
Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh
Major updates include Automerge 3.0 Beta with improved performance and memory efficiency, a new hybrid Sketchy Calendar concept, collaboration tools for Godot game development, and a refreshed Ink & Switch website featuring new research areas and a custom site engine.

Introducing Stargate UAE
Overview and key features of the newly launched Stargate UAE platform.

Shipping code faster with o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1
Explore how o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1 can accelerate code shipping and enhance development workflows.

OpenAI Deutschland
An overview and insights on OpenAI's presence and initiatives in Germany.

AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention
Researchers developed CAV-MAE Sync, an improved AI model that learns fine-grained audio-visual correspondences from unlabeled videos, enhancing video retrieval and scene classification without human intervention.

Extending the Malbec subsea cable to Southern Brazil
Meta and V.tal are extending the Malbec subsea cable to Porto Alegre, Brazil by 2027, enhancing connectivity and digital infrastructure across Southern Brazil and neighboring South American countries.

Ink Note Q2 2025: Sketchy Calendar
Exploring a hybrid calendar concept that blends the flexibility and personal expression of paper calendars with the functionality and synchronization of digital calendar apps.

New tools and features in the Responses API
Explore the latest enhancements and innovative capabilities introduced in the Responses API for improved integration and performance.

Journey to 1000 models: Scaling Instagram’s recommendation system
An in-depth look at how Instagram scaled its recommendation system to over 1000 machine learning models by developing a model registry, automating model launches, and operationalizing model stability to ensure quality and reliability at scale.
Introducing Stablecoin Financial Accounts in 101 countries
Stripe introduces Stablecoin Financial Accounts in 101 countries, enabling businesses to hold dollar-denominated stablecoins, send and receive fiat and stablecoin payments globally through integrated APIs without code.

Meta’s Full-stack HHVM optimizations for GenAI
Meta optimized its HHVM-based web infrastructure by isolating GenAI inference traffic, increasing thread pools, leveraging JIT caching techniques, and implementing request warm-up and shadow traffic to enhance latency and resource management.

Beyond Query Optimization: Aurora Postgres Connection Pooling with SQLAlchemy & RDSProxy
Explore how integrating AWS RDSProxy with SQLAlchemy enhances Aurora Postgres connection pooling by reducing overhead, minimizing session pinning, and improving scalability and resource efficiency for high-demand applications.