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OpenAI News

Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.

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Apple Developer News

Changes to iOS in Japan

To comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that create new options for developers' apps in Japan. Beginning with iOS 26.2, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more. The new options for downloading apps from alternative app marketplaces and making app payments open new avenues for malw

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DigitalOcean Blog

A More Powerful, Code-First Knowledge Base Experience on the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform

Building production-ready retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems can be complex, time-consuming, and often requires months of engineering effort. Developers and enterprises struggle to ingest diverse data sources, structure content for semantic search, and maintain accurate, verifiable answers. Enhancements to DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Knowledge Bases, now in public preview, are designed to solve this problem. Its code-first feature lets developers create, manage, and query knowledge bases

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DigitalOcean Blog

Introducing DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Agent Development Kit: Deploy agent code as a real application

AI agents are everywhere right now. You’ve seen the demos: agents that plan trips, write code, or manage inboxes. But once you try to run one outside a demo, reality sets in. Taking an agent from “it works locally” to “this runs reliably in production” usually means stitching together infrastructure, deployment pipelines, logging, endpoints, and monitoring, often without changing the agent logic itself. The gap between prototype and production is where most agent projects stall. The DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean Blog

A Year of Innovation: DigitalOcean Managed Databases in 2025

2025 was a big year for DigitalOcean Managed Databases, packed with meaningful enhancements designed to deliver more power, flexibility, and simplicity for developers and businesses of all sizes. With performance boosts and new database engines introduced to improve scalability, automation, and observability, this year’s releases focused on making it easier than ever to build and run reliable data-backed applications on DigitalOcean. In this recap, we’ll walk through the most impactful launches

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Apple Developer News

Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms. Section 3.3.3(A): Specified requirement on recordings and privacy. Section 3.3.3(J): Specified requirements for launching voice-based conversational apps via the side button on iPhone. Definitions, section 3.3.3(P): Specified terms for use of the Declared Age Range API and Signif

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