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  • OpenAI Academy Courses: Practical AI Skills for Work

    OpenAI has launched three new Academy courses designed to equip professionals with practical AI skills. The courses teach how to build hands-on AI abilities, create repeatable workflows, and deploy AI agents in daily work tasks, marking a step toward democratizing AI literacy.

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  • OpenAI IPO: High-Profile Hires Signal a Strategic Shift Before Going Public

    In the weeks before its anticipated blockbuster IPO, OpenAI landed two senior figures: Noam Shazeer, a co-inventor of the Transformer architecture who returns from Character.AI, and Dean Ball, former Trump administration AI policy official. The moves underscore a dual push to dominate frontier model

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  • Mistral AI Expands Physics AI with Emmi Acquisition: A Strategic Move for Industrial Engineering

    Mistral AI has acquired Emmi AI to launch a new physics AI capability, entering the industrial engineering simulation space. The move aims to accelerate product design cycles by replacing multi-day traditional simulations with real-time AI predictions. The acquisition brings Emmi’s team of 30+ resea

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  • From Typing to Talking: Building a Two-Way Voice Bridge to Claude Code

    I used to code by typing at an AI. Now I describe what I want on a walk and hear it get done. This is the full build — Mumble, Whisper, Kokoro and about 600 lines of Python — so you can wire your own.

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  • Website Investing: How to Recover Traffic

    Early in 2025 I purchased a website that provided a service to the Mexican market. Its revenue model was to allow the user to perform a certain task easily, then charge them for the end result (~$2 fee). The site was created in 2021 and in the past had generated $28,000 of revenue annually, most…

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  • How to Find a CTO for Your Startup

    So you have an idea and you probably think that 50% of the hard work is done. Now you just need someone to build it and millions will roll through the front door. You, sir, are one of many “Ideas Founders“. Ideas Founders believe in their idea so much that they think success is a…

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  • How to Become a Freelance Software Developer

    What Does a Freelance Software Developer Do? A freelance developer makes client websites, apps and software. He must also maintain those sites and applications over time as updates are always required and bugs appear from time to time. How Much Can a Freelance Software Developer Make? A typical freelance developer can expect to make between…

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  • How to Start Freelancing

    About the author: I work as a software development freelancer. My minimum hourly rate is $125 but I usually double that to $250 as I get work done very, very fast. That’s the benefit of having skills and experience! This post is all about how you can get started with freelancing, and it’s not specific…

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  • createWriteStream async – Guide

    When writing files to disk in node you have to be careful. Many times file writes require insertion of large chunks of data over a (relatively) long period of time. The key thing to avoid is opening the file multiple times which is resource intensive. It is far better to open the file once and…

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  • Is JavaScript Promise Sync or Async?

    TLDR; Any code in Javascript or Typescript that uses the word “promise” is asynchronous. What Does Async Mean? When coding asynchronously it means that your code is running on a different thread or CPU core than the main program that started the process. This leaves the main thread free to do important jobs like keeping…

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