Build Visual AI Agents
Google, in partnership with AI experts Katie Nguyen and Wafae Bakkali, launched a short course titled "AI Agents for Image and Video Generation." The curriculum focuses on building autonomous visual media agents, covering prompt engineering, evaluation pipelines, and end‑to‑end agent deployment with Gemini CLI. Learners will create an image agent that translates brand guidelines into UI mockups and a video agent that produces multi‑scene explainers with synchronized audio. The course aims to equip developers with practical skills to generate and iteratively improve visual content at scale.
AI Agents vs Workflows: What Changed (2026)
The video traces the evolution from rigid workflow automation to LLM‑driven AI agents, emphasizing how breakthroughs such as tool calling and expanding context windows have reshaped automation by 2026. Key insights include the transition from prompt engineering to context engineering as...
The OpenEvidence Episode: Dr. Travis Zack on the Future of Clinical Evidence
In this episode of AI Grand Rounds, host Rajan Ry and co‑host Andy Beam sit down with Dr. Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer of OpenEvidence, to unpack the company’s AI‑driven approach to clinical evidence retrieval. The conversation traces OpenEvidence’s mission...
The Latency Goldilocks Zone Explained
The video explores iFood’s new conversational agent, ILO, which aims to move recommendation engines from a reactive, click‑based model to a proactive, AI‑driven experience. Rafael, head of innovation, and Daniel, data‑science manager, explain how ILO combines a rich user profile...
How Is Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast Using AI?
Hasbro says it is deploying AI unevenly across its businesses: toy teams are using generative tools heavily to go from concept to fully visualized 3D renders, claiming more than an 80% reduction in development time for collectibles and figures. By...
Building MCP Before MCP Existed: Inside Despegar's Sofia Agent
Despegar’s new AI concierge, Sofia, is a home‑grown travel assistant that predates the industry‑wide MCP standard. The company built a multi‑agent platform where a core "brain" called Chappie powers category‑specific flows—flights, hotels, cars, activities—allowing any squad to create and customize...
Compilation Episode (Part 4): How Mid-Career Professionals Can Lead and Grow With AI
Speakers advise mid-career professionals to embrace AI as a practical accelerator for leadership, entrepreneurship and career reinvention. Their experience, proprietary domain knowledge and networks are framed as competitive advantages that let seasoned workers build ‘good enough’ AI-driven products with far...
Scaling AI Deployments
The panel titled “Scaling AI Deployments” highlighted the telecom sector’s urgent need to move beyond isolated AI pilots and embed artificial intelligence into core operations. Speakers from Amdocs, Deutsche Telekom, Tech Mahindra and Orange argued that while proof‑of‑concepts are easy to launch,...
SoftBank’s $60 Billion OpenAI Bet Sparks Concerns
SoftBank’s latest investment surge—raising its OpenAI position from a half‑billion dollars in September 2024 to more than $60 billion within roughly 18 months—has become the focal point of a new governance debate. The move reflects founder‑CEO Masayoshi Son’s unwavering belief that...
I Replaced 9 AI Tools With One Browser (Here's What Happened)
A solo-agency founder recounts replacing nine daily AI tools and workflows with one purpose-built browser, Neo, to eliminate constant tab-switching and task friction. Neo’s “magic box” combines search, AI chat and commands; it provides context-aware responses from the current page,...
Scaling AI Employees: Troubleshooting, Optimization & AIOps
The video walks executives through moving an AI employee from a prototype to a production‑grade system, emphasizing that reliability, predictability, and scalability are essential once the basic “functional” bot is built. It introduces a diagnostic framework built on five independent failure...
Will AI Kill Coding Jobs? Claude Code’s Creator Reacts to 3 Charts
Anthropic creator Boris Churnney argues AI-driven coding tools are at an early, literacy-like inflection point: they will dramatically increase the amount of code and make 'coding' a broadly accessible skill rather than eliminate developers. He points to booming AI demand...
Google Integrates Gemini AI Across All Services In Major Ecosystem Push | CNBC TV18
Google’s I/O 2026 unveiled Gemini as the new operating system powering every Google product, from search to cloud agents and upcoming wearables. The company framed the rollout as the biggest search‑box upgrade in 25 years, adding natural‑language, image, video and...
Can AI Think Like an Engineer?
Akshita Kamsali, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Purdue’s Elmore Family School of ECE, studies deep learning with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing, emphasizing interpretability to prevent spurious or unsafe model decisions in sensitive domains. Her work...
How Anthropic's Head of Industries Built an AI-Native Sales Org From Scratch
Anthropic’s head of industries, Elenore Dorfman, detailed how the company transformed its sales organization after the December 2025 Opus 4.6 launch. The breakthrough in Claude 3’s coding capabilities created a surge in demand that outpaced the existing sales headcount, forcing Anthropic to...
Waymo Takes the Wheel at Google I/O
Google’s I/O developer conference became a live proving ground for Waymo’s robot‑taxi as the company rolled out its first highway‑enabled service in the San Francisco Bay Area. The demonstration placed the autonomous SUV on Highway 101 amid the heavy traffic and road‑block...
Why Your AI Gives Wrong Marketing Answers (And How to Fix It)
The video explains that inaccurate marketing insights from AI are not a flaw in the models but stem from poor‑quality data feeding them. It promotes SuperMetrics as a dedicated data foundation that aggregates hundreds of marketing sources, cleans and standardizes them,...
Inside the INSEAD San Francisco Hub: Dean Francisco Veloso on AI, Innovation & What's Next
INSEAD Dean Francisco Veloso announced a five-year renewal of the school’s San Francisco hub lease and reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to deepening ties with the Bay Area’s AI ecosystem. The hub will host a returning AI forum, student visits, and...
Intelligence Is Collective, Not Artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
Professor Michael I. Jordan argues that the current AI narrative over‑emphasizes artificial, solitary intelligence while ignoring the collective, economic foundations of real‑world systems. He warns that sensationalist talk of AGI and existential risk demoralizes the next generation of engineers, steering...
Agentic AI in Quant Risk Adoption, Open Source and What Comes Next
The LSEG Post‑Trade Solutions podcast explores how agentic AI is reshaping quantitative risk modelling and analytics, highlighting a surge in adoption over the past year as newer AI agents outperform earlier versions. Panelists note that AI now reliably generates synthetic market...
Musk Loses to OpenAI, Linux Drowns in AI Bug Reports and Cyber Risks Rise | Techstrong Gang
A federal jury quickly dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, finding his claims time-barred and undercutting his challenge to the company’s shift from nonprofit roots—while testimony exposed embarrassing behind-the-scenes dealings, including a proposed Musk–Zuckerberg bid to acquire OpenAI and discussions...
Inside the Agentic Red Team — Fighting AI With AI
Techstrong TV introduced Sweet Security’s newest offering, Sweet Attack, a fully automated red‑team platform that leverages cutting‑edge large language models to probe cloud environments for AI‑related weaknesses. The service replaces traditional, infrequent pen‑testing with a continuous, AI‑powered scan that...
GOOGL & Blackstone Deal Pressures CRWV, NBIS & Other Neoclouds #shorts
Google and private‑equity firm Blackstone announced a joint venture to build an AI‑focused cloud platform, backed by an initial $5 billion investment and powered by Google’s in‑house Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). The effort is positioned as a direct challenger to the...
Build Your Next Story with Gemini Omni.
Google announced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal generative model that combines Gemini’s reasoning with advanced media models to create and edit highly realistic videos, images and simulations from any input. Omni advances intuitive physics and world understanding, enabling more accurate...
3 Takeaways From Rick Munarriz and Tim Beyers on Nvidia
The Motley Fool Scoreboard episode spotlights Nvidia (NVDA), rating its business, management, financials, and valuation through a ten‑point lens. Analysts Rick Munarriz and Tim Beyers give the AI‑chip leader high marks, noting its evolution from a gamer‑focused GPU maker to...
What Happens when a Photo, Video, or Fake Identity Gains Access to Healthcare Systems?
FaceTec provides 3D face liveness and biometric-matching technology designed to verify that an online user is a living person and the correct individual before granting access. The system detects photo, video, or deepfake attempts—rejecting non‑live inputs—and binds a liveness‑proven biometric...
AI Dev 26 X SF: Emma McGrattan: Engineering the Context Layer
Emma McGrattan, CTO of Actian, explains that large language models (LLMs) lack any knowledge of an enterprise’s specific data, making a dedicated "context layer" essential for delivering business‑relevant answers. She frames the problem as engineering a data layer that can...
Google’s Gemini Spark Will Work for You While You Sleep
Google unveiled Gemini Spark, a new AI‑driven personal agent built into the Gemini app that operates around the clock on dedicated Google Cloud virtual machines. The service is designed to take direction, execute tasks, and keep users productive without...
AI Dev 26 X SF | Marc Brooker: It's Time to Be Right
Marc Brooker, VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, opened the talk by framing agentic AI as the most exciting frontier in software, yet warned that its commercial potential is capped by defect rates. He outlined a four‑quadrant model of defect...
Buffett AI: Building an AI Agent to Think Like Warren | Wharton Online Webinar
The Wharton Applied Value Investing webinar introduced "Buffett AI," an experiment to encode Warren Buffett’s investment logic into an autonomous AI agent. Presenter Brett Kin explained how the project fits within the program’s goal of teaching systematic stock‑selection techniques and...
Contextual Ads Have Finally Graduated From 'Cookie Backup Plan' Status: Seedtag's Tina Ianacchino
The video features Seedtag’s Tina Ianacchino explaining how contextual advertising has evolved from a mere cookie‑loss safety net into a sophisticated, data‑driven solution. She introduces the company’s NeuroX platform, which layers neuroscience‑based insights onto traditional contextual targeting to read human...
AI Dev 26 X SF | Anush Elangovan: Impact of AI on Software
Anush Elangovan opened the AI Dev 26 x San Francisco session by declaring that artificial intelligence is compressing software‑innovation timelines from decades to mere weeks. He framed the discussion around a "K‑shaped" future of engineering, where systems‑level thinking, judgment and problem...
Google I/O 2026: Our Live Recap and Your Reactions
Google’s I/O 2026 keynote doubled down on AI as the centerpiece of its product roadmap, with Sundar Pichai citing quadrillions of monthly AI tokens processed. The company unveiled a wave of “live” conversational features—Ask YouTube/Ask Play, Docs Live, Gmail Live...
1000x More Powerful Than an RTX 5090
The video showcases Cisco’s UCS H200 server, a rack‑mount system that packs eight Nvidia H200 GPUs – the second‑generation Hopper accelerators – and claims each chip delivers roughly a thousand times the performance of a consumer‑grade RTX 5090. The H200 builds on...
The Secret to AI Pre-Call Planning
Sales leaders often use AI to prepare for first-time client meetings, but generic outputs typically regurgitate public sources like Wikipedia and recent news. The recommended approach is to prompt AI to role-play as the account executive tasked with winning the...
This AI Company Doesn't Even Hide It Anymore
A San Francisco startup, Artisan, has launched a provocative nationwide billboard campaign reading “Stop hiring humans,” promoting its AI-driven virtual sales representatives that perform lead generation, cold email, list building and prospecting. The ads, appearing from San Francisco to New...
Will AI Be a Transformative Force in Medicine or Just Another Disappointment?
The video argues that despite hype, AI may increase healthcare expenditures rather than reduce them, as organizations exploit the technology to boost billing. The speaker highlights that clinicians spend excessive hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and faxing—tasks AI could automate. Yet,...
Employees Want Autonomy. Organizations Don't. | Jake Stauch, Serval
The video highlights a growing clash between employee expectations for autonomous AI agents and enterprise demands for strict control. Workers want cloud‑based agents that can act independently, accessing data and executing tasks without gate‑keeping. Conversely, IT and security teams worry such...
Small Business and AI: Understanding Adoption and Building Support Systems
At a San Francisco Fed event presenting 2024–25 Small Business Credit Survey modules, researchers reported that about 60% of U.S. small businesses are either using or planning to use AI, with employer firms and the larger end of the small‑business...
Generating Novel Scientific Hypotheses with Co-Scientist
The video introduces Co‑Scientist, DeepMind’s multi‑agent AI platform designed to accelerate scientific discovery by automatically scouring the literature and generating testable hypotheses. Researchers face a deluge of data—knowledge doubles every two months and over 17,000 rare diseases exist, with only 5%...
Using AI to Outsmart Drug-Resistant Bacteria
The video addresses the escalating crisis of antimicrobial resistance, describing it as a silent global pandemic that forces the medical community to rethink how antibiotics are discovered and deployed. Traditional drug development struggles to keep pace as bacteria rapidly evolve,...
Healthcare Has a Culture Problem. Can AI Help Fix It?
The Culture Kit episode spotlights a deep‑seated cultural problem in U.S. healthcare: a fragmented organizational model that leaves patients feeling the disarray the moment they walk through a door. Guests Jon Kolstad, a health‑economics professor, and Ted Robertson, executive director...
AI-Powered Lead Gen: The New Way Multi-Location, Franchises and Global Companies Scale
In a webinar led by Neil Patel with NP Digital colleagues Matt Santos and William Kramer, speakers argued that AI is reshaping lead generation for multi-location, franchise and global brands and that firms must rebuild systems to scale reliably. They...
Data Centers In Space? + Planet Labs CEO Talks ‘Large Earth Models’ | The Spillover
The Spillover episode features Planet Labs co‑founder Will Marshall discussing how his company’s constellation of small satellites delivers daily, high‑resolution images of the entire planet and why that data is becoming a cornerstone of modern AI‑driven decision‑making. Marshall explains that the...
What Are LLM Gateways With Detailed Implementation
The video introduces LLM gateways – a smart middleware layer that sits between an application and any number of large‑language‑model providers. By consolidating API calls into a single unified endpoint, developers can swap models, add new vendors, or change credentials...
The AI Super Scientist
The video introduces Alex Zhavoronkov, founder and CEO of In Silico Medicine, showcasing how the company leverages artificial‑intelligence‑driven drug discovery to tackle complex diseases. Using AI, the firm mined massive biomedical datasets to map idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), identified key pathogenic...
You're Using /Goal Wrong (This Way Will Make More Money)
The video explains how to use and upgrade the /goal (slash-goal) command across autonomous agents like Hermes, Codeex and OpenClaw to automate and scale business work. The presenter demonstrates defining clear ‘definition of done’ outcomes, running safe overnight operator loops...
Hardware's Pain Is Software's Gain, Analyzing Small Cap & Yield Activity
Schwab’s Nate Peterson says the recent leadership shift from semiconductors to software looks like a technical mean reversion after an extended, self-reinforcing rally in chips and AI infrastructure. Key tech indexes have broken short-term uptrends and momentum indicators are turning...
NVIDIA Gifted Me This AI Super Computer 🎉
In this video, creator Abhishek showcases the NVIDIA DGX Spark, a $5,000 "AI supercomputer" that NVIDIA gifted him after a brief office visit. The compact box fits on a desk yet packs a 20‑core ARM Grace CPU, 128 GB unified memory,...
Inaugural AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge Sees Youths From 11 Countries Submit over 600 Proposals
The inaugural AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge showcased more than 600 proposals from young innovators across 11 Southeast Asian nations, highlighting AI’s potential beyond commercial use. The event ran alongside an AI‑in‑health symposium where Singapore General Hospital pledged clinical insights...