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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
InstacartInstacart

From print to digital: Making weekly flyers shoppable at Instacart through computer vision and LLMs

This post details a two-phase AI pipeline that digitizes grocery flyers into interactive, shoppable experiences on Instacart by merging custom image segmentation (SAM-based) with OCR and LLM-powered product identification, enabling fast, scalable flyer digitization.

2/9/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Automated Reasoning checks rewriting chatbot reference implementation

An open-source chatbot reference implementation that uses Automated Reasoning checks to iteratively rewrite answers, verify correctness with mathematical proofs, and surface auditable explanations through a Guardrails-enabled pipeline.

2/9/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Testing ads in ChatGPT

Technical guide on evaluating ad integrations within ChatGPT, covering testing approaches, metrics, and best practices.

2/9/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

How Agentic Memory Enables Durable, Reliable AI Agents Across Millions of Enterprise Users

Explores how Agentic Memory within Agentforce externalizes durable, governable memory into a structured enterprise memory platform - enabling adaptive context, episodic reasoning, and hybrid validation to keep AI agents reliable across millions of users.

2/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

OTLP everywhere: Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol metrics

Cloud Monitoring now supports OTLP-based metrics via OpenTelemetry, enabling a provider-agnostic telemetry pipeline, advanced features like Delta metrics and exponential histograms, direct SDK-to-Cloud Monitoring ingestion, and a managed OpenTelemetry option for GKE with zero-code instrumentation.

2/9/2026
SpotifySpotify

How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

An in-depth look at Spotify's Release Manager Dashboard (a Backstage plugin) that unifies release data via an API gateway, automates state transitions with a Robot, and enables multi-platform releases from development to production.

2/9/2026
MetaMeta

Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters

Designing and deploying Backend Aggregation (BAG) to stitch thousands of GPUs across regional data centers into Prometheus, a gigawatt-scale AI cluster, using Disaggregated Schedule Fabric and Non-Scheduled Fabric L2 networks for high-capacity, resilient interconnect.

2/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

UNC1069 Targets Cryptocurrency Sector with New Tooling and AI-Enabled Social Engineering

Technical analysis of UNC1069's macOS-centric intrusion into the cryptocurrency sector, detailing a new tooling suite (WAVESHAPER, HYPERCALL, HIDDENCALL, DEEPBREATH, CHROMEPUSH, SILENCELIFT, SUGARLOADER) and an AI-enabled social-engineering lure (compromised Telegram, a fake Zoom meeting) used to harvest credentials and browser data for financial theft and future campaigns.

2/9/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

How Duolingo teaches speaking skills

A technical overview of Duolingo's approach to teaching speaking skills through integrated speaking exercises, mic-based practice, and real-time conversation tools.

2/9/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Agent-to-agent collaboration: Using Amazon Nova 2 Lite and Amazon Nova Act for multi-agent systems

Orchestrating travel planning with a three-agent architecture that uses Amazon Nova 2 Lite for reasoning and planning and Amazon Nova Act for browser automation to transform a fragile single-agent solution into a robust, explainable multi-agent system via simple A2A message-passing.

2/9/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Accelerate agentic application development with a full-stack starter template for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

FAST provides a ready-to-deploy full-stack starter template for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that accelerates agentic application development by wiring runtime, memory, tools, authentication, and observability into a production-ready stack with infrastructure-as-code via AWS CDK and a React frontend.

2/9/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

New Relic transforms productivity with generative AI on AWS

New Relic builds NOVA on AWS to transform internal productivity with generative AI, using Bedrock-backed RAG, Kendra, and MCP-driven Strands Agents to automate complex workflows across Confluence, GitHub, Slack, and Jira while maintaining security, sub-20-second latency, and measurable productivity gains.

2/9/2026