OpenAI's new Codex Spark model is built for speed

OpenAI's new Codex Spark model is built for speed

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AI/BI Genie, Foundational Model API, and Databricks Assistant Now Generally Available in AWS GovCloud

AI/BI Genie, Foundational Model API, and Databricks Assistant Now Generally Available in AWS GovCloud

• Share this post Keep up with us Government agencies and organizations with strict compliance requirements now have expanded access to the latest Databricks AI technology and data

Agentic AI Transforms Hardware Engineering by Automating Model Construction & Validation

• AI agents can handle physics-based modeling complexity while engineers focus on design judgment and tradeoffs.

Mastering Model Adaptation: A Guide to Fine-Tuning on Google Cloud

Mastering Model Adaptation: A Guide to Fine-Tuning on Google Cloud

• Mastering Model Adaptation: A Guide to Fine-Tuning on Google Cloud Developer Advocate If you arebuilding AI applications, you might experiment with prompts, or even dip your toes

How to Build License-Compliant Synthetic Data Pipelines for AI Model Distillation

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• Specialized AI models are built to perform specific tasks or solve particular problems. • But if you’ve ever tried to fine-tune or distill a domain-specific model, you’ve probabl

Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic's powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry

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An AI Model for Scientists

An AI Model for Scientists

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Research & Labs · February 4, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 243 words
H Company's new Holo2 model takes the lead in UI Localization

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Accelerating Long-Context Model Training in JAX and XLA

Accelerating Long-Context Model Training in JAX and XLA

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Group Note Drafts: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials

• The Security Interest Group has published the first drafts of the following Group Notes: Threat Modeling Guide : This document describes when, why, and how to perform threat mode

OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise

OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise

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Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

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Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

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Engineering Blogs · January 14, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 250 words
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

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From Building Bricks to Brilliance: Model of Intel Series 3 Processor Steals the Show

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Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 13)

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Mathematics · December 7, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 300 words
New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning

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Mathematics · November 30, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 288 words
WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

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• WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model Nov 17, 2025 The new AI model delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global weather predictions.

Quantum Computing · November 17, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 219 words
The evolution of rewards: From marketing model to loyalty driver

The evolution of rewards: From marketing model to loyalty driver

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Game Development · August 12, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 306 words
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Game Development · July 11, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 295 words