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Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data
Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where users can explore, analyze, and visualize data with AI agents to…
Slack AI: The Path to Multi-Cloud
In early 2023, Slack faced a foundational challenge: serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at enterprise scale with the security, reliability, and performance our customers expect. Over three years, we evolved from basic…
Solo founding is at an all-time high: Top performers have these traits in common
In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.
Introducing physics AI at Mistral: the foundation for engineering acceleration.
Physics AI research that’s shaping the industry.
Extending Human Intelligence Through AI
Understanding AI as an extension of human intelligence—not a replacement for it—offers a more grounded path for building trustworthy AI systems. The post Extending Human Intelligence Through AI appeared first on Microsof…
Agentforce’s Agent Script: Building Deterministic Control for Enterprise AI Workflows
In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Elijah Ben Izzy, Software Engineering Architect at Salesforce. Elijah is building Age…
Expanding Stripe Radar to protect more of your business
Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods; defends against new fraud types like multi-account abuse and pay-as-you-go abuse, regardless of which payment processor you use; and gives pla…
Beyond the Menu Tree: How Yelp Built a Smarter Customer Success Chatbot with AI
The Evolution of Support: From Fixed Phrases to Conversation At Yelp, delivering responsive and accurate customer support is a core priority. For years, our legacy Customer Success (CS) Chatbot provided support by guidin…
Shaping Product Understanding with Contrastive Reinforcement Learning
Etsy’s marketplace is defined by the creativity and craftsmanship of our sellers and the hundreds of millions of highly diverse products they offer. You can find silversmiths who cold-forge recycled sterling silver, weav…
SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems
We’re introducing SilverTorch, a reimagining of recommendation systems that unifies all retrieval components for user generated content under a unified architecture. SilverTorch shows up to 23.7x higher throughput compar…
Building an Enterprise Agent Platform: Enforcing Identity, Data, and API Governance
While enterprises deploy AI agents at a rapid pace, their governance strategies often remain fragmented. Most organizations enforce identity, data access, and API security in separate silos, which creates dangerous gaps…
Emmi joins Mistral to accelerate the AI-native industry
The Hugo evolution: Engineering Grab's unified, one-click data ingestion platform with Apache Flink
Introduction Data drives every decision we make at Grab. As our operations scale, so does our need for robust, real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks. Enter Hugo: our self-service data platform that has long…
How AI Changes the Role of Applied Scientists
Levi Boxell, Tilman Drerup, Alexandr Lenk The Economics Team at Instacart is an applied science team that operates at the intersection of machine learning engineering and economics. Similar to other applied science teams…
How AI Changes the Role of Applied Scientists
Levi Boxell, Tilman Drerup, Alexandr Lenk The Economics Team at Instacart is an applied science team that operates at the intersection of machine learning engineering and economics. Similar to other applied science teams…
Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Agent Fabric Context Catalog and the Future of AI Governance
Modern agents no longer execute within predictable application boundaries. They invoke APIs dynamically, retrieve enterprise context through MCP servers, orchestrate workflows across multiple platforms and interact with…
Making It Easier Than Ever to Connect with Friends in League & VAL!
Link your Discord and Riot accounts to sync your friends lists, show your in-game activity as your Discord status, and invite your Discord friends directly to your League or VAL lobby.
Introducing Nova, our internal platform for coding agents
Nova lets engineers run multiple coding sessions in parallel and lets internal systems use AI agents as part of automated workflows.
Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox
Support for Web Serial in Firefox 151 for Desktop Firefox can now connect directly to microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware from the web. Starting in Firefox…
MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models
MagenticLite is an agentic system for small models that works across the browser and local file system in a single workflow. It combines specialized models and orchestration to support efficient agentic performance on ev…
Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI
Vega turns a full credential into a single proof, sharing only what is needed and nothing more, with performance that works in real apps. The post Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI appeare…
Making User-Sequence Data More Cost-Efficient, Faster, and Easier to Use
Authors ( listed alphabetically ) Ads Feature Engineering Infra team: Ajay Venkatakrishnan, Le Zhang Core ML Infra team: Eric Shang, Pihui Wei ML Data team: Connor Votroubek, Yi He User Understanding team: Camilo Munoz,…
How Partition Access Visualizations Reduced our Data Lake S3 Cost by 33%
Introduction In large analytics environments, data teams often struggle to answer deceptively simple questions, like who their stakeholders are and how their data is being used. At Yelp, we address this by visualizing ac…
Optimizing Our Build Times by Migrating from Webpack to Rspack
Over the years, Webpack has remained the bundler of choice for many JS projects, including here at Yelp. While it has served us well, its speed has increasingly become a bottleneck as our monorepo continues to grow. Fort…
Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure
How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale. By: Lucen Zhao , Shukun Yang , Ashish Jain Knowledge graphs offer a natural and powerful way to represent relationships between entities…
How Salesforce Built an AI Security Agent for Autonomous Threat Triage
In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Mor Levi, Vice President of Detection, Analysis and Response at Salesforce, who leads…
Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
As of March 2026, E2EE is now enforced for every voice and video call on Discord. This represents a multi-year commitment, and Discord’s VP of Engineering is here to talk about why it matters.
Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork
TL;DR LLM evals, automated judges that assess relevance, coherence, and quality at scale, are a powerful new... The post Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
How AI is transforming analytics at Grab
Introduction At Grab, analytics sits close to almost every decision that matters. Our north star is the democratization of intelligence, ensuring that anyone making a business call has immediate access to trustworthy ans…
Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo
Introduction Long integrated development environment (IDE) sync/indexing times can quietly erode developer productivity, making code navigation sluggish, spiking memory usage, and slowing down Jetpack Compose preview upd…
Further Notes on Our Recent Research on AI Delegation and Long-Horizon Reliability
Our recent paper, “LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate”, has generated discussion about the reliability of AI systems in delegated workflows. We appreciate the interest in this work and want to clarify several…
Scaling Personalized Marketing for Multi-Tenant Commerce Platforms
TL;DR Background: Marketing Across Marketplace and Storefront Instacart operates across two distinct commerce experiences: Instacart Marketplace, our first-party consumer marketplace Storefront Pro, our white-label e-com…
Scaling Personalized Marketing for Multi-Tenant Commerce Platforms
TL;DR Background: Marketing Across Marketplace and Storefront Instacart operates across two distinct commerce experiences: Instacart Marketplace, our first-party consumer marketplace Storefront Pro, our white-label e-com…
Creating a Multi-Tenant AI Agent Platform Handling 7K+ Sessions Without Cross-Team Interference
In our Engineering Energizers Q A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Priyanka Saraf, Senior Software Engineer on the Agentforce Foundations team. Priyanka…
Viaduct 1.0 and the future of Airbnb’s data mesh
Moving from an internal tool to a community-driven, production-ready data mesh. By : Ryan Tanner , Raymie Stata , Adam Miskiewicz Introduction We’re excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Viaduct. This release marks…
Celebrate Discord’s 11th Birthday with an Exclusive Set of Emoji and Wallpapers
Discord is turning 11 this year! To celebrate, we made over twenty Discord-themed emojis, along with over twenty wallpapers, and even a digital poster for everyone to download, for free!
Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions
On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering…
GridSFM: A new, small foundation model for the electric grid
Introducing GridSFM, a small foundation model that can predict AC optimal power flow in milliseconds, boosting efficiency and unlocking cost savings. Learn how GridSFM gives grid operators direct visibility into congesti…
mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
mimalloc is an open-source, modern, scalable memory allocator that is a drop-in replacement for malloc and free. It is relatively small (~12K lines), with clear internal data structures, and is easy to build and integrat…
Migrating Data Ingestion Systems at Meta Scale
Meta’s data ingestion system, which our engineering teams leverage for up-to-date snapshots of the social graph, has recently undergone a significant revamp to enhance its reliability at scale. Moving from our legacy sys…
Advancing AI for materials with MatterSim: experimental synthesis, faster simulation, and multi-task models
MatterSim is expanding what AI can do for materials science—from faster large-scale simulations to MatterSim-MT, a new multi-task model for simulating properties beyond potential energy surfaces alone. The post Advancing…
An Engineer’s Guide to Better AI Skills: Implementing a Testing Process to Optimize Agent…
An Engineer’s Guide to Better AI Skills: Implementing a Testing Process to Optimize Agent Performance in Any Repository or Skill Author: Daniel Reed The tech industry is currently seeing a massive overhaul in the way we…
How to Use Nitro: A Beginner’s Guide to Discord’s Premium Subscription
What’s Discord Nitro all about? What perks does it give, and how can you get it? If you’re looking to expand your Nitro knowledge, you’re in the right place.
Nitro Now Comes with Xbox Game Pass and New Benefits. Welcome to Nitro Rewards.
As we hit Nitro’s 10-year anniversary, we re launching Nitro Rewards: a brand-new benefits program built with some of the biggest names in gaming. See what’s coming for Nitro members, for no added cost.
Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable
We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-…