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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
StripeStripe

Testing the conversion impact of 50+ global payment methods

Experimentation with 50+ global payment methods reveals significant boosts in conversion rates and revenue, highlighting the value of localized payment options, digital wallets, and bank debits to optimize checkout experiences.

4/10/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

30 Minutes With MCP and flyctl

A 30-minute project demonstrating how to build a minimal MCP server for flyctl to enable LLM-driven automation and diagnostics via JSON-based tool calls.

4/10/2025
InstacartInstacart

Instacart Speaker Series with Professor George Gui

Professor George Gui discusses challenges and novel approaches in using large language models for experimental simulations, emphasizing the need to rethink traditional experimental design.

4/10/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI Pioneers Program

An overview of the OpenAI Pioneers Program highlighting its objectives and opportunities.

4/9/2025
Fly.ioFly.io

Our Best Customers Are Now Robots

Fly.io explores how evolving cloud infrastructure designed for developers now increasingly caters to AI-driven automation, emphasizing rapid VM startup, incremental stateful builds, and API integrations to support robotic 'vibe coding' workflows.

4/8/2025
Berkeley AIBerkeley AI

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

PLAID leverages latent diffusion over protein folding model embeddings to simultaneously generate controllable protein sequences and all-atom 3D structures using only sequence data for training, enabling advanced multimodal protein design.

4/8/2025
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: What about the MLIR compiler infrastructure? (Democratizing AI Compute, Part 8)

MLIR is a modular, extensible compiler infrastructure designed to unify AI software frameworks and hardware platforms, facing technical success but also challenges in governance and ecosystem fragmentation amid industry competition.

4/8/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint

An overview of OpenAI's strategy for economic engagement and development within the European Union.

4/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Canva enables creativity with AI

Exploring how Canva leverages AI to enhance creative processes and design capabilities.

4/7/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Bringing intelligence to every workflow

Exploring strategies to integrate intelligence into workflows for enhanced efficiency and productivity.

4/3/2025
SoundCloudSoundCloud

New artist name field on our API

Introduced a new 'metadata_artist' field in the API to clearly differentiate artist names from profile names, improving track metadata accuracy and display.

4/3/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Our response to the UK’s copyright consultation

An analysis of our stance and insights on the UK's copyright consultation process.

4/2/2025