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Emerging Tech Demands Drive ERP Modernization in Higher Ed
Modernizing an enterprise resource planning system is one of the most important tasks on any college CIO’s plate, especially with growing demands of interoperability and AI features on the horizon.
Humans + AI = Superintelligent Teams
Adding AI to teams often backfires, combining AI’s limitations with human biases. Solution: Build one shared decision space, define clear hand-offs, and improve with each cycle.
How Alibaba quietly became a leader in AI
From a Hangzhou startup to a global tech powerhouse, uncover the strategies that turned Alibaba into a multi-billion-dollar empire.
Bret Taylor’s Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years
The startup’s rapid growth suggests that enerprises are embracing AI agents.
Curiosity Stream expects to make most of its money from AI deals by 2027
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.
Google starts testing ads in AI Mode
Google has started showing ads in AI mode. They have a “sponsored” label, but look similar to typical links.
Nvidia CEO says the company is in a no-win situation amid AI-bubble chatter, leaked meeting reveals
“The market did not appreciate our incredible quarter,” Huang said.
Streamline AI operations with the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture
In this post, we introduce the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture, which provides guidance for deploying LiteLLM into an AWS environment to streamline the management and governance of production...
Attackers Can Use Poetry To Derail AI Safeguards
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how poetry elides AI safeguards, the new boom in nuclear power, sourcing rare earths from seaweed, and more.
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
The Future of ESM Is Intelligent
AI is transforming enterprise service management. Learn how top platforms are redefining service delivery.
Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times
A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, “Grokipedia,” found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.
Shift from crypto operations to AI infrastructure
Shift from crypto operations to AI infrastructure
Workera is Enabling Skills-Based Talent Strategies Using AI
The software company founded by Kian Katanforoosh lists BCG, Siemens Energy, Eli Lilly, and the U.S. Air Force among its clients.
DOGE Laid Off the Humans. Now the IRS Is Deploying AI Agents
Get ready for a bot to hallucinate your tax bill.
AI mania is making Nvidia a lot of money
AI companies are spending so much on infrastructure that Nvidia’s data center business now brings in nearly $50 billion. But is this sustainable growth or just the latest tech mania? And should we...
How Microsoft’s new security agents help businesses stay a step ahead of AI-enabled hackers
Copilot customers will find the agents embedded in their relevant security and management dashboards.
Top Economist Warns That AI Data Center Investments Are “Digital Lettuce” That’s Already Starting to Wilt
economist and author David McWilliams told Fortune that AI hardware investments are “digital lettuce” that are going to go “off.”
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Living The Frontier Lifestyle
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft outlined a vision for the “frontier” organization: One dramatically transformed through AI and AI agents. The more than 20,000-person crowd was treated to demos that...
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Lot Of Really Big Deals
Perhaps venture investors wanted to get their term sheets squared away in advance of the holiday season. Or maybe AI, despite all the bubble talk, is still heating up in...
Ads Are Coming to Google’s AI Mode: Here’s What They Look Like
The ads will be labeled as sponsored, much like they are in traditional Google Search.
Here’s What VCs Want to See Before They Fund Your AI Startup
A venture capitalist offers advice on securing funding for AI ventures.
20x Faster TRL Fine-tuning with RapidFire AI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
The Bacon & the Skillet: When Does the AI Market Congeal?
The AI market is sizzling with innovation, but when will market share stabilize? An exploration of switching costs, model improvements, & the moment the fat congeals.
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Gas Prices Go Up?
There used to be a familiar sight when traveling west on U.S. Route 22 and coming down Chestnut Ridge toward Pittsburgh — the massive cooling towers and chimneys of the...
Expanding Use of Artificial Intelligence Into Employment and Labor Practice: Legislative Response and Legal Implications
Over the past fifteen years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly embedded in the legal field, often in ways that were not widely anticipated. While it was initially expected that...
Georgia Rep. Mike Collins’ campaign uses AI-generated deepfake of Senator Jon Ossoff in tight Senate showdown
A new political ad in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race is raising concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in elections after Rep. Mike Collins’ campaign released a deepfake video showing...
Google DeepMind hires Boston Dynamics CTO, deepens push into robotics
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis wants to speed up the progress of robotics, and use his company’s multimodal Gemini model as a sort of operating system.
Ubisoft Sets Generative-AI Game ‘Teammates’ From ‘Neo NPC’ Developers: ‘Our Role Is to Give AI Meaning, to Narrativize It’
Ubisoft is debuting new game experience “Teammates” from the developers behind its 2024 project “Neo NPC,”
Microsoft has yet to ignite enthusiasm for agentic AI
Despite pivotal announcements at Ignite, implementing agentic AI at scale will demand deep enterprise restructuring, analysts say.
White House Trying to Axe Bill Forcing Nvidia, AMD to Prioritize US GPU Buyers
White House AI czar David Sacks has reportedly been leading the charge to kill the GAIN AI Act, which Nvidia says ‘would restrict competition worldwide.’
The inevitable has happened: Ads on Google Search’s AI Mode are here
Google Search AI Mode users are starting to see ads appear in results. These ads are shown as sponsored content.
Google Unleashes Gemini 3 on New Nano Banana Pro AI Image Generator
Nano Banana Pro can generate text in multiple languages and handle up 14 images per prompt.
Anthropic’s new warning: If you train AI to cheat, it’ll hack and sabotage too
Models trained to cheat at coding tasks developed a propensity to plan and carry out malicious activities, such as hacking a customer database.
All the hottest tech needs to be so, so cold
Startup Interlune has signed $500 million in contracts to supply helium-3 gas to help keep AI and quantum computing devices running cold. Their next helium search is in space.
Google AI Mode is starting to show ads in search results
Just like sponsored cards that appear in any normal Google Search results, ads are reportedly starting to creep into AI…
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us?
Why ‘yoga pants and cheeseburgers’ matter more than AI for the latest economic outlook
Retail earnings are being closely watched
Daily briefing: What happens to science if the ‘AI bubble’ bursts?
Nature – An artificial-intelligence market crash could drive AI researchers back into academia, experts say. Plus, the ethics of brain implants that detect ‘preconscious’ thoughts and a…
In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.