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OpenAI News

Governance of superintelligence

Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence—future AI systems dramatically more capable than even AGI.

Safety & Alignment
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PlanetScale Blog

Character sets and collations in MySQL

Character sets and collations are fundamentally important concepts to understand when dealing with string columns in MySQL. A slight misunderstanding of either can lead to poor performance or unexpected errors when inserting data. A character set defines the characters allowed to go in a column. A collation is a set of rules for comparing those characters. Each character set can have multiple collations, but a collation may only belong to one character set. Character sets in MySQL MySQL supports

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Vercel Blog

Vercel + Sanity: Innovating on a faster, more collaborative Web

We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership with . Sanity is the modern content management system companies use to meet the realities of ever-increasing content complexity and customer expectations.Sanity—the Composable Content Cloud Giving developers the tools to create at the moment of inspiration is core to both Vercel and Sanity’s DNA. From enabling to the recent co-development of , we aim to challenge the status quo through joint innovation. Sanity Studio to be embedded in a Next.js

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PlanetScale Blog

MariaDB vs. MySQL

MariaDB began as a fork of MySQL. Since then, it has evolved into an entirely separate database. In this Tech Talk, we go over some of the main differences between MariaDB and MySQL, why you might choose one over the other, scaling options, and how Vitess fits into the picture.

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