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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: Modverse #49: Modular Platform 25.4, Modular 🤝 AMD, and Modular Hack Weekend

Modular Platform 25.4 advances AI infrastructure with AMD partnership, enhanced GPU support, significant performance gains, and vibrant community innovations including Mammoth for scalable GenAI inference and seamless Mojo-Python integration.

7/9/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Data Intelligence in Action: 100+ Data and AI Use Cases from Databricks Customers

Data + AI Summit showcased 100+ data and AI use cases from Databricks customers, driving transformative real-world results through suite solutions like Data Intelligence Platform, enabling streamlined operations, reduced risk, and new growth opportunities.

7/9/2025
OpenAIOpenAI

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools

Exploring collaborative efforts with a vast network of educators to integrate AI advancements into educational systems effectively.

7/8/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning

MIT researchers demonstrate that test-time training combined with in-context learning significantly enhances large language models' ability to solve complex reasoning tasks by temporarily updating model parameters during deployment.

7/8/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: Why do some unrelated languages seem similar?

Explores various reasons why unrelated languages can seem similar, including distant linguistic relations, language contact, common phonetic patterns, coincidence, and perceptual biases.

7/8/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting

Cloudflare leveraged TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension, to simplify and dramatically improve the performance of analytics and reporting for their Zero Trust products by enabling automatic partitioning, continuous aggregates, compression, and efficient time-series data management.

7/8/2025
ChromiumChromium

Introducing Skia Graphite: Chrome's rasterization backend for the future

Skia Graphite revolutionizes Chrome's graphics by introducing a multithreaded, GPU-accelerated rasterization backend leveraging modern APIs like Metal, Vulkan, and D3D12 to significantly enhance performance and rendering efficiency.

7/8/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

A detailed exploration of how data-driven methods and statistical tools are transforming political behavior analysis, campaign strategies, and voter engagement.

7/7/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care

MIT HEALS launched the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with $12 million funding to empower early-career researchers driving innovation in health care through interdisciplinary approaches including AI, diagnostics, and collaborative research.

7/7/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform

Cloudflare’s SASE platform introduces dynamic egress policies by hostname, domain, category, and application using a novel initial resolved IP mechanism to enhance security and simplify network traffic management.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Why Pathnostics Chose the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Its Most Complex Diagnostics Data

Pathnostics harnesses the flexible, scalable Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify complex, unstructured diagnostics data, enhance predictive modeling, and deliver actionable insights for urinary tract infection management and clinical operations.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Unlocking the Power of Data: How Databricks, WashU & Databasin Are Redefining Healthcare Innovation

Exploring how the collaboration between Washington University School of Medicine, Databricks, and Databasin is driving healthcare innovation through AI-ready data infrastructure and advanced analytics.

7/7/2025