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A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon Valley

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Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure.TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures. The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrastructure sta

An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code. When you use a C library directly from Swift, it will look and feel similar to using it from C. That can be useful if you’re following sample code or a tutorial written in C, but it ca

We are releasing Agent Skills for Postgres Best Practices to help AI coding agents write high quality, correct Postgres code.

Life update: I've decided to leave 1X.

The 2025 Go Developer Survey results, focused on developer sentiment towards Go, use cases, challenges, and developer environments.

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Learn how we built Turbopack with incremental computation to scale development and builds to massive Next.js applications.

Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve.Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose, an open-source AI agent developed by Block

Dhirubhai Ambani vs Nusli Wadia, as an example of holding on to political influence as a form of tycoon skill.

Formats over apps.

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers.The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Berlin nigh

D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.

We asked leaders across eBay for the most transformative tech trends to watch in the year ahead. Here’s what they had to say.

The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.

User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems. The post When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Yseop wins the 2026 BIG Innovation Award, recognized for transforming regulatory writing with GenAI The post Yseop Wins 2026 BIG Innovation Award for Transforming Regulatory Writing with Generative AI appeared first on Yseop .

A practical guide to diagnosing database slowdowns and choosing between vertical scaling and Read Replicas based on your workload, budget, and performance bottlenecks.

We’ve released patches for 5 vulnerabilities across devalue , svelte , @sveltejs/kit , and @sveltejs/adapter-node . Here’s what you need to know: Upgrade now If you’re using any of these packages, upgrade them to their corresponding non-vulnerable versions: devalue : 5.6.2 svelte</c

Our attempt at applying two theories of accelerated expertise to the first cohort of Speedrunning the Idea Maze.

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Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.

Why do AI pilots fail to scale in life sciences regulatory teams? Based on our experience supporting AI adoption in regulatory environments worldwide, this article explains what successful teams do differently. The post What Does Successful AI Adoption Look Like in Regulatory Affairs? appeared first on Yseop .

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "a

A redesigned development server, significant rendering performance improvements, and new built-in APIs for working with CSP, fonts, and live content collections.

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Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microso

Revisit everything that happened in Astro last year: new feature releases, ecosystem growth, conference talks, and more!

Or, I only know that the future I am so carefully constructing keeps asking something of me in return

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With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.

TRAE IDE now integrates with Supabase, enabling developers to manage their entire backend infrastructure without leaving the IDE. Browse databases, manage storage, configure auth, and more.