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OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Codex

An overview of Codex, a powerful AI model that translates natural language into code.

5/16/2025
StripeStripe

Using AI to optimize payments performance with the Payments Intelligence Suite

Explore how Stripe's Payments Intelligence Suite leverages advanced AI models to enhance payment authorization, reduce fraud and disputes, and provide actionable analytics for maximizing revenue.

5/15/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell

Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the Broad Institute developed PUPS, an AI-powered computational method that predicts the subcellular location of any protein within single human cells, enhancing disease diagnosis and biological understanding without extensive lab work.

5/15/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

AI powers Expedia’s marketing evolution

Exploring how AI technologies are transforming marketing strategies at Expedia.

5/14/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

MIT researchers reveal that vision-language models struggle with negation in queries, impacting accuracy in real-world applications but show improvement after retraining with negation-inclusive datasets.

5/14/2025
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

AlphaEvolve leverages Gemini-powered large language models and an evolutionary framework to autonomously discover, optimize, and verify advanced algorithms, significantly boosting efficiency across Google's computing ecosystem and advancing mathematical problem-solving.

5/14/2025
GitHubGitHub

GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it

GitHub revamped its Issues search by implementing nested queries and boolean operators using a new abstract syntax tree parser and Elasticsearch integration, while ensuring backward compatibility, performance, and user experience.

5/13/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing HealthBench

Introducing HealthBench, a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize healthcare data analysis and management.

5/12/2025
SpotifySpotify

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025

An in-depth analysis of the Spotify outage on April 16, 2025, caused by a misordered Envoy filter triggering crashes and Kubernetes memory limit issues, and the steps taken to resolve and prevent future incidents.

5/9/2025
GitHubGitHub

Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components

Exploring how accessibility often gets overlooked in design system components and introducing GitHub's Primer A11y Preset annotations to seamlessly integrate accessibility details within components to improve design and development workflows.

5/9/2025
GitHubGitHub

Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components

Exploring advanced techniques for creating custom annotations in design systems to enhance accessibility and streamline the design-to-development workflow using tools like Figma’s Code Connect.

5/9/2025
ChromiumChromium

Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome

Chrome leverages on-device machine learning to detect and warn users about deceptive or spammy notifications on Android, enhancing privacy and user control without sending notification data off device.

5/8/2025