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Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Key insights from our inaugural survey on the ROI of AI in the public sector

Examines ROI in the public sector through agentic AI and AI agents, highlighting productivity and security gains, Gemini for Government deployments, and the essential role of executive sponsorship in scaling adoption.

2/3/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: Why is it so hard to explain the rules of your own language?

Technical examination of English quirks that challenge language teaching—covering verb transformations, adjective order, and countability—to explain why rules are hard to articulate and how to improve pedagogy.

2/3/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads

Cloudflare R2 Local Uploads enables near-client writes with asynchronous cross-region replication to the bucket, delivering faster, strongly consistent uploads across regions.

2/3/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Agentic AI for healthcare data analysis with Amazon SageMaker Data Agent

Agentic AI-enabled SageMaker Data Agent within Unified Studio accelerates healthcare data analytics by turning natural-language clinical questions into structured, executable plans and production-ready SQL/Python/PySpark code, enabling rapid cohort and survival analyses while preserving governance and security.

2/3/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

AI agents in enterprises: Best practices with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Practical guide to building production-ready enterprise AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, detailing lifecycle engineering, observability, tooling, automated evaluation, security, and scalable multi-agent patterns.

2/3/2026
AWS MLAWS ML

Use Amazon Quick Suite custom action connectors to upload text files to Google Drive using OpenAPI specification

Leverage Amazon Quick Suite's custom action connectors to securely upload text files to Google Drive through an OpenAPI-based integration powered by API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Databricks Lakebase is now Generally Available

Databricks Lakebase is GA on AWS as a serverless, compute–storage‑decoupled operational database that unifies analytics, real-time workloads, and AI capabilities with on-demand scalability for production apps.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

MemAlign: Building Better LLM Judges From Human Feedback With Scalable Memory

MemAlign introduces a lightweight dual-memory framework that aligns LLM judges to domain-specific feedback via Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory, enabling rapid, low-cost improvements from natural-language feedback without updating model weights, and achieving memory scaling with open-source MLflow and Databricks support.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Agile and Flexible Services Deployment with OKR Centric Delivery

An exploration of how Databricks combines OKR-centric delivery, pod-based agile deployment, embedded expertise, and AI tooling to accelerate value and measurable outcomes for customers.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Self-Optimizing Football Chatbot Guided by Domain Experts on Databricks

Databricks-powered self-optimizing football defense analysis chatbot that learns from domain-expert feedback to continuously improve prompts, judges, and data tools via an end-to-end DC Assistant workflow built on the Databricks Agent Framework, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and GEPA-based optimization.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

What is Data Engineering?

A technical tour of how data engineering designs and maintains scalable, quality-driven data pipelines—from ETL/ELT and storage choices to real-time analytics and AI readiness.

2/3/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Delta Lake Explained: Boost Data Reliability in Cloud Storage

Delta Lake Explained shows how to turn flexible cloud data lakes into reliable, governed lakehouses with ACID transactions, time travel, and scalable performance for analytics and ML.

2/3/2026