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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Build data analytics agents faster with BigQuery’s fully managed, remote MCP server

A practical, hands-on guide to building AI-powered data analytics agents faster by using Google BigQuery’s fully managed, remote MCP server, with ADK integration, OAuth-based setup, and Gemini tooling for secure access to enterprise data.

1/7/2026
SpotifySpotify

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation

Explores why Spotify separates personalization ML and experimentation tooling to build scalable, low-latency recommendations using contextual bandits and RL-powered models across teams.

1/7/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

Migration at Scale: Moving Marketing Cloud Caching from Memcached to Redis at 1.5M RPS Without Downtime

Zero-downtime migration of Marketing Cloud caching from Memcached to Redis Cluster at 1.5M RPS across 50+ applications, preserving millisecond latency and enabling proactive hot-key management.

1/7/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Instant insights: Gemini CLI's New Pre-Configured Monitoring Dashboards

Gemini CLI now ships with pre-configured Google Cloud Monitoring dashboards and OpenTelemetry-powered telemetry, delivering out-of-the-box visibility into usage, performance, and logs with minimal setup.

1/7/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

Scaling Sales Agents: Engineering Next-Gen AI for the Enterprise Era

Scaling from a single Engagement Agent MVP to a dispatcher-driven, enterprise-scale multi-agent platform that delivers high-throughput, fair, and observable AI-powered outreach at scale.

1/6/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

Comprehensive analysis of a Venezuela BGP route-leak involving AS8048 (CANTV), examining probable routing-policy misconfigurations and highlighting ASPA and RFC9234 as paths toward a safer, more verifiable BGP ecosystem.

1/6/2026
Apple MLApple ML

NarrativeTrack: Evaluating Video Language Models Beyond the Frame

NarrativeTrack introduces a benchmark for evaluating temporally grounded narrative understanding in multimodal language models, using entity-centric reasoning and a Compositional Reasoning Progression framework that scales from entity existence to changes and ambiguity.

1/6/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Improving User Interface Generation Models from Designer Feedback

A designer-aligned pipeline for improving UI generation models that leverages feedback via commenting, sketching, and direct manipulation to finetune LLMs with multimodal data and human evaluations, outperforming traditional RLHF baselines.

1/6/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Instructed Retriever: Unlocking System-Level Reasoning in Search Agents

Introducing the Instructed Retriever, a system-aware retrieval architecture that propagates system specifications (user instructions, labeled examples, and index schema) through query generation and retrieval to enable robust instruction-following, low-latency enterprise agent search.

1/6/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Reflecting on a year of transformation and mission impact together

One-year retrospective on Google Public Sector's AI-enabled cloud, security-first innovations, and agentic technologies like Gemini that accelerate government missions across defense, civilian agencies, and education.

1/6/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: How do I support someone who’s learning a language?

Practical guide to designing language-learning support systems that empower learners through choice, forgiving feedback, and low-pressure practice.

1/6/2026
Jane StreetJane Street

Fun with Algebraic Effects - from Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations

A practical guide to replacing monads with algebraic effects in OCaml 5, using the Handled_effect library to implement clean, composable Hardcaml FPGA testbenches and simulations.

1/6/2026