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Engineering blogs & AI research
A reading room from engineering teams and AI labs: titles, short feed excerpts, and links to the originals. For my own essays, explore the writing archive.
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Parse Brings Enterprise Intelligence at Scale
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building…
IDEA Prune: An Integrated Enlarge-and-Prune Pipeline in Generative Language Model Pretraining
Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token efficiency compared to…
PROOF-Gen: From Optimized Data to Better Distillation
Supervised fine-tuning on teacher-generated trajectories is the standard first stage for distilling tool-calling capabilities into deployable models. Post-training pipelines that drive shipped tool-calling agents re-run…
Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation
High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representation should include phy…
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared firs…
Scaling Conditional Learned Retrieval for Pinterest Home Feed
Devin Kreuzer | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Yichi Wang | Machine Learning Engineer I; Sujan Reddy Ale | Machine Learning Engineer I; Zelun Wang | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer; Hongtao Lin | Sr. Machine Learning Engin…
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize The data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve put this code into open source, and published two new techni…
Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
STARFlow2: Bridging Language Models and Normalizing Flows for Unified Multimodal Generation
Unified multimodal models that understand, reason over, and generate interleaved text–image sequences remain structurally fragmented: existing approaches either sacrifice visual fidelity through discrete tokenization, im…
Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors…
The state of sovereign AI adoption in 2026
How to evaluate LLMs before production
These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning. The post How to evaluate LLMs before production appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series
Most developers I talk to aren t asking whether Azure SQL Database can handle their next app. They re asking where to start when it comes to modernization, migration, and AI in the database. If you re reading this, you r…
Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges
We are happy to announce a 30-day trial experience for Azure SRE Agent. New customers can create and configure the SRE Agent at their own pace, with no charges for setup time or keeping agents ready. During the trial, yo…
Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning
Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments. By generating intermediate reasoning images, Visual CoT provides an int…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)
During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential in the room is always a strong motivator.…
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works. The post Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn t mean it s any good. appeared fir…
MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE – a clean-sheet RDMA transpor…
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the com…
Mistral x HUMAIN
Intent to Ship: JPEG XL
It isn t often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The 2010s gave us WebP, which was a modest step up from JPEG. But the 2020s have given us two new image formats that a…
From Prediction to Action: How to Turn AI Outputs Into Decisions
By Ali Nahvi, Akshit Behera, Yvonne Fan, and Melissa Ramey. Your models are accurate. Your pipelines are healthy. Your dashboards are working. And your system is still failing its users. Imagine thousands of dashboards a…
Tiny Aya Vision
AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Building Jarvis Pro: Route first, answer later
Introduction The first Jarvis Pro prototype could produce answers that sounded right. That was the problem. One early answer looked polished: it named the merchant, summarized the week, and recommended pushing promotions…
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
Samuel Yeboah , Francesco Di Chiara and Mingliang Liu Today, Netflix runs two Flink autoscalers. That is exactly one more than we want. We built the first one in-house years ago, when there was no mature option suited to…
Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions
Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is critical for building high-performing multilingual language models for languages with insufficient training data. When target language data is scarce, the knowledge required for many d…
Progressive Refinement: An Iterative Pseudo-Labeling Approach for Mandarin-English Code-Switching ASR
Code-switching (CS), alternating languages within the same utterance, poses significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) due to limited CS training data. This paper applies an iterative pseudo-labeling t…
Scaling Laws for Mixture Pretraining Under Data Constraints
As language models scale, the amount of data they require grows – yet many target data sources, such as low-resource languages or specialized domains, are inherently limited in size. A common strategy is to mix this scar…
Cultural Awareness in Global AI
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. The post The August 17 outage, and the work ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems.
Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to trac…
Why AI-Generated Code Is Easy but Engineering Trust Is Hard
Imagine an AI coding agent generating a large pull request filled with AI-generated code. Everything looks exactly as it should: Later, your team discovers the agent quietly misinterpreted an ambiguous requirement near t…
Five monetization trends from global pricing leaders
As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more f…
Building Menu Vision: Real-Time Dish Recognition
Menus aren’t just lists, they’re a window into a restaurant’s unique offerings, specialties, and personality, shaping where and what we choose to eat. But here’s the challenge: reading “Kung Pao Chicken - Stir-fried chic…
How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)
When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone. By: Harrison Katz A forecast that carries weight The Forecasting Data Science team at Airbnb produces many of the forecasts the rest of the company plans…
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog…
Why global workers are driving demand for stablecoin payouts
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how o…
In the works: AWS Builder Lofts in Berlin, Hyderabad, and São Paulo
Each location will be a permanent community space to offer free workshops, networking events, pitch nights, content creation spaces, collaboration/co-working areas, and event hosting for developers, students, or tech pro…
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI
As demand for AI continues to grow, so does the infrastructure needed to support it.
AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)
Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community lea…
A letter to the Discord community in Brazil
On the order from Brazil s ANPD to suspend screensharing and video features in the country, how we re complying, and our commitment to our community in Brazil.
How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, s…