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https://github.com/jepsen-io/particledb. Modern applications often spread state across a variety of systems: databases, caches, queues, data warehouses, search indices, and so on. search index might lose data, and transactional updates across disparate. systems remains. an open research problem. single engine with a special focus on AI agents and applications.
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OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex.
OpenAI
Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans’ usage allowance will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex as we bring the agentic capabilities of Work into the main ChatGPT experience. Your usage for ChatGPT and Codex will be measured in tokens, the units of information a model processes and generates.
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Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single sampling parameter.
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Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out.