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OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 models can process a million tokens and solve coding problems better than ever

OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 family enhances coding abilities at a lower cost, outperforming predecessors and offering up to one million tokens of context processing. The move challenges competitors with more affordable models tailored to diverse enterprise needs... read more  

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Microsoft AI CEO: ‘It’s Smarter to Be 6 Months Behind’ — Here’s Why

Microsoftplays it cool with an "off-frontier" AI strategy, sidestepping heavyweights likeOpenAI. It's a cost-cutting, reliability-boosting move. Even with deep pockets sunk intoOpenAI,they're building pint-sized brainiacs with theirPhi project. The grand plan? Stand-alone strength by 2030... read more  

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Gemini 2.5 Flash with ‘thinking budget’ rolling out to devs, Gemini app

Gemini 2.5 Flashbursts into the scene with a sparkling new feature: a "thinking budget." This lets developers fine-tune token-based reasoning anywhere from 0 to a whopping 24,576, cranking up accuracy without gouging your pockets. Catch it in preview onGoogle AI StudioandVertex AI. The model handles.. read more  

Gemini 2.5 Flash with ‘thinking budget’ rolling out to devs, Gemini app
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Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

Creating a degree19odd-power polynomial with a linear coefficient of-19is not your usual algebra homework. Get cozy withT19(x), because factorization demands finesse here. Aim to break it down into at least three stubbornly irreducible pieces. The trick? Jugglingnon-linear factorsto dodge any slip i.. read more  

Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
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What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?

Picking the right AI model forGitHub Copilotis like matchmaking. It's about the project's quirks, and balancing razor-sharp accuracy with processing muscle... read more  

What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?
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Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare

AutoRAG in open beta simplifies how developers integrate context-aware AI into their applications by setting up a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline on Cloudflare. With AutoRAG, developers can efficiently fetch information from their own data sources to improve AI responses using .. read more  

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The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos

ChatGPT's hot-off-the-press models, o3 and the nimble o4-mini, have a sneaky new trick: they eyeball images and call out locations, which, let’s face it,freaks some privacy advocates out.The real gossip, though? O3 has a knack for naming places with a flair for detail. It even nailed a Williamsburg .. read more  

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos
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Why are AI companies so bad at naming their models?

GPT-4o, Llama-4, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Why can’t AI companies come up with compelling model names?.. read more  

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An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System

3FSfrom DeepSeek dazzles with slick tricks, includingCRAQfor ironclad consistency and a cleverChunkEnginebuilt inRust. It sprints through scalable reads, but gets tripped up bywrite latency. InZipfian workloads, that bottleneck might just drive you bananas... read more  

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When Do Retry, Backoff, and Jitter Work?

Retries, meet your nemesis: server overload. Just hammering the "try again" button doesn’t solve it. Enterexponential backoffandjitter, the dynamic duo for taming sudden traffic spikes. But don’t pop the champagne just yet. When fresh requests keep pushing past capacity, this strategy crumbles, reve.. read more  

When Do Retry, Backoff, and Jitter Work?