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Tree Appreciator

Tool: Tree Appreciator Another game experiment with Claude. This one used the default Claude iPhone app (chat mode, not Claude Code mode), where I prompted Claude Opus 5.5 Max with: Build a three js game called "Tree…

The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge: Building, Aligning, and Monitoring at scale

By Emma Yanyang Kong, JJ Tan, Ishan Gupta, Lars Olds, Claire Campbell, David Fagnan, Ratna Kavuri, Rohan Gosain, Veli Balin, Minsu Jang, Louis Garcia Introduction Any team generating text with an LLM at scale hits the…

Reliable GPU compute for large training & inference jobs

How we detect failing GPUs and network fabric, remediate machines automatically, and let long-running jobs survive hardware loss. Authors: Nick Rutigliano, Argha C, Samartha Chandrashekar Open Netflix, and the home…

Preparing for the 2026 US midterms

Earlier this year, we shared an update on our election safeguards. Here, we outline how we’ve continued to strengthen these safeguards ahead of this year’s US midterms.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and…

Research@ 2026: 10 ways we're amplifying human ingenuity

General Science

Putting Earth AI to work: Geospatial agents for our planet's biggest challenges

Earth AI

Analyzing technical documents with Deep Review

General Science

HiRO-ACEv2: Simulating extreme weather at 3 km resolution for a fraction of the cost

SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours

With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.

Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.

Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore

Anthropic has opened an office in Singapore and signed an MOU with the country’s government to advance safe, responsible AI adoption.

How Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology

Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.

How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.

The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.

Linux creator and longtime lead maintainer Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that The post Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers…

Anthropic 'SneakPeek' Flaw Is a Silent Zero-Click Threat

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

RTX 5090 vs M5 Ultra: Which AI Powerhouse Wins?

Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio is shipping, so here is how it compares to NVIDIA's RTX 5090 for running AI models locally. wTopics covered: - M5 Ultra vs RTX 5090 specs for local LLMs - Qwen3.8-27B benchmark: prompt…

😸 WATCH: What If Apps Didn’t Need Code?

Orange Pi O1 SBC features 16 TOPS SOPHGO BM1688 AI SoC, supports 4G/5G cellular connectivity

Orange Pi O1 is a new single board computer (SBC) based on the somewhat older SOPHGO BM1688 octa-core Cortex-A53 SoC with a built-in 16 TOPS AI accelerator/TPU, and support for decoding up to sixteen 1080p30 video…