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Apple MLApple ML

Learning to Reason as Action Abstractions with Scalable Mid-Training RL

RA3 presents a scalable mid-training RL framework that learns compact action abstractions via a sequential variational objective to prune the action space, accelerate convergence, and boost post-training reasoning performance across code-generation and multimodal grounding tasks.

1/27/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Exai Bio & Databricks: Accelerating AI-Powered Liquid Biopsy for Early Cancer Detection

Exai Bio and Databricks demonstrate AI-powered, multimodal liquid biopsy for early cancer detection, detailing Exai-1 and Orion foundation models for cfRNA and oncRNA signals, unified on a Databricks Lakehouse with scalable compute and MLflow-based MLOps to enable reproducible, cross-cohort training across thousands of patient samples.

1/27/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

2025 in Review: Databricks SQL, faster for every workload

Databricks SQL 2025 delivers automatic, no-tuning performance gains across dashboards, pipelines, governance, and AI workloads, powered by serverless, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, and intelligent engine optimizations like Predictive Query Execution, while reducing storage costs with Zstandard by default.

1/27/2026
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

From building AI infrastructure to shaping its standards: Lambda joins OCP

Lambda joins the Open Compute Project Advisory Board to accelerate open, composable AI infrastructure that decouples power delivery and cooling from compute for scalable, repeatable deployments.

1/27/2026
Apple MLApple ML

SelfReflect: Can LLMs Communicate Their Internal Answer Distribution?

Explores whether LLMs can reveal their internal answer distributions, introduces the SelfReflect metric to gauge faithfulness between summaries and beliefs, and shows that explicit uncertainty requires sampling multiple outputs to be truly transparent.

1/27/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Prism

An introductory overview of Prism, highlighting its core concept, envisioned use cases, and potential benefits.

1/27/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Build reliable Agentic AI solution with Amazon Bedrock: Learn from Pushpay’s journey on GenAI evaluation

Building a production-ready agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock using Pushpay’s GenAI evaluation framework, featuring a golden dataset, domain categories, and rapid iteration to reduce time-to-insight from minutes to seconds and reach 95% accuracy.

1/27/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Flutter on Cloud Run: Full Stack Dart Architecture

End-to-end full-stack Dart on Cloud Run, pairing a Flutter Web frontend with a Dart backend and shared data models in a monorepo workflow for scalable, serverless deployment.

1/27/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

What's new with ML infrastructure for Dataflow

ML infrastructure updates for Dataflow introduce new GPUs/TPUs, flexible provisioning, ML-aware streaming, and right-fitting heterogeneous compute to optimize batch and streaming workloads.

1/27/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Build an intelligent contract management solution with Amazon Quick Suite and Bedrock AgentCore

Build an intelligent contract management solution that unites Amazon Quick Suite with Bedrock AgentCore to enable multi-agent AI collaboration for contract analysis, risk and compliance, dramatically cutting review cycles from days to minutes.

1/27/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant Is Now Generally Available: Turning Enterprise Knowledge into Answers

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant is now generally available, turning disparate enterprise data into accurate, source-grounded answers through a fully managed, source-aware retrieval and inference platform.

1/27/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Diverse Threat Actors Exploiting Critical WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088

Detailed analysis of CVE-2025-8088 in WinRAR, exposing a path-traversal via Alternate Data Streams that drops payloads into the Startup folder for persistence and initial access, exploited by diverse state-sponsored and financially motivated actors with actionable IOCs and defenses.

1/27/2026