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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Distillation, Experimentation, and (Continued) Integration of AI for Adversarial Use

GTIG's AI Threat Tracker analyzes how threat actors deploy AI—from distillation/model extraction attacks to AI-augmented operations and agentic AI—to accelerate reconnaissance, phishing, and malware development, while detailing Google's defenses and safeguards.

2/12/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Accelerating science with AI and simulations

AI and physics-based simulations are accelerating materials discovery and scientific progress through high-throughput computation, generative modeling, and multimodal reasoning across MIT and beyond.

2/12/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

AI/BI Genie, Foundational Model API, and Databricks Assistant Now Generally Available in AWS GovCloud

Databricks delivers gov-ready AI and data intelligence on AWS GovCloud with AI/BI Genie, the Foundational Model API, and Databricks Assistant, all governed by Unity Catalog and backed by serverless compute.

2/12/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

The Collaboration Advantage: How Modern Retailers and CPG Brands Win Together

Delta Sharing enables secure, real-time data collaboration between retailers and CPG brands, replacing complex ETLs with instant access to sales, inventory, and product data to optimize promotions and prevent stockouts.

2/12/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Domain Intelligence Wins: What “High-Quality” Actually Means in Production AI

A pragmatic look at how domain intelligence defines what constitutes 'high quality' in production AI, with practical metrics, monitoring, and governance to deliver reliable, business-aligned outcomes.

2/12/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

Against the Clock: How Data 360 Launched the Informatica Help Agent in 24 Days

A race-against-the-clock case study showing how Data 360 built an AI-ready, scalable knowledge base and launched the Informatica Help Agent in 24 days by unifying 100,000 unstructured documents into retrievable context through reusable patterns and disciplined ingestion and retrieval.

2/11/2026
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

Closing the Evaluation Gap in Agentic AI

Details the $3M Open Benchmarks Grants to close the evaluation gap in agentic AI by advancing open benchmarks for safe, trusted autonomy in complex, real-world environments.

2/11/2026
Jane StreetJane Street

Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge

Advent of FPGA Challenge brought 213 submissions from 46 countries, showcasing diverse HDL approaches to solving Advent of Code puzzles with real hardware demonstrations.

2/11/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Build financial resilience with AI-powered tabletop exercises on Google Cloud

AI-powered, context-aware tabletop exercises on Google Cloud help financial institutions validate regulatory readiness and strengthen operational resilience under DORA.

2/11/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B MoE model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters and a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture is now generally available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling open-weights and fully managed deployment to accelerate AWS-based AI development.

2/11/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

How AI Is Transforming Data Analytics

AI is transforming data analytics by embedding AI/ML, NLP, and automated workflows across the data lifecycle to accelerate data preparation, insight generation, and real-time decision-making while balancing governance and ethical considerations.

2/11/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Structured vs unstructured data

A practical guide to understanding and choosing between structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, outlining storage architectures from data lakes to lakehouses and data warehouses, with decision frameworks and real-world use cases for actionable analytics.

2/11/2026