The End of the Assistants API (soon) • Responses API will replace Assistants API by mid-2026.
• It’s more flexible, faster, and easier to use.
• Full feature parity is coming including code execution and thread management. Developers should start migrating now.
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OpenAI to Replace Assistants API with Responses API by 2026
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Reka Open-Sources Flash 3: 21B Reasoning Model for On-Device AI
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Reka open-sourced Flash 3, a 21B parameter reasoning model
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 12 mars 2025
—Matches o1-mini on benchmarks
—32k context length
—Ideal for on-device deployment
—Finetuned on synthetic and public datasets
—Powers Nexus, Reka's platform for creating and managing AI agentspic.twitter.com/FTzKc8NtM8Reka open-sourced Flash 3, a 21B parameter reasoning model —Matches o1-mini on benchmarks
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Apple App Store Developer Economics and Smartphone AI Value Chain
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I don’t disagree. I’ve been writing about this for as long as I’ve been writing Stratechery. From 2013: https://
stratechery.com/2013/why-doesn
t-apple-enable-sustainable-businesses-on-the-app-store/
… I expounded on this in the context of this Article and AI yesterday: https://
stratechery.com/2025/a-google-
i-o-idea-the-smartphone-ai-value-chain-apples-developer-hang-ups/
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Team Launches Well-Designed API for Developer Success
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this is a tremendous accomplishment from the team.
— Sam Altman (@sama) 11 mars 2025
i am obviously biased but i think it's one of the most well-designed and useful APIs ever, and that people will really love it. https://t.co/0J94UHD9INthis is a tremendous accomplishment from the team. i am obviously biased but i think it's one of the most well-designed and useful APIs ever, and that people will really love it.
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DLT Sink API enables real-time external system integrations
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The new DLT Sink API lets you seamlessly extend your DLT pipelines to external systems like Kafka and Delta tables, ensuring real-time data flow and streamlined integrations. Perfect for real-time use cases like anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and other time-sensitive
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OpenAI Releases New Agent Development Tools
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BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI released loads of new tools for agent development.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 11 mars 2025
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Developer Rebuilds Future Tools Platform with React Framework
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After about a year of working with different developers and having them either disappear on me continually fail to follow the specifications of the project, I just gave up and decided to "vibe code" my overhaul of Future Tools. I decided to build from scratch with React and I'm
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Code Interpreter Coming to Responses API as Built-in Tool
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We’re working to add Code Interpreter to the Responses API as our next built-in tool!
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Managing Docker Environments with Cloud Services Like Browserbase
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You can manage your own Docker environment if you’d like, but you can also use a cloud service like @browserbase or @scrapybara
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NVIDIA RAPIDS Leader Democratizes AI Technology Access
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Taurean Dyer is on a mission to broaden access to technology and change the world for the better. Learn how he’s doing so in his role as a senior technical product manager for NVIDIA RAPIDS. #NVIDIAlife