AI agents will change how we all work and live. Our AWS CEO, Matt Garman, shared a vision of a technological shift as transformative as the advent of the internet. I’m energized by this vision because I’ve witnessed firsthand how these intelligent agent systems are already beginning to solve complex problems, automate workflows, and create…
This post is co-written with Mark Berkeland, Oscar Rodriguez and Marina Gerzon from Vonage. Voice-based technologies are transforming the way businesses engage with customers across customer support, virtual assistants, and intelligent agents. However, creating real-time, expressive, and highly responsive voice interfaces still requires navigating a complex stack of communication protocols, AI models, and media infrastructure….
The industry is finding a willing partner in the Trump administration. Since taking office, Trump has used AI as a lever to open up opportunities for fossil fuels, including a well-publicized effort to resuscitate coal in the name of more computing power. The summit, which was organized by Republican senator (and former hedge fund CEO)…
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While the impact of AI on tech hubs like San Francisco and Boston is already being felt, AI proponents believe it will transform work everywhere, and in every industry. The report uses various proxies for what the researchers call “AI readiness” to document how unevenly this supposed transformation is taking place. Here are four charts…
A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step toward much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a…
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei is joining Meta’s new superintelligence lab, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Wei worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, according to his personal website. He joined OpenAI in 2023 after a stint at Google, where he worked on chain-of-thought research, which involves training an AI model to…
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12 billion. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, and AMD—among others. The mammoth investment reflects the ultracompetitive race to build…
This is a guest post co-written with Rahul Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar Veerlapati, Rahmat Khan, and Mudit Chopra from PayU. PayU offers a full-stack digital financial services system that serves the financial needs of merchants, banks, and consumers through technology. As a Central Bank-regulated financial institution in India, we recently observed a surge in our employees’…
This post was co-written with Mohammad Jama, Yun Kim, and Barry Eom from Datadog. The emergence of generative AI agents in recent years has transformed the AI landscape, driven by advances in large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP). The focus is shifting from simple AI assistants to Agentic AI systems that can…
