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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Choosing Antigravity or Gemini CLI

Concise comparison of Antigravity's all-in-one IDE/agent manager and Gemini CLI's lean terminal CLI with headless execution.

2/4/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references

Accelerating marketing ideation by learning from historical campaigns to generate brand-consistent images with generative AI, leveraging embeddings, vector search, AWS Bedrock, and OpenSearch Serverless.

2/4/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

How enterprises are preparing for agentic AI

Organizations transitioning from GenAI experiments to agentic, goal-driven systems must align data readiness, governance, and identity-aware access with scalable architecture to build trustworthy, integrated agentic AI capabilities.

2/4/2026
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

Kimi K2 Thinking: what 200+ tool calls mean for production

Explores Kimi K2 Thinking, Moonshot AI's open-source reasoning model capable of chaining 200-300 tool calls with a 1 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture and production-ready deployment implications.

2/4/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Elevating craft: How we refreshed our core tabs

A case study of refreshing Duolingo's core tabs through craft-led design, balancing consistency and simplicity with a scalable design system, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous QA to deliver a cohesive learning experience.

2/4/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability

VfL Wolfsburg expands ChatGPT into a club-wide AI capability, illustrating a scalable approach to embedding AI across a football organization.

2/4/2026
Apple MLApple ML

A Reinforcement Learning Based Universal Sequence Design for Polar Codes

A reinforcement learning-driven universal sequence design framework for Polar codes that scales to code lengths up to 2048 for 6G applications, achieving competitive performance with 5G NR and enabling multi-configuration optimization under physics-informed constraints.

2/3/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Counter intelligence

Explores how large language objects convert AI from screens into tangible, real-time kitchen partners through tactile interfaces, context-aware prompts, and design-focused prototypes like Kitchen Cosmo.

2/3/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship

MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky wins the 2026 Churchill Scholarship to pursue an MPhil in biological sciences at Cambridge's Wellcome Sanger Institute, merging biological engineering and AI to advance DNA origami–enabled therapies, gene and mRNA delivery, and cancer cachexia immunotherapy while leading MIT biotech education initiatives.

2/3/2026
InstacartInstacart

Migrating to Jetpack Compose

Four-phase migration from Fragment-based Android UI to Jetpack Compose, accelerated by AI at Instacart's Caper, detailing type-safe Kotlin DSL navigation, incremental rollout, and a practical AI-assisted refactoring playbook.

2/3/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Democratizing business intelligence: BGL’s journey with Claude Agent SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

A production-ready case study of how BGL built a secure, scalable AI agent for analytics using Claude Agent SDK on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to democratize business intelligence through a strong data foundation and domain-aware skills.

2/3/2026
MIT AIMIT AI

SMART launches new Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care research group

A wearable ultrasound imaging project from SMART and MIT enables 48-hour continuous real-time cardiovascular monitoring at home through bioadhesive coupling, AI-assisted diagnostics, and cross-institution collaboration to transform chronic disease care.

2/3/2026