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Spanner migrations: Automating dual-write with Antigravity CLI for minimal disruption

When Google’s Finance Engineering team needed to modernize their legacy data layer, they chose Spanner, a globally distributed, strongly consistent, multi-model database with high availability capabilities. But migrating to Spanner without taking production services offline was a daunting engineering challenge: As the internal team responsible for the application, we needed to manually rewrite dual-write logic …

AI digital twins struggle to predict human behavior, creating ‘funhouse mirror’ distortions

While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments on digital twins to gather faster insights without risking harm or distress to real participants.

Pushing MiniMax H3 quality on an RTX 3070 8GB — movie screenshots, voice refs + 0.5MP workflow

Wanted to see how far I could push the quality using what I already have. An RTX 3070 with just 8GB VRAM. This was done with the standard MiniMax Ref workflow using screenshots from the original movie as character and scene references. I stuck with the standard model rather than Turbo Loras because, at least …

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AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and coding agents like Kiro often struggle with the gap between conceptual frameworks and working code. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a service for building, connecting, and optimizing agents at scale with any framework or model. AI-DLC positions AI as a central collaborator across …

REFACTOR-VLA: Unsupervised Library Learning of Typed Motor Programs

Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into reusable, well-defined abstractions. As a result, these models perform poorly on long-horizon (multi-step) tasks, and it’s difficult to interpret what they have learned. Existing approaches for …

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Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference

Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with global cross-Region inference from both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia. Your application calls the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint in Asia Pacific (Sydney) or …