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OpenAI highlights AI use in physical engineering
ChatGPT and Codex are being used to speed up engineering workflows such as CAD, PCB design and simulation. OpenAI showcases how these tools apply to physical-world engineering tasks.
Full story at openai.com ↗ - Open source · Programming & dev tools
Arnis turns real places into Minecraft worlds
Louis Erbkamm's open source project Arnis uses OpenStreetMap data to turn real places into Minecraft worlds. Since 2022 it has reached close to 900,000 downloads and about 70 contributors.
Full story at github.blog ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Artificial intelligence
OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend
OpenAI describes how it built Pando, a Git-compatible backend. It is designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
Full story at openai.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Artificial intelligence
GitHub Copilot comes to JetBrains Air
GitHub Copilot can now be picked as an agent in Air, locally in the IDE and in the cloud with Air Teams. Tasks run on the existing Copilot plan, not on JetBrains AI credits.
Full story at blog.jetbrains.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools
JetBrains IDEs add sound cues
With JetBrains IDEs 2026.3, short sounds signal things like a build succeeding or failing or a breakpoint being hit. Sound is on by default for screen reader users.
Full story at blog.jetbrains.com ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools
Anthropic adds Message Threads to the Messages API
Agents no longer resend the whole conversation each turn and transmit only what has changed. For requests between 500,000 and one million tokens, time to first token drops by about 35 percent.
Full story at The Decoder ↗
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