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2025 AI wrapped distills how reasoning-oriented models, massive context windows, and multimodal capabilities propelled production AI, achieved open-source parity, and shifted from training to inference within evolving infrastructure and agentic workflows.

Open Sourcing Dicer: Databricks’ auto-sharder is a dynamic, in-memory shard management control plane that continuously rebalance assignments to keep distributed services low-latency, highly available, and efficient across workloads.

Explores enabling gRPC as a native transport for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to boost performance, security, and developer productivity, comparing it with transcoding gateways and outlining pluggable transport support via the MCP SDK.

A technical overview of Veo 3.1's approach to video production, emphasizing improved consistency, creativity, and control through modular features.

A technical analysis of Iran's January 2026 Internet shutdown, tracing IPv6 address-space collapse, HTTP/3 and QUIC traffic declines, and disruptions across major providers via Cloudflare Radar data.

An in-depth look at Google Public Sector’s finding that nearly 90% of federal agencies are using AI, the security and skills barriers to adoption, and how Gemini for Government and OneGov initiatives aim to accelerate AI-driven transformation across the federal landscape.

Zero-GPU-experience journey to beat a CUDA NF4 dequantization benchmark in Mojo using AI-assisted design, packed 32-bit stores, and occupancy tuning to scale across GPUs.

Systematic evaluation of over-searching in search-augmented LLMs, revealing when external search improves accuracy versus abstention failures, introducing Tokens Per Correctness (TPC), examining multi-turn dynamics and noisy retrieval, and outlining mitigation strategies together with the OverSearchQA benchmark.

Explores StyleX, Meta's CSS-at-scale framework that blends CSS-in-JS ergonomics with static CSS performance, enabling atomic styling with deduplication to shrink bundle sizes across major products and highlight open-source adoption.

Explores strategies for integrating local payment methods and region-specific checkout flows to improve conversions and user experience.

Explores how AI will transform quantitative investment management in 2026, portraying AI as the operating system for quant research and investing, enabled by agentic AI and integrated workflows, with ongoing emphasis on human supervision and disciplined governance.

AuraInspector reveals how misconfigurations in Salesforce Aura and the GraphQL Aura controller enable data exposure, and provides an automated tool to audit access controls and remediate vulnerabilities.