AI has evolved at an astonishing pace. What seemed like science fiction just a few years ago is now an undeniable reality. Back in 2017, my firm launched an AI Center of Excellence. AI was certainly getting better at predictive analytics and many machine learning (ML) algorithms were being used for voice recognition, spam detection, spell checking (and other applications) — but it was early. We…
Netflix Games loses its vice-president of generative AI
March 13, 2025
Five months after Netflix Games announced that generative AI in its game development studios would be a major focus for them, driven by the promotion of Mike Verdu to the vice president in charge of that technology, Verdu has apparently left Netflix Games (confirmed to…
ServiceNow expands AI offerings with pre-built agents, targeting broader enterprise adoption
March 13, 2025
ServiceNow believes that more areas within an enterprise can benefit from agents, and as it upgrades its agent platform and makes acquisitions, the company plans on doubling down on agents even more.
ServiceNow announced the acquisition of Moveworks on Tuesday along with new…
Google’s native multimodal AI image generation in Gemini 2.0 Flash impresses with fast edits, style transfers
March 13, 2025
Google’s latest open source AI model Gemma 3 isn’t the only big news from the Alphabet subsidiary today.No, in fact, the spotlight may have been stolen by Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash with native image generation, a new experimental model available for free to users of Google AI Studio and to developers through Google’s Gemini API.It marks the first time a major U.S. tech company has shipped…
Anthropic’s stealth enterprise coup: How Claude 3.7 is becoming the coding agent of choice
March 12, 2025
While consumer attention has focused on the generative AI battles between OpenAI and Google, Anthropic has executed a disciplined enterprise strategy centered on coding — potentially the most valuable enterprise AI use case. The results are becoming increasingly clear…
OpenAI is rolling out a new suite of APIs and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI-powered agents more efficiently. These are delivered atop some of the very same technology powering its own first-party AI agents Deep Research (which scours the internet…
Sony testing AI to drive PlayStation characters
March 12, 2025
As a company and first-party platform, PlayStation and Sony have not shied away from using AI as part of their value proposal to consumers. While competitor Microsoft has made a big show about using it for game ideation and prototyping, Sony has instead focused on using AI and machine-learning for frame generation and hardware uses, largely staying away from experimenting with its acclaimed…
Even as large language models (LLMs) become ever more sophisticated and capable, they continue to suffer from hallucinations: offering up inaccurate information, or, to put it more harshly, lying. Mayo Clinic, one of the top-ranked hospitals in the U.S., has adopted a novel…
How Yelp reviewed competing LLMs for correctness, relevance and tone to develop its user-friendly AI assistant
March 10, 2025
The review app Yelp has provided helpful information to diners and other consumers for decades. It had experimented with machine learning since its early years. During the recent explosion in AI technology, it was still encountering stumbling blocks as it worked to employ…
Once upon a time, software ate the world. Now, AI is here to digest what’s left. The old model of computing, where apps ruled, marketplaces controlled access and platforms took their cut, is unraveling. What’s emerging is an AI-first world where software functions aren’t trapped inside apps but exist as dynamic, on-demand services accessible through AI-native interfaces.
For decades…
