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Anthropic Releases Updated Constitution for Claude
Anthropic has published an updated constitution for Claude, its AI assistant, providing a structured framework that guides behavior, reasoning, and training. The constitution combines explicit principles with contextual guidance, making it a practical tool for improving alignment, safety, and reliability in real-world interactions.
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Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage
Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s MySQL-based distributed databases, by colocating control with storage, prioritizing critical traffic, and dynamically shedding load under overload conditions.
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Building Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive
Continuous learning, adaptability, and strong support networks are the foundations for thriving teams, Matthew Card mentioned. Trust is built through consistent, fair leadership and addressing toxic behaviour, bias, and microaggressions early. By fostering growth, psychological safety, and accountability, people-first leadership drives resilience, collaboration, and performance.
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Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models
Google DeepMind researchers have introduced ATLAS, a set of scaling laws for multilingual language models that formalize how model size, training data volume, and language mixtures interact as the number of supported languages increases.
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Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their decision to make the product completely and open source, in order to foster adoption and community contribution.
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Railway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure
Railway’s engineering team published a comprehensive guide to observability, explaining how developers and SRE teams can use logs, metrics, traces, and alerts together to understand and diagnose production system failures.
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Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models
Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating the need for separate Kubernetes or Vertex AI management. Key features include automated resource governance via endpoint_idle_ttl and secure identity-based execution using existing data warehouse permissions.
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Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation
Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter variants designed to support machine translation across 55 languages and to run on platforms ranging from mobile and edge devices to consumer hardware and cloud accelerators.
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.NET 10 Becomes Available on AWS Lambda as Managed Runtime and Base Image
Amazon Web Services has announced that AWS Lambda now supports the creation of serverless applications using .NET 10. With this update, developers can use .NET 10 both as a managed runtime and as a container-based image when building and running Lambda functions.
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HTML Invoker Commands Achieve Baseline Support across All Major Browsers
The HTML Invoker Commands API revolutionizes web interactivity by enabling developers to create button controls for popovers and dialogs without JavaScript. Supported across major browsers, it streamlines user experience and enhances page load speeds. This declarative approach fosters accessibility and empowers developers, marking a significant step towards reduced JavaScript dependencies.
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Java News Roundup: Oracle Critical Patch Update, Grizzly 5, Payara Platform, GraalVM, Liberica JDK
This week's Java roundup for January 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3, targeted for JDK 27; GlassFish Grizzly 5.0; the quarterly release of the Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory; the January 2026 edition of the Payara Platform; and maintenance releases of Liberica JDK, GraalVM, OpenXava and Ktor.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Introduce Healthcare-Focused AI Platforms
OpenAI and Anthropic have announced new healthcare-oriented AI offerings that extend their models beyond general conversational use and into regulated clinical and life sciences environments. Both releases emphasize technical integration, interoperability, and governance, reflecting a shift toward AI systems designed to operate directly within existing healthcare infrastructure.
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Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decouples access control from code using a verifiable, high-performance policy engine. Cedar supports RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC, offering a secure, analyzable alternative to general-purpose tools like OPA.
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Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language
Innovative programmer Steve Klabnik, known for his contributions to Rust, unveils Rue, a new systems programming language that enhances memory safety without garbage collection. Designed with developer ergonomics in mind, Rue leverages "inout" parameters to simplify ownership management while collaborating with Anthropic's Claude AI to expedite development. Explore Rue at rue-lang.dev.
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Google Releases Gemma 3 270M Variant Optimized for Function Calling on Mobile and Edge Devices
FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents to "do more than just talk" and act.