, and data, and getting those models into...

Diagnose Distributed AI Workload Failures with NVIDIA Attribution

In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms. A GPU or fabric event may surface as NCCL errors on other ranks, scheduler state...

Keep Distributed Training Running with Automated Workload Recovery

As distributed AI training scales, failures across hardware and software dependencies increasingly disrupt training progress, making fast, reliable recovery...

Making Kubernetes AI-Ready for NVIDIA Vera Rubin on Day One

Configuring and optimizing Kubernetes for new GPU hardware such as NVIDIA Vera Rubin is complex and error-prone. Drivers, kernels, runtimes, networking,...

Support New AI Frameworks Faster Using NVIDIA Workload Map

NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform brings together technologies to help the ecosystem design, build, and operate more efficient AI factories, including open source,...

OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization

OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll to advise on responsible AI for national security modernization, cyber resilience, and collaboration with U.S. allies.

Introducing the Grid Protectors Program

OpenAI’s Grid Protectors Program will work with utilities to help future compute campuses support grid reliability and protect consumer electricity costs.

LifeVal

Introducing LifeVal, a benchmark measuring how well AI helps people complete everyday tasks, from finding childcare to managing finances and government paperwork.

Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI

OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.

Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex

Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.

Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties

OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.

Scaling Git at OpenAI

How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.

Game Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT

GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 14th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme SHIFT. Change gears, swap perspectives, bend reality, or just press a certain key. The post Game Off 2026: T…

4 real? Tracking exploitation and patching of eMudhra’s weak keys

Four, just four: that’s the key to break into any unpatched connection on the Internet that is using eMudhra certificates. Here’s how we quickly patched Cloudflare, what evidence we can see of attempted exploitation, and…

Cloudflare services for private origins is now generally available

Public traffic to private origins, with WAF, bot management, caching, and Workers, is now available to every customer with Cloudflare One connectivity.

Cohere Advances C$4 Billion AI Commitment in Canada, Creating 1,500+ Jobs

Speeding up planning decisions with AI

Google DeepMind and UK government work together to reduce planning assessment times

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Does ‘eval’ in the workspace path change what your agent does?

Your eval might be telling the agent it s a test before the agent reads a single instruction. Eval tools need a fresh folder for every run, and the easiest way to get one is a temp directory with a random name like /tmp/…

From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence

Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation unde…

Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo

Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference...

Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces...

How to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path...

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

Community safety report and new protections for teens

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

Fair use benefits everyone

OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Stripe on Stripe: What we learned moving $1B in vendor payments to Global Payouts

In early 2026, we began moving our vendor payments to Global Payouts, Stripe’s product for paying recipients in 160+ countries. New-market setup fell from six weeks to one, with a 99.9% payout success rate. Here’s what w…

Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants

Cloudflare mitigated over 8,200 DDoS attacks per hour in Q3 2026 as attackers shifted to shorter, high-frequency strikes. Explore the latest threat data, including the collapse of CLDAP vectors and the impact of recent b…

Who Gets to Build the Frontier for AI

Financial Research Assistant on AWS

GitLab Orbit: Find vulnerability blast radius without the manual hunt

A critical vulnerability needs a fix and a map. The fix is usually fast. Finding where the vulnerable component lives, who owns it, and whether it s exposed to the Internet is what costs you time. Most security teams pie…

GitLab Orbit is GA: Higher agent accuracy, lower token cost

An agent’s true cost isn’t only the tokens it burns. It’s the review that calls your code “safe to merge” after seeing the diff, but without any context on the pipeline. We call that artificial confidence, not artificial…

Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready