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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Unlocking enterprise data to accelerate agentic AI: How Ab Initio does it

A technical overview of how Ab Initio and Google Cloud enable agentic AI by unifying data and metadata across multi-cloud and on-premises systems, leveraging Dataplex, BigQuery, and Gemini to deliver explainable, auditable AI decisions.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Google (Spanner) Ranks #1 for Lightweight Transactions Use Case in Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report

Google (Spanner) tops Gartner's Critical Capabilities in Lightweight Transactions, underscoring low-latency, globally consistent performance and the AI-enabled, graph-centric evolution of a mission-critical database.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Your guide to Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI

Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI unlocks reserved capacity, predictable latency, and scalable AI workstreams through model diversity, multimodal support, and flexible, proactive capacity planning.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration

Explores Google's GTIG AI Threat Tracker findings on adversarial AI, detailing distillation, experimentation, and integration, including model extraction, agentic AI, AI-enabled malware, and underground jailbreaks.

2/18/2026
AirbnbAirbnb

Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale

Strategies for safeguarding dynamic configuration changes at scale in distributed systems, focusing on secure rollout, auditing, and governance.

2/18/2026
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Gemini unlocks Lyria 3-powered custom music generation from prompts or photos/videos, with SynthID watermarking, AI content verification, and responsible AI safeguards in the Gemini app.

2/18/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Custom Agents now available on Databricks

How Custom Agents on Databricks enables rapid, production-ready AI agents built with existing tools and workflows, deployed as serverless Databricks Apps, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines with built-in security, governance, and Lakebase-backed memory for persistent context.

2/18/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Practice any skill, any time in the Practice tab

Technical overview of the Practice tab that enables on-demand, targeted language practice across iOS and Android, offering Mistakes, Words, Speak, Listen modes for free access and seamless integration with Stories, Radio, Adventures and Explain My Answer.

2/18/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Announcing America-India Connect and new investments to advance global AI access

A technical overview of Google Cloud's America-India Connect initiative, detailing a five-year, $15 billion AI infrastructure investment and new subsea cable routes to expand global AI access through enhanced connectivity and skilling programs.

2/18/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable

Personalization in LLMs—through memory and user profiles—drives agreement and perspective sycophancy over extended conversations, risking echo chambers and misinformation and prompting evaluation and mitigation strategies.

2/18/2026
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education

Technical exploration of accelerating discovery in India through national AI partnerships, frontier AI for science, and AI-enabled education and research initiatives spanning policy, industry, and academia.

2/17/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents

Ferret-UI Lite showcases a compact, cross-platform, on-device GUI agent that achieves end-to-end GUI interaction using curated real and synthetic data, chain-of-thought reasoning, visual tool-use, and reinforcement learning.

2/17/2026