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DuolingoDuolingo

7 languages you’ll hear where you least expect them

A geolinguistic, data-driven tour of unexpected language pockets around the world, showing how colonization, migration, and cultural exchange reshape linguistic maps.

2/19/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Parking-aware navigation system could prevent frustration and emissions

MIT's probability-aware, dynamic programming navigation system identifies optimal parking lots by weighing proximity, parking probability, and walking distance to cut total travel time and reduce congestion and emissions.

2/19/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing OpenAI for India

A concise technical overview of deploying and integrating OpenAI services in India, covering API access, integration patterns, and scalability considerations.

2/18/2026
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

Explains how the Claude C Compiler marks a milestone in AI-assisted software engineering by preserving architecture across subsystems, automating implementation, and shifting human effort toward design and ecosystem-building—highlighted through Modular's future-oriented stance.

2/18/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Build unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Demonstrates CAKE—a customer-centric multi-agent AI system built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—that unifies siloed data across Neptune, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch to deliver fast, semantic customer intelligence with secure governance and explainable insights.

2/18/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Flexible Node Types Are Now Generally Available

Enabling flexible node types lets Databricks automatically fall back to compatible instance types to keep cluster launches resilient during peak demand, optimize Spot usage, and give admins precise control via an API and node_timeline visibility.

2/18/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Unifying Ranking and Generation in Query Auto-Completion via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Multi-Objective Alignment

Unified end-to-end query auto-completion via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and multi-objective Direct Preference Optimization, enhanced by learned and rule-based verifiers and critique-revision for production-ready deployment under tight latency constraints.

2/18/2026
Snorkel AISnorkel AI

How Tool Discipline Let a 4B Model Outsmart a 235B Giant on Financial Tasks

Tool discipline through RL-fine-tuning and single-table querying enables a 4B model to outperform a 235B giant on financial benchmarks, with on-premises deployment and dramatic cost savings.

2/18/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Evaluating AI agents: Real-world lessons from building agentic systems at Amazon

A production-focused evaluation framework for agentic AI systems at Amazon, outlining holistic metrics for tool use, reasoning, memory, and multi-agent coordination, with HITL governance drawn from Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations and real-world deployments.

2/18/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Predictive Optimization at Scale: A Year of Innovation and What’s Next

Predictive Optimization in Unity Catalog has become the default, autonomous maintenance layer that continuously optimizes data layout, statistics, and storage across millions of tables, delivering faster queries, lower costs, and observability into 2026.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Using the Neo4j Extension in Gemini CLI

A practical walkthrough of the Neo4j Gemini CLI extension, showing how to deploy Neo4j Aura, translate natural language prompts into Cypher, model graphs, and use a Neo4j-backed memory for GraphRAG workflows from the terminal.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Powering the next generation of agents with Google Cloud databases

Enable AI agents to securely access and orchestrate data across Google Cloud databases via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), delivering serverless, governed integration with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Firestore, and the Developer Knowledge MCP server.

2/18/2026