AI Will Rewrite Employee Experience, And Deep Listening Shows How

Leaders in employee experience (EX), HR, and IT are entering a decisive moment. AI is rapidly reshaping how organizations understand and support their people — but most firms still rely on engagement methods that couldn’t capture the emotional pulse of the workforce even before this latest technology onslaught, much less today. Employees express stress, frustration,…

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Python everywhere—but are we there yet?

How does Python’s new native JIT stack up against PyPy? Is there life for machine learning applications outside of Python? And can we run our Python apps in WebAssembly yet? Keep reading for answers to these and other burning questions from the Python develop-o-sphere. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld CPython vs. PyPy: Which…

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Google unveils API and MCP server for developer documentation

Google is previewing the Developer Knowledge API and an associated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which together offer a machine-readable gateway to the company’s official developer documentation. Announced February 4, the Developer Knowledge API is designed to be the programmatic source of truth for Google’s public documentation. Developers can access documentation from firebase.google.com, developer.android.com, docs.cloud.google.com,…

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Visual Studio Code update shines on coding agents

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, the latest update of the company’s popular code editor. The new release brings multiple enhancements for agents, including improvements for optimization, extensibility, security, and session management. Released February 4 and also known as the January 2026 release, VS Code 1.109 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS…

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OpenScholar Shows Why Grounded AI Matters for Scientific Research

Researchers from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington have developed a new open-source AI model named OpenScholar that they claim can synthesize scientific literature and verifiable citations at a level comparable to a human expert. With millions of scientific papers published every year, it’s challenging to keep up with the…

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Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

Databricks’ Mosaic AI Research team has added a new framework, MemAlign, to MLflow, its managed machine learning and generative AI lifecycle development service. MemAlign is designed to help enterprises lower the cost and latency of training LLM-based judges, in turn making AI evaluation scalable and trustworthy enough for production deployments. The new framework, according to…

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The ‘Super Bowl’ standard: Architecting distributed systems for massive concurrency

In the world of streaming, the “Super Bowl” isn’t just a game. It is a distributed systems stress test that happens in real-time before tens of millions of people. When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a “thundering…

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