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OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI acquires TBPN

OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN signals a strategic move to scale editorially independent, AI-focused conversations with builders and users, using TBPN's platform to illuminate how AI and its broader impact are evolving in technology and daily life.

4/2/2026
DropboxDropbox

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, our immutable blob store

Layered compaction in Dropbox's Magic Pocket—combining L1/L2/L3 strategies and Live Coder streaming to reclaim space and reduce storage overhead in an exabyte-scale immutable blob store while preserving durability and performance.

4/2/2026
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: Day Zero Launch: Fastest Performance for Gemma 4 on NVIDIA and AMD

Gemma 4 lands on Modular Cloud with MAX-powered, NVIDIA- and AMD-optimized multimodal inference (text, images, video) and a 256K context window, delivering production-ready performance with 15% higher throughput than vLLM on B200.

4/2/2026
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models

Gemma 4 delivers frontier-level, open-model AI with agentic workflows, multimodal capabilities, and edge-ready, on-device performance across a 2B-31B model family under an Apache 2.0 license.

4/2/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

Gradient Labs combines GPT-4.1, GPT-5.4 mini/nano, and a hybrid reasoning architecture with 15+ guardrails to deliver AI account managers for banks, achieving high trajectory accuracy and sub-second latency across regulated SOP-driven customer workflows.

4/1/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

Gradient Labs builds AI account managers that orchestrate compliant, low-latency banking support using OpenAI models (GPT-4.1 to GPT-5.4) with high trajectory accuracy and extensive guardrails.

4/1/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager

Gradient Labs' AI account manager for banks delivers low-latency, high-accuracy, compliant voice support through a hybrid OpenAI-driven platform that orchestrates SOP-driven workflows with guardrails and persistent context across interactions.

4/1/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Accelerating the next phase of AI

OpenAI's $122B funding signals a plan to accelerate AI's next phase by expanding compute and a unified platform with APIs and Codex, driving enterprise and consumer adoption through GPT-5.4 and a future AI superapp.

3/31/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Accelerating the next phase of AI

Explores how OpenAI's $122B funding, scalable compute, and a reinforcing AI flywheel—unifying ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, and a future AI superapp—accelerate enterprise-grade AI deployment and innovation.

3/31/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Accelerating the next phase of AI

OpenAI outlines a capital-backed blueprint to accelerate AI via scalable compute and multi-cloud infrastructure, a unified AI superapp (integrating ChatGPT, Codex, APIs) for rapid enterprise and consumer adoption, and a reinforcing flywheel driving growth and economic impact.

3/31/2026
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Benchtalks #1: Alex Shaw (Terminal-Bench, Harbor) – Building the Benchmark Factory

A concise exploration of Terminal-Bench's rapid score gains, Harbor's emergence as a scalable benchmark factory, and how diverse, verifiable tasks are redefining AI evaluation.

3/31/2026
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Benchtalks #1: Alex Shaw (Terminal-Bench, Harbor) – Building the Benchmark Factory

Benchtalks #1 with Alex Shaw investigates Terminal-Bench and Harbor, showing how high-quality, scalable benchmarking—driven by a benchmark factory, crowd verification, and diverse tasks—accelerates model development and brings evaluation closer to real-world use.

3/31/2026