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Engineering blogs & AI research
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How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield
AI Factories are some of the most technologically complex operational environments ever created. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet...
How NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes
Training large-scale AI models on thousands of GPUs is a high-stakes operation where monitoring and automation must be built-in to optimize cluster resiliency...
Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning
Naive byte-range caching can waste gigabytes of origin bandwidth on small requests. We rebuilt our cache architecture in Pingora to coordinate partial fetches automatically, cutting R2 p99 latency in half.
Bringing post-quantum cryptography to geographically fenced key management
Cloudflare's new post-quantum GeoKey Manager protects geographically fenced decryption keys from harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Learn how we redesigned our cryptography stack to support strict data sovereignty in a…
Does Your Model Run on AWS Trainium? Look It Up
Beyond API Compatibility: Building a Tool to Measure the Blast Radius of Library Changes
By Roberto Perez Alcolea , Java Platform Team Quasar connects a proposed API change with observed references in consumer repositories, giving the producer evidence for a release decision At Netflix, shared Java libraries…
Scaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 1
Deploying a trained neural network involves more than translating each operator into a GPU kernel. It is a compilation problem with many legitimate answers. For...
Scaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 2
The Global Performance Tuner is a feature for automatic performance tuning released in NVIDIA TensorRT 11.1. It provides automatic, accuracy-aware and...
Using AI Agents to Teach Robots Like Microduck to Walk in Simulation
Teaching a robot to navigate an obstacle course requires more than a walking policy. It must perceive its surroundings, maintain balance, and adjust its actions...
Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests…
Localizing compliance at scale: Achieving South Korea’s ISMS certification
Cloudflare has achieved South Korea's ISMS certification following an audit across 80 controls. Learn how we localized user consent flows, adapted social sign-up paths at the edge, and validated our global security progr…
Introducing Confidential Computing on Cohere Model Vault
Inside Cohere Model Vault: Building a verifiable confidential AI inference
Importance of cultural context in AI understanding
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Discord Update: October 22, 2026
Here s the Discord Changelog from October 22, 2026, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills
As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers. The post How bug bounty sharpens one re…
PHP2Shell: GitLab helps find and remediate critical PHP flaws
GitLab is not affected by PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). The GitLab application is not written in PHP and does not run it to serve web requests, and our Security team has found no evidence of impact to…
Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models
Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations
Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interac…
Single-tenant Titus: VM-level isolation on a multi-tenant container platform
Samartha Chandrashekar Nick Parker You click play on a Friday night, and in the second that follows, dozens of services answer in milliseconds. Most of them run on Titus, our internal container platform. Titus is, in ess…
How to Read Data into GPU Memory in Python with NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage
GPU applications are processing ever-growing datasets with increasingly powerful accelerators. According to the 2025 Stanford AI Index, compute for notable AI...
Running Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes
AI developers aren’t just running a single model anymore—they’re orchestrating multiple models in parallel, chaining inference calls, and experimenting...
Trends from Money20/20 2026: The rise of “hidden” financial services
As fintech products become increasingly capable, the infrastructure behind them fades into the background. Three trends from Money20/20 show how stablecoins, agents, and always-on money are changing financial services.
Physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
Features
Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation
While foundation models and vision transformers (ViTs) have redefined visual representations, current active learning (AL) strategies for these backbones largely operate at the patch or region level, where annotation req…
Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF
Cloudflare's web application firewall can now correlate an HTTP request with its response. Full transaction detection helps every customer find successful exploits, data exposure, and risky misconfigurations that request…
Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability
Cloudflare has deployed default web application firewall (WAF) protections for newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The rules use request and response signals to stop exploit attempts and prevent…
How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents
Almost 100,000 Commerce.com domains now give AI agents real shopping tools through WebMCP on Cloudflare. Here's how we turned it on across every store at once, while keeping each merchant in control.
Cohere Rerank 5 | More Relevant Context for RAG and Agents
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure
We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub's repositories to Azure. Here's how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently. The post The bridge to agent-scale Git inf…
GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, 18.11.13
App stability at scale with a layered defense
Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistants have changed how fast we can ship. They have not changed how mobile users experience a crash. That gap is the pressure every mobile stability program now operat…
Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.
How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications
Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster
Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories
Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with NVIDIA
Solving a 31-year-old grand challenge in mathematics – the KLS conjecture
For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to understanding the efficie…
Achieve Productive AI Capacity Faster and More Predictably with NVIDIA DSX POD
AI factories turn energy into intelligence. But before an AI workload can produce its first token, operators must bring an interconnected system of compute,...
Design Proteins with RFD4-Proteina Using Reward-Guided Inference-Time Search
Protein design is a search problem. Choose amino acids for an eight-residue protein sequence and more than 25 billion combinations are possible. Choose amino...
Developing an AI Factory Digital Twin with an Agent-Assisted Workflow
Building an AI factory digital twin requires developers to bring site plans, equipment assets, and engineering requirements into a consistent model that teams...
How NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture Secures and Governs AI Agent Workloads at Scale
Autonomous agents can work for hours on complex tasks, accessing files, tools, the internet, and spawning other agents to collaborate with. Executing complex...
Inside NVIDIA Sentry: Secure AI Agents at Runtime
An AI agent can complete its assignment and still cross a security boundary. Recent incidents show that agents can circumvent security controls while using...
Announcements
Introducing Amazon ECS Gateway: A fully-managed ingress solution for ECS services
Try Amazon ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that simplifies ingress networking for containerized workloads by dynamically provisioning and managing the necessary infrastructure on your behalf, with all resources…