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AirbnbAirbnb

Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel

Airbnb migrated their extensive JVM monorepo from Gradle to Bazel over 4.5 years, significantly improving build speed, reliability, and developer experience through automated build file generation, remote build execution, and sophisticated dependency management.

8/13/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Scaling accounting capacity with OpenAI

Basis leverages advanced OpenAI models, including GPT-5, to build AI agents that automate and enhance accounting workflows, enabling firms to save time and expand advisory capacity through improved reasoning, task delegation, and transparency.

8/12/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Newsom on harmonized regulation

OpenAI urges Governor Newsom to lead harmonized AI regulations aligning state, federal, and global standards to foster innovation, ensure safety, and maintain US leadership in democratic AI development.

8/12/2025
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Pretraining Data Filtering for Open-Weight AI Safety

A comprehensive study demonstrating that scalable, multi-stage pretraining data filtering effectively reduces dangerous knowledge in open-weight large language models with minimal performance tradeoffs and tamper-resistant safeguards.

8/12/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io

Exploring gamified AI model evaluation through a one-click deploy of AI Town on Fly.io, highlighting dynamic behavioral insights beyond traditional benchmarks.

8/11/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

The Future Isn't Model Agnostic

AI product success depends on deeply understanding and specializing a single model rather than pursuing model agnosticism amid converging benchmark performances.

8/8/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

How Cursor uses GPT-5

An overview of how Cursor integrates and leverages the advanced capabilities of GPT-5 to enhance its functionalities.

8/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing GPT-5

GPT-5 is OpenAI's most advanced AI model, delivering state-of-the-art performance across coding, writing, health, and multimodal understanding with improved reasoning, safety, and reliability features for diverse real-world applications.

8/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

How Amgen uses GPT-5

Amgen leverages GPT-5 to enhance research, safety, and business solutions through advanced AI integration.

8/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

GPT-5 System Card

GPT-5 introduces a multi-model system with a real-time router optimizing model selection for faster, more accurate responses, enhanced safety, and improved performance in writing, coding, and health domains.

8/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

From hard refusals to safe-completions: toward output-centric safety training

GPT-5 introduces safe-completion training, a technique that enhances AI safety by focusing on output safety and maximizing helpfulness, particularly improving handling of dual-use prompts compared to refusal-based approaches.

8/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

First look at GPT-5

An initial overview highlighting the key features and advancements of GPT-5 based on OpenAI's latest research update.

8/7/2025