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Engineering blogs & AI research
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How to Evaluate Production AI Agents: Measure System Outcomes, Not Conversations
Imagine deploying a production AI agent that confidently tells a customer, I have processed your refund. The customer leaves satisfied. The conversation looks perfect. Your monitoring shows no obvious errors. Then someon…
New currency capabilities for global businesses to cut FX costs
Two product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies in…
How Claude's text watermarking works
How Claude's text watermarking works
How Claude's text watermarking works
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
When Can LLMs Replace Humans in A/B Tests?
TL;DR: LLM predictions can stand in for human outcomes in A/B tests, but only by assumption, not by design.... The post When Can LLMs Replace Humans in A/B Tests? appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb
Rebuilding login and signup surfaced product insights, not just technical challenges. Here’s how we designed Flexible Authentication at the intersection of product intuition and technical architecture. By : Jose Santos ,…
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Grab Bench: Evaluating AI on Grab-shaped production work
Introduction What worried us wasn’t the hallucination, it was the subtle plausibility. Answers an engineer could easily read past and accept: a right-looking Structured Query Language (SQL) query, a plausible tool call,…
How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees
WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we re always evolving as well, s…
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLM…
How Agentforce-Powered AI Security Workflows Accelerate Incident Response
In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Zac Taylor, a software engineering architect on the Trusted Services team. Zac and hi…
Discord Update: August 11, 2026 Changelog
Here s the Discord Changelog from August 11, 2026, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
Link Discord and WoW to Keep the Guild Chatting Wherever You Are
Gather your guildmates! Link your Discord and Battle.net accounts to unlock synced guild chat across Discord and World of Warcraft.
In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray interpretation. The post Introdu…
How Standardizing Product Telemetry Reduced Time to Insight by 97%
By Rounak Mehta, Adrian Eng, Sandeep Singh, and Kishore Kanchapalli. In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Adrian Eng, Dire…
Mapping the AI economy
AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture th…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and more (August 10, 2026)
Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, b…
Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards
Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…
How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC execution API Authors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing how we buil…
Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.
Cohere and the University of Waterloo launch partnership to strengthen Canada’s AI talent pipeline
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10
Mobile support is now generally available in the Discord Social SDK, allowing developers to extend Discord s social experiences to iOS and Android.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale
DynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management.
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking
Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequ…
How Salesforce Eliminated Single-Region Risk and Reduced Downtime Blast Radius at 4B Metrics/Min
By Priyanka Singla, Aaron Stockton, and Vincent Poon In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Priyanka Singla, Senior Software…
Tino Cuéllar joins as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Tino Cuéllar joins as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve Mobile
We re working to more closely match your mobile and desktop experiences, including changes to server icons and the chat bar. (Did we mention Ash, the OG dark theme, is back?)
Introducing Shieldstral.
Migrating a Large Flow Monorepo to TypeScript
In early 2017, Webcore selected Flow as Yelp’s next-generation typechecker over TypeScript. At the time there was no clear frontrunner. Flow had better support for React, better performance, and a respectable repository…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Price reduction of GPT models in Bedrock, CloudWatch managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, and more (August 3, 2026)
Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day explor…
GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model
Meta s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of the latest-generation GPUs. This post goes i…
Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to r…
Removing the Security Barrier to Agentforce Adoption
By Pallavi Rajan Udmalpet and Janhavi Deshpande. As enterprises accelerate secure AI adoption with Agentforce and Data 360, organizations across healthcare, banking, government, and critical infrastructure face a soberin…
Luke Ross
How AI is transforming analytics at Grab
Introduction At Grab, analytics sits close to almost every decision that matters. Our north star is the democratisation of intelligence, ensuring that anyone making a business call has immediate access to trustworthy ans…
Cohere signs EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
Kafka App? There’s a Skill for That
Etsy is home to over 100 million listings from 5.6 million active sellers. Because the items for sale are unique and creative, there is no standard product catalog that tells us what they are. When someone searches for “…
Modeling Device Capabilities for Analytics
by Aarti Laddha , Richard Diaz-Cool , Rishika Idnani , Venkatesh Selveraj Netflix supports a vast and evolving set of features and content types, ranging from 4K streaming and immersive audio to live streaming and cloud…
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
How AI Is Used in Manufacturing
AI in the Healthcare Sector
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.
Crowdsourced taxonomy verification: A feedback-driven framework for refining knowledge graph relationships via online search interactions
Introduction The efficacy of semantic search relies on the accuracy of the underlying Knowledge Graph (KG). In high-velocity domains like on-demand food delivery or e-commerce, the catalog of entities like dishes, produc…