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CloudflareCloudflare

What we know about Iran’s Internet shutdown

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.

1/13/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

New Google Public Sector research shows that nearly 90% of federal agencies are already using AI

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.

1/13/2026
Modular AIModular AI

Modular: How I Beat Unsloth's CUDA Kernel Using Mojo—With Zero GPU Experience

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.

1/12/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models

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.

1/12/2026
MetaMeta

CSS at Scale With StyleX

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.

1/12/2026
AirbnbAirbnb

Pay As a Local

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

1/12/2026
Two SigmaTwo Sigma

AI in Investment Management: 2026 Outlook (Part I)

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.

1/12/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

AuraInspector: Auditing Salesforce Aura for Data Exposure

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.

1/12/2026
Apple MLApple ML

DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search

DeepMMSearch-R1 enables on-demand, multi-turn web searches for multimodal LLMs with image-driven query crafting, self-reflection-based refinement, and a two-stage training pipeline that includes the DeepMMSearchVQA dataset.

1/12/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Multivariate Conformal Prediction using Optimal Transport

A principled, distribution-free framework for multivariate conformal prediction that uses optimal transport to extend conformity scores to multidimensional outputs and analyzes the practical trade-offs of OT-based scoring.

1/12/2026
Apple MLApple ML

MoEs Are Stronger than You Think: Hyper-Parallel Inference Scaling with RoE

Explores hyper-parallel inference with RoE to turn Mixture-of-Experts into a dynamic, stochastic ensemble that samples multiple expert outputs per token for higher accuracy with reduced compute and no fine-tuning.

1/12/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

How Omada Health scaled patient care by fine-tuning Llama models on Amazon SageMaker AI

Omada Health scales personalized nutrition coaching by fine-tuning Llama 3.1 on Amazon SageMaker AI using QLoRA, enabling HIPAA-compliant, real-time nutrition education with LangSmith-based evaluation.

1/12/2026