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Try the New "Rust-free" Version of Prisma ORM (Early Access)
Try the early-access Rust-free version of Prisma ORM and learn how the new TypeScript/WASM architecture improves performance, deployments, and runtime compatibility.
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
Welcoming Llama Guard 4 on Hugging Face Hub
Introducing AutoRound: Intel’s Advanced Quantization for LLMs and VLMs
Announcing Vitess 22
The Vitess maintainers are happy to announce the release of version 22.0.0, along with version 2.15.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator.This release is the first to benefit from a 6-month-long development cycle, after our recent change to the release cadence. Version 22.0.0 comes with significant enhancements to query serving and cluster management.These changes have allowed Vitess to be more performant and easier to operate compared to version 21.This blog post highlights some of the major chan
Working With Data in Large Teams
Scale your data workflows without slowing down your team. This guide helps engineering leads adopt CI for database changes, define clear ownership, and balance velocity with safety using proven patterns like expand-contract and schema validation.
Gateway - FQDN Filtering For Gateway Egress Policies
Cloudflare One administrators can now control which egress IP is used based on a destination's fully qualified domain name (FDQN) within Gateway Egress policies. Host, Domain, Content Categories, and Application selectors are now available in the Gateway Egress policy builder in beta. During the beta period, you can use these selectors with traffic on-ramped to Gateway with the WARP client, proxy endpoints (commonly deployed with PAC files), or Cloudflare Browser Isolation. For WARP client supp
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