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DatabricksDatabricks

Beyond Provisioning: The Developer’s Guide to Databricks Lakebase Autoscaling

An in-depth, developer-focused guide to Databricks Lakebase autoscaling, explaining how elastic Compute Units and scale-to-zero enable responsive, cost-aware databases for feature branches, CI/CD, and modern workloads.

3/11/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Databricks acquires Quotient AI to power AI agent evaluations

Databricks merges Quotient AI to inject continuous evaluation and learning for AI agents in production, strengthening Genie, Genie Code and Agent Bricks with structured evaluation and reward signals to steadily improve accuracy, reliability and domain expertise.

3/11/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Introducing Genie Code

Genie Code is Databricks’ agentic, autonomous AI for data teams that builds pipelines, debugs failures, ships dashboards, and maintains production systems, tightly integrated with Unity Catalog for governance and data context.

3/11/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

Beyond CRM: How Salesforce Engineered an Enterprise Agent Platform for Any Workload

A technical deep dive into Salesforce's enterprise-grade agent platform, detailing Agentforce and Data 360, architecture choices for trust and governance, data and metadata context, cross-vendor interoperability, and observability to scale reliable agent reasoning beyond CRM.

3/11/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses

Replacing bulky HTML error pages with RFC 9457-compliant Markdown and JSON payloads to give AI agents actionable guidance and cut error-response tokens by ~98% across 1xxx errors and beyond.

3/11/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

AI Security for Apps is now generally available

Cloudflare announces general availability of AI Security for Apps, adding free AI endpoint discovery, custom topics detection, and integrations with IBM and Wiz to detect, mitigate, and respond to LLM-driven threats in AI-powered applications.

3/11/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Welcoming Wiz to Google Cloud: Redefining security for the AI era

Integrating Wiz into Google Cloud to deliver a unified, AI-powered security platform that spans multicloud and hybrid environments, protecting AI-enabled workloads with enhanced threat intelligence and proactive defense.

3/11/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Politicians and professors are learning languages—and here's why

A data-driven analysis of the 2025-26 Duolingo Language Challenge reveals how politicians and academics use gamified language learning to drive cross-sector engagement, collaboration, and cultural understanding.

3/11/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

A better method for planning complex visual tasks

A two-step VLM-guided planning method that uses SimVLM to describe and simulate a scene and GenVLM to generate PDDL files, translating visual inputs into formal planning for robust, long-horizon tasks.

3/11/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Enterprise Data Governance: A Complete Modern Framework

A comprehensive, AI-ready enterprise data governance framework that aligns data ownership, metadata, lineage, access controls, and lifecycle management with business outcomes in modern lakehouse architectures.

3/10/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Bringing Visualizations to Life in Multi‑Agent Systems With Vega‑Lite

How Vega-Lite, Unity Catalog Functions, and the Model Context Protocol empower a Supervisor Agent to generate portable, governance-friendly visualizations that render across platforms like Microsoft Teams in multi-agent workflows.

3/10/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology

Explores Joseph Paradiso’s cross-disciplinary work in wireless wearable sensing at the MIT Media Lab, showing how multimodal, real-time sensing bridges arts, medicine, and ecology to augment human expression, athletic insight, wildlife monitoring, and environmental understanding.

3/10/2026