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AI’s promise is undeniable, but so are its blindsiding security costs at the inference layer. New attacks targeting AI’s operational side are quietly inflating budgets, jeopardizing regulatory compliance and eroding customer trust, all…
Scott White still marvels at how quickly artificial intelligence has transformed from a novelty into a true work partner. Just over a year ago, the product lead for Claude AI at Anthropic watched as early AI coding tools could barely complete a single line of code. Today…
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…
Inside a new David’s Bridal store in Delray Beach, Florida, a bride-to-be carefully taps images on a 65-inch touchscreen, curating a vision board for her wedding. Behind the scenes, an AI system automatically analyzes her selections, building a knowledge graph that will match her with vendors, recommend products and generate a personalized wedding plan.
For the overwhelmed bride facing 300-plus…
AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows
June 30, 2025
While enterprises face the challenges of deploying AI agents in critical applications, a new, more pragmatic model is emerging that puts humans back in control as a strategic safeguard against AI failure.
One such example is Mixus, a platform that uses a…
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…
AI agents are one of the hottest topics in tech right now — but how many enterprises have actually deployed and are actively using them?
LinkedIn says it has with its LinkedIn hiring assistant. Going beyond its popular recommender systems and AI-powered search, the company’s AI agent sources and recruits job candidates through a simple natural language interface.
“This is not a demo…
Walmart continues to make strides in cracking the code on deploying agentic AI at enterprise scale. Their secret? Treating trust as an engineering requirement, not some compliance checkbox you tick at the end.
During the “Trust in the Algorithm: How Walmart’s Agentic AI…
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%…
Creatio, the Boston-headquartered customer relationship management (CRM) company focused on no-code and low-code CRM app deployment, has officially launched its latest platform update, the 8.3 “Twin” Release, introducing a suite of AI-native capabilities designed to streamline CRM and workflow automation.
With this update, Creatio continues its mission to build enterprise software where humans…
