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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A technical overview of how Ab Initio and Google Cloud enable agentic AI by unifying data and metadata across multi-cloud and on-premises systems, leveraging Dataplex, BigQuery, and Gemini to deliver explainable, auditable AI decisions.

Google (Spanner) tops Gartner's Critical Capabilities in Lightweight Transactions, underscoring low-latency, globally consistent performance and the AI-enabled, graph-centric evolution of a mission-critical database.

Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI unlocks reserved capacity, predictable latency, and scalable AI workstreams through model diversity, multimodal support, and flexible, proactive capacity planning.

Explores Google's GTIG AI Threat Tracker findings on adversarial AI, detailing distillation, experimentation, and integration, including model extraction, agentic AI, AI-enabled malware, and underground jailbreaks.

Strategies for safeguarding dynamic configuration changes at scale in distributed systems, focusing on secure rollout, auditing, and governance.

Gemini unlocks Lyria 3-powered custom music generation from prompts or photos/videos, with SynthID watermarking, AI content verification, and responsible AI safeguards in the Gemini app.

How Custom Agents on Databricks enables rapid, production-ready AI agents built with existing tools and workflows, deployed as serverless Databricks Apps, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines with built-in security, governance, and Lakebase-backed memory for persistent context.