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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

BigQuery AI Hackathon: Celebrating Innovation and a Look at What's New

A concise technical overview of the BigQuery AI Hackathon, its winning projects, and the latest BigQuery AI capabilities—including AI.IF with sublinear scaling, AI.SCORE, AI.EMBED, AI.CLASSIFY, and AI.SEARCH—alongside vector search and multimodal data features that empower faster, smarter AI-powered solutions.

1/29/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Introducing Google Cloud Vertex AI Extensions for .NET

A technical guide showing how to use Google.Cloud.VertexAI.Extensions for .NET to integrate Google Gemini models on Vertex AI through the Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions, with chat, embeddings, and image-generation samples in preview.

1/29/2026
Fly.ioFly.io

Litestream Writable VFS

Litestream Writable VFS provides a write-enabled, hydrated VFS layer for SQLite, enabling fast Sprite boot times and seamless synchronization with S3-compatible object storage.

1/29/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

Explains Moltworker, a middleware that runs the Moltbot AI agent on Cloudflare Workers via the Sandbox SDK and AI Gateway, detailing edge-native architecture, Browser Rendering, R2 storage, BYOK/Unified Billing, and Zero Trust access for secure, scalable personal AI.

1/29/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

The history of women in chess—from exclusion to Grandmasters

Data-driven overview of the history of women in chess, examining exclusion, policy shifts, rating gaps, and milestones from Vera Menchik to today's Grandmasters.

1/29/2026
PinterestPinterest

Ads Candidate Generation using Behavioral Sequence Modeling

A technical exploration of applying behavioral sequence modeling to improve ads candidate generation.

1/28/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network

An in-depth technical overview of Google's disruption of the IPIDEA residential proxy network, exploring the SDK-driven two-tier C2 infrastructure, domain takedowns, and protective actions across Android and ecosystem partners.

1/28/2026
DropboxDropbox

Engineering VP Josh Clemm on how we use knowledge graphs, MCP, and DSPy in Dash

A concise exploration of Dropbox Dash's knowledge-graph-driven context engine that combines MCP, DSPy, and index-based retrieval to deliver fast, secure cross-app search and agentic querying.

1/28/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link

Strategies to prevent data leaks and privacy breaches when AI agents autonomously click links, with threat modeling and practical defense techniques.

1/28/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Future Mode Part 1: The intelligent and secure browser for enterprises

A technical exploration of how Chrome Enterprise Premium enables an intelligent, agentic, and secure browser powered by Gemini 3 AI models to empower enterprise workflows while preserving data protection.

1/28/2026
GitHubGitHub

From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner

A technical deep dive into how GitHub Copilot CLI's animated ASCII banner was engineered for cross-terminal accessibility, using semantic ANSI color roles, custom tooling, and Ink-based rendering to deliver a non-blocking, accessible terminal UI.

1/28/2026
AirbnbAirbnb

My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles

A concise technical narrative following Peter Coles's journey to Airbnb, outlining career milestones, core technologies, and the lessons learned along the way.

1/28/2026