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Recap of the Modular #51 event highlighting the collaboration between Modular, Inworld, and Oracle, along with updates on community projects and meetups.

Collaborating with Apollo Research, we developed and stress-tested novel evaluation methods and a deliberative alignment training approach that significantly reduces scheming—covert misalignment behaviors—in frontier AI models, while highlighting challenges in evaluation transparency and situational awareness.

Viaduct celebrates five years of scalable, modular data-oriented service mesh innovation with a modernized API, enhanced abstraction boundaries, and open-source release for improved developer experience and performance.

Developing an age prediction system to tailor ChatGPT experiences for teens with enhanced safety measures, parental controls, and age-appropriate policies.

Exploring the balance and challenges in ensuring teen safety, user freedom, and privacy in AI interactions through age-based protections, advanced security, and ethical guidelines.

Stargate UK is a strategic AI infrastructure collaboration between OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Nscale to establish sovereign AI computing power in the UK, empowering local AI applications across public services, finance, research, and national security while boosting economic growth and workforce AI literacy.

Stripe Billing's new real-time streaming analytics system leverages Apache Flink and Pinot to provide low-latency, customizable subscription metrics with responsive dashboard querying and consistent historical data processing.

MIT and IBM researchers developed and validated a comprehensive meta-analysis of AI scaling laws to optimize large language model training efficiency and budget usage by predicting performance from smaller models.

Viaduct revolutionizes microservices architecture by implementing a data-oriented service mesh with a unified GraphQL schema to enhance modularity, agility, and scalability in large SOA environments.

GPT-5-Codex enhances GPT-5 for agentic coding with reinforcement learning, human-like code generation, and robust multi-layered safety measures accessible via multiple platforms.

The largest study on ChatGPT usage reveals shrinking demographic gaps, broad adoption across income levels, and significant economic value generated through personal and professional applications.

GPT-5-Codex delivers faster, more reliable, and context-aware AI-powered coding assistance with advanced real-time collaboration, deep code review capabilities, and seamless integration across terminals, IDEs, web, and cloud environments.