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Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries

July 1, 2025
When people started to talk about AI agents and assistants, the number one use case revolved around travel. Could someone be watching a video about the Maldives and direct their AI agent to start finding flights and hotels, and book these seamlessly? We‘re inching closer to a similar future as the travel industry begins to embrace agentic AI. Kayak and Expedia, two of the largest companies in…
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Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

June 30, 2025
In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing useful real-world tasks by 2027. Scientific discovery will…
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Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins

June 27, 2025
The gloves came off at Tuesday at VB Transform 2025 as alternative chip makers directly challenged Nvidia’s dominance narrative during a panel about inference, exposing a fundamental contradiction: How can AI inference be a commoditized “factory” and command 70% gross margins? Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, didn’t mince words when discussing Nvidia’s carefully crafted messaging. “AI…
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IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case

June 26, 2025
Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP of AI Platform at IBM detailed how Big Blue is thinking about generative AI and how its enterprise users are actually deploying the technology. A key theme that Ruiz emphasized is that at this point, it’s not…
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