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OpenAIOpenAI

Inside Praktika's conversational approach to language learning

A technical overview of Praktika's conversational approach to language learning, detailing dialogue-driven interaction, personalization, and scalable, data-informed architecture.

1/22/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

15 movies to watch if you’re learning English

A practical, technically oriented guide to using films to boost English language learning, detailing how dialogue, narration, and diverse accents in movies can enhance speaking, listening, and vocabulary, with genre- and skill-based selection strategies.

1/22/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

How Agentforce Runs Secure AI Agents at 11 Million Calls Per Day

How Salesforce's Agentforce secures AI agents at scale with a layered access-control plane that enforces authentication, authorization, and request integrity at the edge, defending multi-tenant blast radius while enabling 11M+ daily calls and robust observability.

1/22/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Driving Industry Outcomes with Partner AI Solutions

Explores how Databricks-powered GenAI and partner AI solutions—enabled by Agent Bricks, Unity Catalog, and Lakehouse governance—are delivering measurable industry outcomes across healthcare, finance, telecom, life sciences, and retail.

1/22/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

How Thomson Reuters built an Agentic Platform Engineering Hub with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Thomson Reuters built a scalable, secure agentic platform engineering hub on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, orchestrating autonomous service agents (Aether) with TRACK and human-in-the-loop validation to automate cloud provisioning, database patching, and ISRM-compliant operations.

1/21/2026
Apple MLApple ML

DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation

Unpacks DiffuCoder, a 7B masked diffusion model for code generation, detailing denoising dynamics, how sampling temperature reshapes generation order, and a novel coupled-GRPO RL training scheme that reduces autoregressive bias and boosts performance.

1/21/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

High-Availability Feature Flagging at Databricks

Databricks builds SAFE, an in-house feature flagging and experimentation platform, to decouple deployments from feature enablement and enable safe, scalable, low-latency rollouts across thousands of services while maintaining reliability.

1/21/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Mastering Gemini CLI: Your Complete Guide from Installation to Advanced Use-Cases

A practical, hands-on guide to Gemini CLI—from installation to advanced workflows—covering context management with GEMINI.md, extensibility through Model Context Protocol (MCP) and extensions, and real-world use cases in software development, data analysis, and content creation.

1/21/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Build agents to learn from experiences using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore episodic memory

Technical guide to architecting Amazon Bedrock AgentCore episodic memory, detailing episode extraction, memory storage, reflection, and benchmarks to enable agents to learn from past experiences across sessions.

1/21/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Building a Regulatory Risk Copilot with Databricks Agent Bricks (Part 1: Information Extraction)

A practical, one-line guide to building a production-grade Information Extraction workflow with Databricks Agent Bricks to convert FDA CRL PDFs into structured insights, emphasizing SME–engineer collaboration, formal evaluation, and scalable deployment.

1/21/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Announcing BlackIce: A Containerized Red Teaming Toolkit for AI Security Testing

Announcing BlackIce: a containerized, open-source red-teaming toolkit that bundles 14 AI security tools into a reproducible Docker-based environment for rapid prompt injection, data leakage, hallucination, and adversarial ML testing, with MITRE ATLAS and Databricks AI Security Framework alignment.

1/21/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

BASF FOX: From Simple Idea to Global GenAI Impact and Digital Award 2025 Winner

From ideation to global deployment, FOX—BASF’s AI-powered digital assistant for Finance and Controlling built on the Databricks platform and integrated with Teams—drives scalable, trusted insights and streamlined work across BASF.

1/21/2026