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GLM-5.3: The Post-Training Revolution That's Reshaping AI Development

GLM-5.3: The Post-Training Revolution That's Reshaping AI Development How Z.ai Proved That Training Methods Matter More Than Model Size Published: September 9, 2026 | Reading time: 8 minutes In August 2026, Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a model that defied the conventional wisdom of AI development. With 743 billion parameters—identical to its predecessor GLM-5.2—the model achieved a 50% improvement in programming capabilities and topped global cybersecurity benchmarks, all without changing

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OpenAI’s $122 Billion Funding Round Shows Why Its Scale Matters to Businesses

OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation, according to its March 31, 2026 announcement. The company also says it has reached $2 billion in monthly revenue, a sharp increase from the $1 billion per quarter it reported generating by the end of 2024. For businesses using ChatGPT or OpenAI’s developer products, the immediate takeaway is not that every AI initiative will suddenly become cheaper or easier. It is that one of the sector’s central providers i

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: The Native Multimodal Model That's Breaking Speed Records

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: The Native Multimodal Model That's Breaking Speed Records How DeepSeek Achieved 420 Tokens/Second Without Sacrificing Accuracy Published: September 9, 2026 | Reading time: 10 minutes On September 8, 2026, DeepSeek quietly launched a beta test for V4.1 Flash, an intermediate model with the identifier deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910. The model name itself reveals the urgency—this beta expires on September 10, giving developers just 48 hours to test it. What ma

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Hi, I'm Divy. I Build AI Systems That Don't Hallucinate (Most of the Time).

👋 Hey, Dev.to! I'm Divy — a backend developer who fell down the AI rabbit hole and never quite climbed back out. LangChain. Then LangGraph. Then CrewAI. Then AutoGen. I studied every type of memory. I built RAG pipelines. I wrote prompts that were longer than some of my actual code files. The LLM still hallucinated. Then I realized something that changed how I think about AI: Frameworks are plumbing. They connect pipes. But if the water is dirty, better pipes won't give you clean water. I'm h

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🐾 Meet EchoedWild — A Wildlife Project I'm Building

Hey DEV! 👋 I'm excited to share a project I've been building: EchoedWild 🐾🌎 EchoedWild is a wildlife education and conservation platform focused on making information about animals, endangered species, and conservation more accessible and engaging for students, educators, and wildlife enthusiasts. I've been building the project around modern web development, with a focus on performance, accessibility, clean UI, and a great user experience. HTML, CSS & JavaScript Git & GitHub Cloudflare APIs a

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Get ready for iPhone Duo

Start getting ready for iPhone Duo today. Watch new videos, sign up for Group Labs, and take part in Q&As on the Apple Developer Forums. Explore now

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App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence, the Foundation Models framework, design updates, new App Store features, and more. Download the Xcode 27 Release Candidate. Build your apps and games using the latest SDKs, test with TestFlight, and submit for review to the App Store. Optimize yo

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There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way

New AirPods Pro with cameras were thankfully not announced at the September Apple event. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to the Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra

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