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OpenAIOpenAI

Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

Introduces a comprehensive framework and evaluations to systematically measure and preserve the monitorability of chain-of-thought reasoning in large language models across scaling, reinforcement learning, and increased inference compute.

12/18/2025
StripeStripe

Stripe Atlas startups in 2025: Year in review

A data-driven look at how Stripe Atlas startups in 2025 accelerated time-to-revenue, expanded internationally, and leaned into AI agents.

12/18/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential

MIT CSAIL researchers demonstrate that brief alignment, or guidance, between neural networks enables traditionally untrainable networks to learn effectively by transferring internal structural knowledge rather than outputs, revealing hidden architectural biases and improving performance.

12/18/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Announcing advanced governance capabilities for Vertex AI Agent Builder

Vertex AI Agent Builder introduces advanced governance, enhanced development tools, and scalable managed services to empower organizations to build, govern, and deploy AI agents with enterprise-grade security and efficiency.

12/18/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Achieve near-100% accurate text-to-SQL for your agentic apps

Leverage the AlloyDB AI natural language API to achieve near-perfect accuracy in converting natural language queries to SQL for secure, explainable, and business-relevant agentic applications.

12/18/2025
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

How Google Public Sector and Google DeepMind can power the Genesis Mission and a new era of scientific discovery

Google Public Sector and DeepMind's Gemini for Government platform leverages advanced AI and cloud technology to accelerate federally-funded scientific discovery, enabling autonomous workflows, multimodal reasoning, and secure collaboration across National Labs for the Genesis Mission.

12/18/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Announcing support for GROUP BY, SUM, and other aggregation queries in R2 SQL

R2 SQL now supports GROUP BY, SUM, and other aggregation queries with distributed execution strategies like scatter-gather and shuffling for efficient processing of massive datasets in Cloudflare's serverless platform.

12/18/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

The 2025 Duolingo Social Impact report

Duolingo's 2025 Social Impact report highlights its strategic investments in early childhood education in Pennsylvania, including the Early Learners First Program and Duo’s Treehouse, partnerships to improve literacy access, and advocacy efforts leading to increased state funding.

12/18/2025
AWS MLAWS ML

Bi-directional streaming for real-time agent interactions now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming using WebSocket for real-time, seamless voice and multimodal AI agent interactions, simplifying deployment and enhancing conversational AI experiences.

12/18/2025
AWS MLAWS ML

Build and deploy scalable AI agents with NVIDIA NeMo, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents

Leverage NVIDIA NeMo, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents to build, optimize, evaluate, and deploy scalable, secure AI agents with seamless observability and production-grade infrastructure on AWS.

12/18/2025
DropboxDropbox

Inside the feature store powering real-time AI in Dropbox Dash

Dropbox Dash’s custom-built hybrid feature store integrates Feast, Spark, and Dynovault to deliver low-latency, real-time machine learning features at scale for fast, relevant search ranking.

12/18/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Top 10 Questions You Asked About Databricks Clean Rooms, Answered

Databricks Clean Rooms enable secure, privacy-first multi-party data collaboration across clouds using Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing for controlled, governed analysis without exposing raw data.

12/18/2025