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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
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
DatabricksDatabricks

Building What’s Next. Together. Introducing the Brickbuilder Partner Network for the Agentic AI Era

Unveils the Brickbuilder Partner Network to unify and accelerate Databricks' ecosystem in the agentic AI era, aligning incentives, specialization, and demand generation to turn data and AI solutions into rapid business impact.

2/11/2026
AirbnbAirbnb

My Journey to Airbnb — Anna Sulkina

A concise, technically oriented narrative of Anna Sulkina's journey to Airbnb, highlighting career milestones and lessons learned in tech.

2/11/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

A practical guide to using Codex to design and orchestrate autonomous agents in an agent-first technology landscape.

2/11/2026
MetaMeta

The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

Just-in-Time Tests (JiTTests) generated by large language models enable rapid, regression-focused testing in agentic development, eliminating test maintenance and manual code reviews.

2/11/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

7 Technical Takeaways from Using Gemini to Generate Code Samples at Scale

A practical blueprint for using Gemini and GenAI to generate scalable, production-grade code samples, detailing the architecture, tooling, and seven actionable takeaways for reliable, end-to-end sample generation.

2/11/2026
DropboxDropbox

Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity

A concise synthesis of Dropbox's executive roundtable on AI-driven engineering productivity, emphasizing leadership alignment, measurable impact, tooling adoption, and the human factors shaping product velocity.

2/11/2026