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

Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified

Explores why SWE-bench Verified evaluation was discontinued and its implications for benchmarking and verification in software engineering.

2/20/2026