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Google Cloud and Intel deepen AI chip partnership
Google Cloud and Intel have expanded their multiyear alliance, adding Intel’s Xeon 6 processors to Google’s AI, cloud and inference workloads and committing to co‑develop custom ASIC‑based infrastructure processing units (IPUs) that offload data‑center management tasks from CPUs. The IPU effort, launched in 2021, aims to free core resources for compute‑intensive AI workloads.
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By the numbers: Meow Technologies raises $30M in venture funding
AI deployment in claims processing now forces organizations to adopt real‑time instrumentation, exposing a decades‑long blind spot in operational visibility. Traditional dashboards offered static, delayed metrics, while AI’s speed and scale demand continuous monitoring of model outputs, drift, and edge cases. Modern process‑mining, NLP, and data‑pipeline tools make this measurement infrastructure cheaper and faster to build. The result is a real‑time operational picture that shifts meetings from data‑driven storytelling to focused exception handling, unlocking efficiency and strategic clarity.
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...
Clearview Federal Credit Union, serving 140,000 members in the Pittsburgh area, is accelerating AI adoption under CIO Raymond George. The credit union has deployed ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Zest’s Lulu to automate tasks ranging from HR and BI analysis to fraud...
California employers are confronting new AI regulations that could expose them to discrimination claims. Weintraub Tobin attorneys explain how AI tools used in hiring, performance management, and monitoring may trigger Title VII, the ADA, and the state’s Fair Employment and...
Agentic AI now has its own “Periodic Table” 🧪🤖 From: LLM, RAG, RL to PLAN, MAS, LTM to SAFE, HUMAN oversight to HR, MKT, LEGAL use cases Autonomous AI = memory + planning + tools + safety + collaboration. It’s a system, not a prompt. Credit: Prem...
"AI gets celebrated like the messiah of productivity, but instead of actually offsetting the workload, it's just raised the bar on what people are supposed to accomplish" Thanks for including my thoughts Katelyn Chedraoui https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/social-media-professionals-burnout-ai-metricool-news/
The Verge explains how leading newsrooms such as The New York Times, Bellingcat and Indicator combat deep‑fake misinformation after high‑profile conflicts. Reporters follow a four‑step workflow: meticulous visual inspection, vetting source reputation, tracing the digital footprint, and confirming date and location with...
Every company I talk to says that agents are the future. AGI is here. One person with AI will beat entire teams. Then they force everyone back to the office. You can't have it both ways. If you genuinely believe...
If you want to stay relevant in AI by 2026, don’t just learn tools — master systems. Here are 9 AI skills that actually compound: • Multimodal AI (text + image + audio + video) • AI Tool Stacking • LLM Evaluation & Management •...
JetStream Security announced a $34 million seed round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from CrowdStrike’s Falcon Fund and notable angels such as George Kurtz, Assaf Rappaport, and Frederic Kerrest. The startup, founded by veterans of CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, McAfee and other...
GPT-5.3 Instant is rolling out in ChatGPT starting today. We heard the feedback on 5.2 – sometimes too cautious, too many caveats, and conversations that didn’t flow as naturally as they should. 5.3 Instant tackles that with fewer unnecessary refusals, fewer defensive...
NielsenIQ’s new Growth Frontier report, created with Kearney, shows artificial intelligence reshaping CPG innovation and discovery. Over the past three years niche brands added 1.5 percentage points of U.S. market share while large national brands fell 2.1 points, highlighting a shift...
Enterprises are grappling with a Gartner recommendation to ban AI‑enabled browsers, citing data leakage, unknown third‑party connections, and prompt‑injection threats. Yet LayerX research shows roughly 20% of corporate users already run GenAI extensions, and AI browsers now power about 85%...
Harvard researcher Dr. Adam Rodman warns that more than one‑third of U.S. adults are already turning to large language models like ChatGPT for medical advice, despite widespread gaps in digital health literacy. Many patients struggle to download their own records...
Moments Lab will unveil its next‑generation multimodal, agentic AI capabilities at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The company’s Discovery Agent lets video teams retrieve clips, quotes and precise moments using plain‑language prompts, reporting over 50% user adoption and...
NEAR co‑founder Illia Polosukhin says artificial‑intelligence agents will become the primary users of blockchain, positioning AI as the front‑end interface and the ledger as the back‑end. He argues that wallets, explorers and transaction hashes will be abstracted away, letting AI...
In this episode, philosopher Robert Long discusses the emerging ethical challenge of AI consciousness, warning that humans historically struggle to understand and care for minds unlike their own, which could lead to a form of AI "factory farming" where sentient...
Chinese EV maker XPeng announced its second‑generation Vision‑Language‑Action autonomous driving system, VLA 2.0, will enter global delivery in 2027, with Volkswagen as the first launch partner in China. The new architecture replaces the traditional sequential vision‑language‑action pipeline with an end‑to‑end vision‑to‑action...
🎯 What is Thresholding? Thresholding is a simple but powerful computer vision trick: 📷 Input: Grayscale image ➡️ Output: Binary image (black & white) ✨ It makes hidden details pop out — numbers that were hard to see suddenly become crystal clear. 🧠 And just...
Every team call and customer meeting is now a copywriting gold mine. Let's riff on the topic right now. On the call. Take the transcript later. Work with Claude. Create briefs for events, webinars, emails, landing pages. If you can talk it...
Papua New Guinea is advancing its digital public infrastructure (DPI) with a pilot that uses the SevisPass digital ID and SevisWallet app to enable remote KYC for online bank account openings, led by MiBank and the government. The rollout is...
In this episode Matt Cohen and John Ruffalo recap the Upfront Summit, highlighting the surge in AI-driven venture tools, the intense focus on space tech, and the geopolitical push for U.S. AI standards. They critique the wave of AI‑justified layoffs,...
New episode of Uncapped with Y Combinator's leadership, @garrytan, @harjtaggar and @snowmaker. We talked about YC's core value prop, how AI is changing the process of finding product market fit and raising capital, San Francisco and California, the future of YC,...
EY’s product development team boosted coding productivity four‑ to five‑fold by wiring AI coding agents into its engineering standards, code repositories, and compliance frameworks. The initiative required an 18‑ to 24‑month effort to embed cultural acceptance and technical integrations, moving...
In this video, Nico, our video producer, runs a live experiment - he builds a fully functional mood-tracking app with no coding skills, just his Second Brain and Claude Cowork He pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy notes he saved years ago,...
Anthropic’s Claude suffered a widespread login outage early this week, while the API remained functional. The disruption arrived as Claude topped Apple’s App Store and the company amplified its "Claude for Financial Services" push, embedding the model in Excel, PowerPoint,...
Revenium announced the general availability of its Tool Registry, a platform that gives enterprises end‑to‑end visibility into the true cost of AI agent deployments. The solution goes beyond token‑level tracking by capturing fees from external APIs, SaaS services, and human‑in‑the‑loop...
Working on building a Responsible AI Workforce Readiness solution designed specifically for California counties — helping public sector teams adopt AI safely, ethically, and in compliance with emerging state regulations. What are you working on?
In this episode, host Jaden Schaefer breaks down the evolving criteria VCs use to evaluate AI startups in 2026, emphasizing a shift toward AI that directly completes tasks rather than superficial chat‑based layers. He cites insights from investors like Aaron...
Data analytics is reshaping risk assessment from a reactive practice into a predictive science across finance, insurance, healthcare, and transportation. Predictive modeling, machine‑learning, and real‑time dashboards now enable firms to forecast exposure, micro‑segment customers, and allocate capital with greater confidence....
Small language models (SLMs) are gaining attention in the generative AI field. SLMs are trained on relatively small amounts of data and have a relatively small number of parameters. SLM can be more practical than large language models as they are...
Lots of people commenting on this quitting of @Alibaba_Qwen's top leader. Wondering what it means for Qwen now, will be hard to replace.
Insightsoftware unveiled Simba Intelligence, an AI analytics platform that delivers deterministic insights directly from live enterprise data. The solution supports cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments through a zero‑data‑movement architecture, eliminating the need for data replication. It embeds audit trails, enterprise...
Our colleagues at @NVIDIARobotics have released Isaac ROS 4.2 which adds: 🤖NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware support 🤖JetPack 7.1 and Jetson T4000 support 🤖Improved visual mapping localization workflows 🤖FoundationStereo v. 2 🤖A new sim-to-real tutorial w/ a @Universal_Robot ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/adIHQ2UADv
Claude Code reached LinkedIn We're COOKED 😱 This guy literally exposed his API keys on the front end, got exploited, charged 175 customers $500 each by mistake.. .. then burned $2.5K in Stripe fees before fixing it 😅 https://t.co/WPDCXipLSF
Grotto AI announced a $10 million seed round led by ICONIQ and Asymmetric, bringing its total funding to $14 million. The startup offers real‑time AI coaching that listens to leasing calls and tours, surfacing high‑impact behaviors such as humor and genuine curiosity...
Why the convergence of AI and cybersecurity must be a top priority for the administration https://t.co/TbGhk0BYOE https://t.co/EiVI3kNYsI
Incredible conversation with @emilmichael. - Lessons from tech for the Pentagon - Peacetime vs wartime speed - Making applied AI his #1 focus - The AI race with China - Commercial AI in the Pentagon https://t.co/xQpz6pZAQK
Deloitte and ServiceNow released the 2026 Workflow Automation Outlook, highlighting a move from siloed automation projects to unified, AI‑enabled workflow ecosystems. The report identifies five trends—AI‑ready architecture, AI‑core process redesign, governance as a growth engine, service‑led CRM, and outcome‑focused transformation—that...
So X will no longer help fund toxic fake AI videos of the war. Unless it’s properly labeled? Baby steps I suppose. Will they continue to suppress posts of external links to reliable news brands with journalists literally on the...
Standardizing multicloud configs from a single set of requirements is finally viable. Think: genAI translating an AWS IAM role -> Azure Role Definition or a CloudFormation template -> Google Deployment Manager config. #IAM #CISO #Cloud https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
Microsoft Foundry now offers Mistral Document AI 2512, a hybrid OCR and document‑understanding model that combines high‑precision text extraction with layout and multilingual awareness. Benchmarks show roughly 95.9% overall OCR accuracy and 99%+ accuracy on many languages, surpassing competing platforms....
1/8 Do you own your vibe-coded app or the art you generated using mid-journey? Short answer: No. I am not a lawyer, but this is my ai-assisted reading of the law. Here’s how U.S. copyright law is treating AI-generated works. Disclaimer: This...
AI May Disrupt Software, But Networks Are the Real Moat - https://t.co/LqKYpiRYXJ @joinindago @ManhAssocBNL @Appian #SCON #supplychain #logistics #businessnetworks #AI
Elsevier announced major upgrades to ClinicalKey AI, adding full‑text content from more than 130 premium journals and leading medical societies such as The Lancet, NEJM, and the American College of Cardiology. The platform now offers real‑time traceability, linking each answer...
Google still runs search. Lots of gurus on here are lying to you by suggesting that Google is dead. The reality says otherwise. Remember: Two things can be true at once. • Google still owns search • AI Search is...
🚨 Absolute madness. You can now turn a single text prompt into a fully playable video game 🤯 → Worlds that take shape → Mechanics that interact → Gameplay that actually works → Single AND multiplayer All generated in seconds and running entirely in your browser...
Securing Kiro CLI Custom AI Agents 🤖 Configuring multiple agents to work with Kiro CLI in individual sandboxes https://t.co/Bt0CxhDK5j https://t.co/Z4WJtwDoms
i guess we’re moving on from DoW drama to celebrating a new chinese model drop
Enterprise hits and misses - #CIOs contrast #AI results versus reality, while the #Block 'AI washing' debate erupts https://t.co/DKwHuAgBnT by @jonerp. #EnSw
