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AWS MLAWS ML

Scaling data annotation using vision-language models to power physical AI systems

Leveraging vision-language models to scale data annotation for autonomous construction, as shown by Bedrock Robotics, to accelerate deployment of physical AI systems.

2/23/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Apple Workshop on Reasoning and Planning 2025

Apple’s 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning surveys advances in reasoning, planning, model development, and embodied multimodal AI systems shaping adaptable, trustworthy agents.

2/23/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Spark Declarative Pipelines: Why Data Engineering Needs to Become End-to-End Declarative

Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) enables end-to-end declarative data engineering by moving from manual orchestration to pipeline-level planning and execution inside Apache Spark, automating incremental processing, data quality rules, and backfills.

2/23/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Firefly: Illuminating the path to nanosecond-level clock sync in the data center

Firefly delivers nanosecond-precision, software-driven clock synchronization across data centers by combining layered internal NIC timing with distributed consensus on random graphs, enabling scalable, fault-tolerant timing on commodity hardware.

2/23/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Accelerating AI model production at Hexagon with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Hexagon accelerates AI model production by deploying Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to scale training of point-cloud AI models with high-performance GPUs, enabling faster development, deployment, and end-to-end MLOps observability.

2/23/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

How Sonrai uses Amazon SageMaker AI to accelerate precision medicine trials

Sonrai demonstrates an end-to-end MLOps framework on SageMaker AI to accelerate precision medicine biomarker trials through secure data management, robust experiment tracking with MLflow, and governance-ready model deployment.

2/23/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Announcing General Availability of Zerobus Ingest, part of Lakeflow Connect

GA of Zerobus Ingest, a serverless, single-sink ingestion service in Lakeflow Connect that streams data directly to Delta tables in the lakehouse, reducing cost and complexity while delivering real-time, governance-enabled analytics at scale.

2/23/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Agentic AI with multi-model framework using Hugging Face smolagents on AWS

An actionable guide to building agentic AI with a multi-model framework using Hugging Face smolagents on AWS, showcasing vector-enabled medical knowledge retrieval across SageMaker, Bedrock, and containerized backends.

2/23/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

Building an AI-Accelerated Compliance Automation Platform for 24x Faster Audits

AI-assisted, API-first compliance automation enables 24x faster audits by replacing fragile manual workflows with deterministic evidence pipelines across Salesforce's mobile environments.

2/23/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform

Cloudflare One becomes the first SASE platform to support standards-based post-quantum encryption across SWG, Zero Trust, and WAN, delivering hybrid ML-KEM-based security for TLS, MASQUE, and IPsec in a cloud-native, interoperable solution.

2/23/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Learning to Evict from Key-Value Cache

A reinforcement-learning driven framework to learn per-head Key-Value cache eviction policies for LLM inference, boosting long-context efficiency without modifying the model.

2/23/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners

A concise analysis of OpenAI's Frontier Alliance Partners announcement and its implications for AI collaboration, governance, and ecosystem partnerships.

2/23/2026