On March 26, Addy Osmani and I are hosting the third O’Reilly AI Codecon, and this time we’re taking on the question of what software craftsmanship looks like when AI agents are writing much of the code. The subtitle of this event, “Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI,” was meant to be provocati...
How Vision Language Models Are Trained from “Scratch”
A deep dive into exactly how text-only language models are finetuned to *see* images
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The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’
According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history — Google’s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 ...
Unlocking the power of data: How we built text-to-SQL with agentic RAG at Rocket Mortgage
Your company’s data holds answers, but accessing them is often the hard part. Here’s how Rocket Mortgage built a text-to-SQL system with agentic RAG to make data accessible to everyone.
Personalized Restaurant Ranking with a Two-Tower Embedding Variant
How a lightweight two-tower model improved restaurant discovery when popularity ranking failed
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Nametag Secures Patents for Human Identity Verification
New patents reinforce an emerging security category focused on human identity verification As generative AI makes impersonation attacks dramatically easier and AI agents begin acting on behalf of employees, organizations are confronting a new security challenge: confirming the real human behind digi...
UiPath Expands Strategic Alliance with Deloitte to Launch Agentic ERP
New Agentic ERP offering embeds AI-enabled orchestration to drive autonomous enterprise operations UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in agentic automation, today announced it is expanding its alliance with Deloitte through the launch of Deloitte’s Agentic ERP offering. The offering helps organiza...
Corvex Announced the Launch of Secure Model Weights
Patent-pending solution gives AI model builders and security-conscious enterprises cryptographic, owner-controlled key custody, protecting model weights from even the infrastructure provider Corvex, Inc., an engineering-led AI infrastructure platform, today announced the early availability of Corvex...
LabConnect Expands Global Central Laboratory Infra with Wuxi, China Facility
LabConnect, a leading provider of technology-driven central laboratory services and functional service provider solutions for clinical trials, today announced the grand opening of its new facility in Wuxi, China. As clinical trials become increasingly global and complex, sponsors are seeking laborat...
Blue Yonder Expands Agentic AI for Supply Chain Execution
Blue Yonder today announced an expanded set of AI agents and role-specific mobile applications for its end-to-end planning and execution solutions. These updates to its Cognitive Solutions are built around real customer use cases and feedback to help businesses make smarter, faster, more accurate de...
A few years into the AI shift, the gap between engineers is not talent. It’s coordination: shared norms and a shared language for how AI fits into everyday engineering work. Some teams are already getting real value. They’ve moved beyond one-off experiments and started building repeatable ways of wo...
New research institution brings rigor and standards to the AI data layer, launching with participation from five of the world’s leading AI companies Protege, an AI data platform providing trusted, real-world data at scale, today announced DataLab at Protege, a new research institution advancing the ...
Unique AI Software Platform Enables Enterprises to Build, Deploy, and Improve Visual Models Quickly Across Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, and Other Industries Solidigm, a pioneer in enterprise data storage, today announced the launch of the LucetaTM AI Software Suite, a breakthrough AI vision pla...
Zscaler Expands Global Sovereignty on Zero Trust Exchange Platform
New Regions and Enhanced Local Control Plane Allow Enterprises to Navigate Complex Global Regulations Without Sacrificing Speed, Security or Uptime Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, today announced a significant expansion of its data sovereignty capabilities globally, powered...
Technology and Engineering Veteran Joins ServiceTitan to Lead AI-First Innovation and Product Strategy for the Trades Industry ServiceTitan (Nasdaq: TTAN), the software platform that powers the trades, today announced the appointment of Abhishek “Abhi” Mathur as its Chief Technology and Product Offi...
F5 Advances Enterprise AppSec for the AI and Post-quantum Era
New security innovations in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform unify AI-driven protection, zero trust access, and post-quantum readiness across hybrid multicloud environments Today at AppWorld, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, unveiled...
HIMSS Survey: 60% of Hospitals Struggle to Secure Unmanaged Medical Devices
Leaders rank avoiding clinical downtime as their top microsegmentation priority, yet 40% say fear of disruption blocks adoption Elisity, the pioneer in identity-based microsegmentation, today announced the release of The Implementation Paradox: Healthcare Leaders Want Microsegmentation-Level Securit...
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Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and impacted humans, a ...
Cybersecurity Teams Adopt Sweep to Secure Salesforce Environments
Wiz, SailPoint, Vanta, Varonis, and other security companies use Sweep’s agentic layer to manage complex Salesforce environments. Sweep, the agentic layer for enterprise systems, today announced that leading cybersecurity and identity companies, including SailPoint, Varonis, Vanta, and Wiz, have ado...
Wonderful Lands $150M Series B to Expand AI Across 30+ Markets
Insight Partners leads the round as Wonderful scales its hyper-local operating model worldwide Wonderful, the enterprise AI agent platform, today announced it has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing invest...
Google AI Introduces ‘Groundsource’: A New Methodology that Uses Gemini Model to Transform Unstructured Global News into Actionable, Historical Data
Google AI Research team recently released Groundsource, a new methodology that uses Gemini model to extract structured historical data from unstructured public news reports. The project addresses the lack of historical data for rapid-onset natural disasters. Its first output is an open-source datase...