AI Reality Check: The Data Quality Crisis No One Wants to Admit
In this week's edition of AI Reality Check, we focus on data, specifically the availability of sufficient data quality. AI is running out of clean, human-generated data. This article exposes the hidden crisis threatening scaling laws, model reliability, and the future of frontier AI.
A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment
Training a modern large language model (LLM) is not a single step but a carefully orchestrated pipeline that transforms raw data into a reliable, aligned, and deployable intelligent system. At its core lies pretraining, the foundational phase where models learn general language patterns, reasoning s...
Mastering Deep Agents: Context Engineering that Actually Works
Deep Agents can plan, use tools, manage state, and handle long multi-step tasks. But their real performance depends on context engineering. Poor instructions, messy memory, or too much raw input quickly degrade results, while clean, structured context makes agents more reliable, cheaper, and easier ...
Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice
Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual generation. Unlike previous iterations that prioritized simple conversion, this release emphasizes natural-language audio tags, native support for more...
5 Practical Tips for Transforming Your Batch Data Pipeline into Real-Time: Upcoming Webinar
Bringing your batch pipeline to real-time requires careful consideration. This post brings you five practical tips to make the most of your modernization efforts. Join us for an upcoming webinar to learn even more.
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Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
From OpenStreetMap to Power BI: Visualizing Wild Swimming Locations
How to turn OpenStreetMap data into an interactive map of wild swimming spots using Overpass API and Power BI.
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AI Is Writing Our Code Faster Than We Can Verify It
This is the third article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, and look for the next article on April 23 on O’Reilly Radar. Here’s the dirty secret of the AI coding revolution: most experienced developers still don’t really...
OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.
Entrust Names Ajay Jindal and Erika Cowen to Senior Leadership Team
Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, announced the appointments of Ajay Jindal as Senior Vice President of Business Process & Automation and Erika Cowen as Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Both leaders report to Tony Ball, CEO of Entrust, and join the company’s ...
Splashtop Launches Unified Platform for Modern IT Operations
With autonomous endpoint management at its core, the AI-assisted, cloud-native platform unifies IT operations, security, remote support, and remote access into one streamlined experience. After 20 years of trusted remote performance, Splashtop® has announced the launch of its unified platform for mo...
ThreatModeler, the leader in AI-driven threat modeling, has appointed Kevin Gallagher as Chief Executive Officer. Gallagher will lead the company’s strategy, go-to-market execution, and post-merger integration following ThreatModeler’s acquisition of IriusRisk, the landmark deal that united the top ...
Q4 acquires Virtua Research, adds AI consensus to IR workflows
Q4 Inc. Acquires Virtua Research to Bring AI-Powered Consensus Management to IR Operations Acquisition adds analyst consensus data to Q4 platform—with Q4’s AI applied to help IR teams identify shifts and proactively manage market expectations Q4 Inc. (Q4), the leading provider of AI-driven IR Ops so...
This simple change stops robot swarms from getting stuck
In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill. Harvard researchers discovered a surprising fix: adding a bit of randomness to how robots move can actually prevent gridlock and boost efficiency. By allowing robots to “wigg...
New Solution Delivers Instant, Package-Level Answers, Decision-Ready Insights and Context Without Dashboards, Spreadsheets, Or Manual Analysis Reveel™, the only Shipping Intelligence™ Platform with Parcel Spend Management 2.0 (PSM 2.0) technology, today announced the launch of Reveel IQ, a new AI-po...
Yobi, Microsoft Partner on AI for Predictive Behavior Insights
Collaboration unlocks unprecedented access to AI-powered personalization for enterprises Yobi and Microsoft technologies propel Wolverine Worldwide Inc.’s (NYSE: WWW) Merrell and Saucony brands to higher ROI and accelerated new customer acquisition across priority audiences Yobi, the leading behavio...
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI
Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual an...
The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercis...