Daily AI Recap: Feb 04, 2026

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How to Build Efficient Agentic Reasoning Systems by Dynamically Pruning Multiple Chain-of-Thought Paths Without Losing Accuracy: In this tutorial, we implement an agentic chain-of-thought pruning framework that generates multiple reasoning paths in parallel and dynamically reduces them using consensus signals and early stopping...
Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users: Google revealed a significant milestone for it's Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI....
Meet Gizmo: a TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps: Gizmo's app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps...and it's a lot of fun....
AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation: The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation....
A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.: Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most promi...
What a16z is actually funding (and what it’s ignoring) when it comes to AI infra: Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent...
Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows: Torralba’s research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception....
Tinder looks to AI to help fight ‘swipe fatigue’ and dating app burnout: Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches....
Roblox’s 4D creation feature is now available in open beta: Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta....
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How to Become an AI Engineer in 2026: A Self-Study Roadmap: Want to become an AI engineer in 2026? This step-by-step roadmap breaks down the skills, tools, and projects you need....
AWS vs. Azure: A Deep Dive into Model Training – Part 2: This article covers how Azure ML's persistent, workspace-centric compute resources differ from AWS SageMaker's on-demand, job-specific approach. Additionally, we explored environment customization opt...
Mitiga Reports Exceptional Growth as Enterprises Embrace Real-Time CDR: The Zero-Impact Cloud Security leader advances its AI-native security platform, expands channel and technology alliances, and reports strong sales growth and market momentum heading into 2026 Mitiga, ...
Richey May Cyber Becomes RM Cyber: Richey May announced today that Richey May Cyber has officially evolved into RM Cyber, unveiling a refreshed brand identity and new website designed to reflect the practice’s specialized cybersecurity...
Case study: Citi: As global banking collides with AI at scale, Citi is quietly rebuilding its core from Austin. What’s emerging is a blueprint for how the next generation of finance gets engineered. Ready to join the f...
How to Work Effectively with Frontend and Backend Code: Learn how to be an effective full-stack engineer with Claude Code The post How to Work Effectively with Frontend and Backend Code appeared first on Towards Data Science....
From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems: The previous article in this series, “Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary,” focused on the first AI-orchestrated espionage campaign and the failure of prompt-level control. This article ...
How to Build Your Own Custom LLM Memory Layer from Scratch: Step-by-step guide to building autonomous memory retrieval systems The post How to Build Your Own Custom LLM Memory Layer from Scratch appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Why Operational Threat Intelligence Needs AI Agents Now, Not Later: Operational threat intelligence depends on AI Agents to reduce noise, accelerate response, and enable real-time, coordinated defense. Cybersecurity is at a tipping point. Attackers are leveraging AI t...
Darktrace Announced the Launch of Darktrace / SECURE AI: Cambridge, UK, Feb. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, today announced the launch of Darktrace / SECURE AI™, a new behavioral AI security product designed ...
Lumai Appoints René Bonvanie as Chair of Its Board of Directors: Founding CMO of Palo Alto Networks Joins to Reinforce Lumai’s Leadership Position for Next-Generation AI Compute Lumai, an AI acceleration startup using optics to address global computational challeng...
Horizon3.ai Strengthens Global Partner Team for Faster Growth: Tim Mackie appointed to lead worldwide channels and alliances, and Marc Inderhees named a 2026 CRN® Channel Chief Horizon3.ai, the leading provider of offensive security solutions, today announced an ...
CYGNVS launches AI Model for Cyber Readiness and Response: First-of-its-kind AI Model is trained on over 20,000 real-world incidents CYGNVS today announced the availability of the CYGNVS AI model for cyber readiness and incident response, a breakthrough in pu...
Jennifer Duman of Skyhawk Security Named a 2026 CRN® Channel Chief: Recognition spotlights Duman’s leadership in scaling Skyhawk’s channel-first strategy and accelerating partner momentum globally Skyhawk Security, the leader in AI-based purple team-powered cloud secu...
Top 10 Must-Know MCP Servers for AI Builders in 2026: AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They read code, deploy apps, run workflows, move money, search the web, and remember what happened last week. MCP servers make that possible by connec...
Zendesk Appoints Craig Flower as Chief Operating Officer: Operations and transformation leader will speed up Zendesk’s shift to becoming an AI-first company and improve teamwork across departments to better serve customers Zendesk recently announced the appo...
Total Economic Impact Study Validates Yubico’s Security ROI: Effectiveness of Yubico’s technology: $5.3 million Net Present Value and $7.3 million in total benefits over three years, driven by 80% faster authentication and reduced help desk burden Yubico (NASDA...
Learning ORDER-Aware Multimodal Representations for Composite Materials Design: arXiv:2602.02513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown remarkable success in materials discovery and property prediction, particularly for crystalline and polymer syst...
Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLP: arXiv:2602.02502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning in natural language processing plays a crucial role in adapting to evolving data and preventing catastrophic forgetting. Despite sig...
UNSO: Unified Newton Schulz Orthogonalization: arXiv:2602.02500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Newton-Schulz (NS) iteration has gained increasing interest for its role in the Muon optimizer and the Stiefel manifold. However, the conventional ...
The Business Impact of AI Deployment (Sponsored): The business impact of AI is clear: faster response times, higher customer satisfaction, reduced operational costs, and data-driven insights that leaders can act on with confidence....
VfL Wolfsburg turns ChatGPT into a club-wide capability: By focusing on people, not pilots, the Bundesliga club is scaling efficiency, creativity, and knowledge—without losing its football identity....

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Efficiency Over Ego: China’s 2026 Pivot Toward Pragmatic AI Agents: China’s 2026 AI roadmap signals a strategic shift from LLM chat paradigms to high-efficiency 'Agentic' AI. Explore the move toward industrial AI+ inte...
Augmenting Parameter-Efficient Pre-trained Language Models with Large Language Models: arXiv:2602.02501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training AI models in cybersecurity with help of vast datasets offers significant opportunities to mi...
What Drives Length of Stay After Elective Spine Surgery? Insights from a Decade of Predictive Modeling: arXiv:2602.02517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: Predicting length of stay after elective spine surgery is essential for optimizing patient...
A Coding Implementation to Train Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning Agents Offline Using Conservative Q-Learning with d3rlpy and Fixed Historical Data: In this tutorial, we build a safety-critical reinforcement learning pipeline that learns entirely from fixed, offline data rather than live exploratio...
Thoughtworks appoints Karthik Srinivasan as Global Head, Agentic AI Platforms: Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, today announced the appointment ...
EPAM Recognized as Leading Application Services IT Vendor for Third Year: Cementing its leadership as a digital and AI transformation partner, EPAM earned “Exceptional Performer” status with outstanding client satisfaction r...

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