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Alejandro Saucedo | KubeCon 2025 Europe AI Keynote
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Zalando Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics | Advisor at the UN, EU Commission, ACM, Institute for Ethical AI & others
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Workflow orchestration is the backbone of production ML, so it was quite interesting to see the recent integration between Kubeflow (yes still alive!) and Metaflow:

Blog: blog.kubeflow.org/metaflow/
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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"What should a self-driving car do if a hurricane appears in-front of it?" - These are the corner cases that are hard or impossible to train models on, which is why it's exciting to see World Models in practice:

Announcement: waymo.com/blog/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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RecSys ranking is shaping what billions of people watch, buy, and believe, so small improvements (or mistakes) can have a huge impact on user experience - this is a great resource that explores LLM RLHF style approaches in recommender systems:

Post: recsysml.substack.com/p/stop-predi...
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Build TikTok's Personalized Real-Time Recommendation System from Scratch:

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skZ1...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps #augmentedintelligence #deeplearning #privacy #kubernetes #datascience #python #bigdata
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The 7 deadly sins of engineering productivity: strategizeyourcareer.com/p/the-7-dead...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps #augmentedintelligence #deeplearning #privacy #kubernetes #datascience #python #bigdata
January 28, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Anthropic has publicly released their recruitment take-home, and it has a lot of quite interesting learnings for both indvidual contributors but also hiring managers:

Take home test: github.com/anthropics/o...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The agentic stack continues to evolve at lightning speed, this past week with the release of FastMCP 3.0:

Announcement: www.jlowin.dev/blog/fastmcp...

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January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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OpenAI shared this week how they scaled their database to 800 million users, an there are some interesting surprises:

Blog: openai.com/index/scalin...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps #augmentedintelligence #deeplearning
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Anyone that has run A/B tests for RecSys evaluation knows the challenges, which is why it was super interesting to come across Eugene Yan's Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems:

Blog post: eugeneyan.com/writing/coun...

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January 20, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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METR has released an in-depth study that measures the ability for LLM agents to solve long tasks, and there's quite a lot of interesting insights:

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.14499
Post: metr.org/blog/2025-03...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Sebastian Raschka has put together an overview on the evolution of LLM architectures, together with the most comprehensive set of intuitive visual diagrams.

Latest Update: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
January 13, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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"21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google"

addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

This really is a great list as it reminds all of us how some of the most challenging and useful lessons are often not related to the code but to the soft skills and people interactions.
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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The Databases 2025 Year-in-Review from Carnegie Mellon University is out! As always there are some great insights on database trends across last year:

Link: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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OpenRouter has just dropped an in-depth analysis from 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM usage, and has shared some really interesting findings from the ecosystem in 2025:

Link: openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

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January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Simon Willison shared his 2025 year review on LLMs and as always there are some really great insights: 2025 was the year where LLMs became genuinely useful production tools thanks to RLVR, tool-use, multi-step workflows, etc.

Year in Review: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/...

#ML #AI
January 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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The level of ML maturity of organisations in 2025 has slowly increased, and we have interesting insights on organisational departments/functions from our Prod ML Survey: ethical.institute/state-of-ml-... 🔥

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January 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Sebastian Raschka has dropped a year in review on LLMs in 2025 together with predictions for 2026, and as always there's some really insigthful thoughts, here's the summary from Sebastian himself: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Super excited to see that our Github repo on Prod ML just hit 20,000 stars 🚀 It's hard to believe how much this has grown since starting this list back in 2018 to map the prod ML ecosystem github.com/EthicalML/aw...

Here is to the next 200 contributors, 2k forks and 20k stars!
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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What better way to kick off 2026 than with a FREE O'Reilly Python Data Science book with 500+ pages of hands-on practical exercises and tutorials:

Free book: jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataSc...

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January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The results are in for 2025 ETL Orchestration Providers in Production ML, and the data reflects what we saw this year:

If you want to dive deeper you can access the full results here: ethical.institute/state-of-ml-... 🔥

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December 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This is a really interesting retrospective review of text-to-sql GenAI systems from Vercel sharing learnings that allow them to significantly improve performance:

vercel.com/blog/we-remo...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Andrej Karpathy has put together his 2025 year in review for LLMs! Some really interesting insights:

Year in Review: karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-revi...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Check out the Top 10 Python Libraries in 2025! Here's the list for both AI tools, as well as general tools:

Check out this great list: tryolabs.com/blog/top-pyt...

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December 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Out of the blue the ZenML team dropped a report on 1000+ case studies in LLMOps - check it out! Some key highlights:

Report: www.zenml.io/blog/what-12...
LLMOps Database: www.zenml.io/llmops-datab...

#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps
December 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The results are in for 2025 GenAI providers in Production ML, and the data reflects what we saw this year:

If you want to dive deeper you can access the full results here: ethical.institute/state-of-ml-... 🔥
December 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM