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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
OpenAIOpenAI

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools

Exploring collaborative efforts with a vast network of educators to integrate AI advancements into educational systems effectively.

7/8/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning

MIT researchers demonstrate that test-time training combined with in-context learning significantly enhances large language models' ability to solve complex reasoning tasks by temporarily updating model parameters during deployment.

7/8/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: Why do some unrelated languages seem similar?

Explores various reasons why unrelated languages can seem similar, including distant linguistic relations, language contact, common phonetic patterns, coincidence, and perceptual biases.

7/8/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting

Cloudflare leveraged TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension, to simplify and dramatically improve the performance of analytics and reporting for their Zero Trust products by enabling automatic partitioning, continuous aggregates, compression, and efficient time-series data management.

7/8/2025
ChromiumChromium

Introducing Skia Graphite: Chrome's rasterization backend for the future

Skia Graphite revolutionizes Chrome's graphics by introducing a multithreaded, GPU-accelerated rasterization backend leveraging modern APIs like Metal, Vulkan, and D3D12 to significantly enhance performance and rendering efficiency.

7/8/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

A detailed exploration of how data-driven methods and statistical tools are transforming political behavior analysis, campaign strategies, and voter engagement.

7/7/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care

MIT HEALS launched the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with $12 million funding to empower early-career researchers driving innovation in health care through interdisciplinary approaches including AI, diagnostics, and collaborative research.

7/7/2025
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform

Cloudflare’s SASE platform introduces dynamic egress policies by hostname, domain, category, and application using a novel initial resolved IP mechanism to enhance security and simplify network traffic management.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Why Pathnostics Chose the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Its Most Complex Diagnostics Data

Pathnostics harnesses the flexible, scalable Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify complex, unstructured diagnostics data, enhance predictive modeling, and deliver actionable insights for urinary tract infection management and clinical operations.

7/7/2025
DatabricksDatabricks

Unlocking the Power of Data: How Databricks, WashU & Databasin Are Redefining Healthcare Innovation

Exploring how the collaboration between Washington University School of Medicine, Databricks, and Databasin is driving healthcare innovation through AI-ready data infrastructure and advanced analytics.

7/7/2025
MIT AIMIT AI

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

An autonomous robotic probe guided by machine learning and expert domain knowledge rapidly measures photoconductance in semiconductor materials, accelerating materials discovery for solar energy applications.

7/4/2025
DuolingoDuolingo

Why Duolingo switched to Energy and how it helps you learn

Duolingo's new Energy system replaces Hearts to create a more encouraging, balanced, and effective learning experience by powering lessons with a rechargeable learning battery that rewards correct answers and supports progress.

7/3/2025