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CloudflareCloudflare

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

A technical analysis of Cloudflare's February 20, 2026 BYOIP/BGP outage, detailing the automated cleanup bug, remediation, and Code Orange: Fail Small-driven improvements to API design, rollback safety, and health-mediated deployment.

2/21/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

From Audio to Action: How Speech Invocable Action Powers Native AI Automation Across Salesforce

How Speech Invocable Action enables secure, native speech automation inside Salesforce by standardizing speech-to-text, translation, and related actions within Flows and Agentforce, designed for multi-tenant platforms with robust error handling and AI-assisted developer productivity.

2/21/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Our First Proof submissions

Documenting our first proof submissions and the early lessons learned from building a formal-proof submission workflow.

2/20/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 2: Improved observability and enhanced features for SageMaker AI model customization and hosting

Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025: an in-depth look at improved observability, serverless model customization, rolling updates for safer deployments, bidirectional streaming, and expanded connectivity for enterprise inference.

2/20/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 1: Flexible Training Plans and improvements to price performance for inference workloads

A concise look at how SageMaker AI 2025 Part 1 delivers Flexible Training Plans for inference, price performance, and resilient, scalable deployments via Multi-AZ, parallel scaling, and EAGLE-3 adaptive decoding.

2/20/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Integrate external tools with Amazon Quick Agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Guide to exposing your product as MCP tools and connecting to Amazon Quick Agents via a remote MCP server, detailing deployment options, authentication patterns, and a six-step MCP integration checklist.

2/20/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

Code Mode enables a server-side MCP gateway that lets agents access the entire Cloudflare API with just two tools (search and execute) by turning intent into JavaScript against a typed OpenAPI spec and executing it in a sandboxed Dynamic Worker Loader, dramatically reducing tokens while enabling progressive discovery.

2/20/2026
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input

An in-depth look at PlayBook's real-time input pipeline—capturing, enriching, and routing finger and pencil events into a modular gesture system that decouples input handling from rendering and targets low-latency, cross-platform web apps inside a wrapper.

2/20/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

A technical examination reveals that state-of-the-art language models underperform for less-educated, non-native English-speaking, and foreign-origin users, with higher refusal rates and condescending responses that may spread misinformation, highlighting the need for bias-aware alignment and equitable AI deployment.

2/19/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

From AI projects to an operational capability

Turning AI experiments into an operational capability requires modernization, unified data governance, and disciplined testing, aligning AI initiatives with business KPIs.

2/19/2026
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

Lambda appoints Charles Fisher as Chief Financial Officer

Lambda appoints Charles Fisher as Chief Financial Officer to lead capital strategy and scale its AI infrastructure for hyperscale growth.

2/19/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Exposing biases, moods, personalities, and abstract concepts hidden in large language models

A targeted feature-learning approach reveals and controllably steers hidden abstract concepts—such as biases, moods, and personalities—within large language models by identifying their representations and perturbing them to shape responses.

2/19/2026