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Apple MLApple ML

Beyond a Single Extractor: Re-thinking HTML-to-Text Extraction for LLM Pretraining

Examines HTML-to-Text extraction for LLM pretraining and shows that unioning multiple extractors increases token yield by up to 71% while enhancing coverage for structured content such as tables and code blocks without compromising benchmark performance.

2/24/2026
Apple MLApple ML

The Potential of CoT for Reasoning: A Closer Look at Trace Dynamics

A technical synthesis of Chain-of-Thought reasoning, introducing Trace Dynamics and a 'potential' metric to quantify how CoT steps influence the likelihood of correct completions, with insights on transferability across LLMs and implications for LRMs and VLMs.

2/24/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Introducing Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference for Anthropic’s Claude models in the Middle East Regions (UAE and Bahrain)

Amazon Bedrock enables global cross-Region inference for Anthropic Claude models in the Middle East (UAE and Bahrain), delivering scalable, secure, low-latency AI workloads across Regions with automated routing and unified observability.

2/24/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Global cross-Region inference for latest Anthropic Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models on Amazon Bedrock in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan

Global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock enables scalable deployment of Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan with resilient routing, quota management, and production-grade monitoring.

2/24/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Generate structured output from LLMs with Dottxt Outlines in AWS

Explains how Dottxt's Outlines on AWS enables strict, schema-driven structured outputs from LLMs via generation-time validation in Amazon SageMaker, with deployment through AWS Marketplace and practical integration benefits.

2/24/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Train CodeFu-7B with veRL and Ray on Amazon SageMaker Training jobs

A practical guide to training CodeFu-7B with veRL and Ray on Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs, detailing distributed reinforcement learning workflows, data preparation, multi-node orchestration, and observability for scalable competitive programming code generation models.

2/24/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Checkmate your goals: How to become a chess grandmaster

A concise, technique-driven blueprint for achieving chess grandmaster status by meeting FIDE rating thresholds, earning three norms, and sustaining disciplined, iterative improvement.

2/24/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Scaling data annotation using vision-language models to power physical AI systems

Leveraging vision-language models to scale data annotation for autonomous construction, as shown by Bedrock Robotics, to accelerate deployment of physical AI systems.

2/23/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Apple Workshop on Reasoning and Planning 2025

Apple’s 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning surveys advances in reasoning, planning, model development, and embodied multimodal AI systems shaping adaptable, trustworthy agents.

2/23/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Spark Declarative Pipelines: Why Data Engineering Needs to Become End-to-End Declarative

Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) enables end-to-end declarative data engineering by moving from manual orchestration to pipeline-level planning and execution inside Apache Spark, automating incremental processing, data quality rules, and backfills.

2/23/2026
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