Hugging Face AI Updates: September 3, 2026

1. IBM Time Series Foundation Models Become Callable From Flink SQL

Hugging Face. IBM Research published a walkthrough of four time series foundation models now callable natively from Confluent Cloud via Apache Flink: PatchTST-FM, which reads series patch-by-patch with separate channels per variable and returns a full distribution; FlowState, which keeps a running summary with continuous-time dynamics to handle varied sampling rates; TTM, a 1M-parameter mixing network sized for CPU inference over large series volumes; and TSPulse, a multi-task model for anomaly detection, classification, and gap-filling. Two SQL functions, AI_FORECAST and AI_DETECT_ANOMALIES, expose the models, and switching models is a single parameter change rather than a pipeline redesign. The integration is in Early Access on Confluent Cloud for AWS, with Confluent Platform support stated as next. Source