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OpenAI News

Measuring AI’s capability to accelerate biological research

OpenAI introduces a real-world evaluation framework to measure how AI can accelerate biological research in the wet lab. Using GPT-5 to optimize a molecular cloning protocol, the work explores both the promise and risks of AI-assisted experimentation.

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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare One - New duplicate action for supported Cloudflare One resources

You can now duplicate specific Cloudflare One resources with a single click from the dashboard. Initially supported resources: Access Applications Access Policies Gateway Policies To try this out, simply click on the overflow menu (⋮) from the resource table and click Duplicate. We will continue to add the Duplicate action for resources throughout 2026.

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers - Support for ctx.exports in @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers

The @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers package now supports the ctx.exports API, allowing you to access your Worker's top-level exports during tests. You can access ctx.exports in unit tests by calling createExecutionContext(): import { createExecutionContext } from "cloudflare:test"; import { it, expect } from "vitest"; it("can access ctx.exports", async () => { const ctx = createExecutionContext(); const result = await ctx.exports.MyEntryPoint.myMethod(); expect(result).toBe("expe

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers - Configure your framework for Cloudflare automatically

Wrangler now supports automatic configuration for popular web frameworks in experimental mode, making it even easier to deploy to Cloudflare Workers. Previously, if you wanted to deploy an application using a popular web framework like Next.js or Astro, you had to follow tutorials to set up your application for deployment to Cloudflare Workers. This usually involved creating a Wrangler file, installing adapters, or changing configuration options. Now wrangler deploy does this for you. Starting w

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ExternalAI
OpenAI News

Staying ahead in the age of AI

Discover how leaders can build AI-ready organizations using clear strategy, training, governance, and accelerated innovation.

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OpenAI News

The new ChatGPT Images is here

The new ChatGPT Images is powered by our flagship image generation model, delivering more precise edits, consistent details, and image generation up to 4× faster. The upgraded model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users today and is also available in the API as GPT-Image-1.5.

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ExternalDatabase
PlanetScale Blog

Using MotherDuck with PlanetScale

DuckDB has gained significant traction for OLAP workloads.It's powerful, flexible, and has a feature-rich SQL dialect, making it perfect to use for analytics alongside OLTP-oriented relational databases. Today, we're excited to announce support for the pg_duckdb extension for Postgres databases on PlanetScale alongside our partnership with MotherDuck. DuckDB in Postgres DuckDB can be run as a standalone OLAP database, but also alongside Postgres via the pg_duckdb extension.The extension integrat

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