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Reddit Migrates Comment Backend from Python to Go Microservice to Halve Latency
Reddit has rebuilt its core backend, migrating Comments, Accounts, Posts, and Subreddits from a legacy Python monolith to Go microservices. The migration improves performance, halves critical write latency, and modernizes the platform for future scalability while preserving correctness across multiple datastores.
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OpenAI DevDay 2025 Introduces GPT-5 Pro API, Agent Kit, and More
At OpenAI's DevDay 2025, AgentKit and models GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 were unveiled, enabling interactive software experiences directly within ChatGPT. This shift towards "apps inside ChatGPT" fosters collaboration and commercialization in conversations. Enhanced self-hosting options and robust SDKs empower developers and streamline workflows, positioning OpenAI at the forefront of AI innovation.
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Microsoft Announces Open-Source Agent Framework to Simplify AI Agent Development
Microsoft has announced the preview release of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence agents for developers across all skill levels, as reported in official blog posts from the company's development teams.
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Hugging Face Releases Trackio, a Lightweight Open-Source Experiment Tracking Library
Hugging Face has introduced Trackio, a new open-source Python library for experiment tracking designed to be lightweight, transparent, and easy to integrate. Built as a drop-in replacement for Weights & Biases (wandb), Trackio offers local dashboards by default and seamless syncing with Hugging Face Spaces for sharing and collaboration.
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Roblox Open-Sources AI System to Detect Conversations Potentially Harmful to Kids
Roblox Sentinel is an AI system designed to detect early signs of potential child endangerment for further analysis and investigation. Implemented as a Python library, Sentinel uses contrastive learning to handle highly imbalanced datasets that often challenge traditional classifiers and can be applied to a wide range of use cases.
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Google Launched LangExtract, a Python Library for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text
Google has introduced LangExtract, an open-source Python library designed to help developers extract structured information from unstructured text using large language models such as the Gemini models.
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OpenAI Announces Generalist ChatGPT Agent to Take on Excel, PowerPoint, and Chrome
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent merges advanced browsing and summarization for seamless data handling. Developers can now generate editable spreadsheets and presentations with simple prompts, integrating outputs directly into productivity tools. With impressive accuracy and connectivity, it enhances workflow efficiency while automating complex tasks, heralding a new era in AI-driven productivity.
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Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction
Hugging Face has launched its Reachy Mini robots, now available for order. Designed for AI developers, researchers, and enthusiasts, the robots offer an exciting opportunity to experiment with human-robot interaction and AI applications.
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Docker Launches Hardened Base Images
Docker has launched its Docker Hardened Images (DHI), a security-focused range of base images that reduce vulnerabilities by up to 95%. Built using a distroless approach, these minimal images eliminate unnecessary components, offering automatic patching and compatibility with existing Dockerfiles. Ideal for regulated environments, DHI enhances software supply chain security and transparency.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Code SDK to Power AI-Paired Programming
Anthropic has launched Claude Code SDK, a new toolkit that extends the reach of its code assistant, Claude, far beyond the chat interface. Designed for integration into modern developer workflows, the SDK offers a suite of tools for TypeScript, Python, and the command line, enabling advanced automation of code review, refactoring, and transformation tasks.
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Google Releases LMEval, an Open-Source Cross-Provider LLM Evaluation Tool
LMEval aims to help AI researchers and developers compare the performance of different large language models. Designed to be accurate, multimodal, and easy to use, LMEval has already been used to evaluate major models in terms of safety and security.
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Meta Open-Sources Pyrefly, a High-Performance Python Type Checker in Rust
Currently in alpha, Pyrefly is a new open-source Python type checker developed by Meta in Rust for maximum performance. Inspired by tools like Pyre, Pyright, and MyPy, Pyrefly is intended to replace the OCaml-based Pyre type checker previously used for Instagram's codebase.
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QCon London 2025: How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton, staff engineer at Man Group, presented “How to Build a Database Without a Server” at QCon London 2025. Seaton demonstrated how they migrated an older hedge fund trading system application using a cluster farm that was difficult to maintain to an application using a serverless database and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
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Radical AI Releases TorchSim: a PyTorch-Native Engine for Next-Generation Atomistic Simulations
Radical AI has announced the release of TorchSim, a next-generation atomistic simulation engine built natively in PyTorch and designed for the MLIP (machine-learned interatomic potentials) era.
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Amazon Unveils Nova Act SDK and Expands Access to Advanced AI Models
Amazon has announced an expansion of its generative AI capabilities with the introduction of nova.amazon.com, a platform designed to give developers easier access to its foundation models. This includes the newly unveiled Amazon Nova Act, an AI model specifically trained to execute actions within web browsers.