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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
MIT AIMIT AI

Why it’s critical to move beyond overly aggregated machine-learning metrics

Moving beyond aggregate ML metrics, this post highlights how models can underperform in new settings due to distribution shifts and spurious correlations, and it discusses OODSelect-based evaluation and sub-population benchmarks to improve robustness.

1/20/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Getting Started with Gemini 3: Hello World with Gemini 3 Flash

A practical, hands-on Hello World guide to Gemini 3 Flash, covering API key provisioning, Gemini API invocation with the Google GenAI SDK, and building agentic, multimodal applications in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

1/20/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

AI Governance Best Practices: How to Build Responsible and Effective AI Programs

Practical guidance for building responsible, scalable AI programs through risk-based governance spanning data, models, lifecycle, and transparency to address bias, privacy, and compliance.

1/20/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with AI agents

Cisco and OpenAI join forces to redefine enterprise engineering by deploying AI agents that streamline workflows and scale capabilities.

1/20/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Our approach to age prediction

An in-depth look at the methods used to predict age from data, outlining our approach and key methodological considerations.

1/20/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Introducing multimodal retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

A practical guide to enabling multimodal retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, unifying text, images, video, and audio for Retrieval Augmented Generation using Nova Multimodal Embeddings.

1/20/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Elevate your applications with Firestore’s new advanced query engine

Firestore's Enterprise edition adds an advanced query engine with pipeline operations that enable expressive, index-free queries, enhanced observability (query explain and query insights), customizable indexing, and predictable pricing on a scalable, serverless platform.

1/20/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Operating Models for Enterprise AI

An executive guide to enterprise AI operating models, detailing CEO-aligned ownership of data and AI, comprehensive data inventories, broad definitions of data, governance of data assets, and a portfolio-based approach to delivering business outcomes across the organization.

1/20/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

ServiceNow powers actionable enterprise AI with OpenAI

A technical guide to integrating OpenAI with ServiceNow that enables actionable enterprise AI across workflows and systems.

1/20/2026
Lambda LabsLambda Labs

How to deploy ML jobs on Lambda Cloud with SkyPilot

Practical guide to deploying and managing ML workloads on Lambda Cloud with SkyPilot, covering installation, Lambda-specific configuration, a sample YAML-driven job, and automatic termination after idle time or job completion.

1/20/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: How can I learn a language as a hearing aid user?

A technical guide to accessibility-driven language learning on Duolingo for hearing aid users, detailing configurable listening features, IPA-based phonetics, and the role of sign languages and subtitles in real-world practice.

1/20/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

AI Infrastructure: Essential Components and Best Practices

A comprehensive guide to AI infrastructure, detailing the core computing, storage, networking, and software components and best practices for scalable, cost-effective AI workloads from training to deployment.

1/20/2026