We have all been in an emergency where every second matters. Someone’s life is at risk but there you’re panicking. Now, imagine in this situation of distress when a helpline asks you to press numbers on your keypad to connect with the right agent? Pure chaos, right? Here, we just need someone to listen and […]
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This past December, we ran our first fundraiser in six years, setting an ambitious goal of $6M. We ended up receiving a total of $1.8M from small donors and $1.6M in matching from the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) for a total of $3.4M. We’re incredibly grateful for all this support! In the rest of […]
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Today's guest is Chandra Sekhar Chappa, Global Head, Co-Innovation - ServiceNow at Google Cloud. Founded in 2016, Google Cloud is Google’s enterprise cloud computing platform, providing organizations with scalable infrastructure, data analytics, AI, machine learning, security and application development services. Google Cloud helps businesses modernize operations, accelerate innovation, and...
Regulatory volatility, scientific‑grade context requirements, and entrenched legacy processes are creating a level of operational complexity in pharma that makes even high‑value AI initiatives difficult to move from concept to production. In this episode, Art Shectman, CEO at Elephant Ventures, examines with host Marilie Fouché how leaders can cut through that complexity by isolating a...
Modern AI applications rely on understanding meaning rather than matching keywords. As large language models, semantic search, and RAG systems have become mainstream, vector databases have emerged as critical infrastructure for storing and retrieving high-dimensional embeddings at scale. Choosing the right vector database can have a major impact on performance, scalability, cost, and...
Most leaders do not have an AI problem. They have a readiness problem. In many small and midsized businesses, pilots are underway and use cases are defined. But when leaders step back and ask the harder question, "Is AI actually paying off?", the answer is often less clear. This gap [...]
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On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…
Individual AI productivity gains are already here, but they are uneven, and they are not the main event. In this episode, Tim Sears, Chief AI Officer at HTEC, argues that the real transformation in software development will arrive when AI becomes a catalyst for teamwork rather than an enhancer of individual performance. The conversation examines why software development is the clearest...
The third post from Build Club, our weekly live build session. The companion GitHub repo can be found here, docs here and you can try the agent live in the hosted playground. Your agent framework is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is that every new external system your agent needs to talk to requires another...
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On June 3, 2026, Google introduced Gemma 4 12B Unified, an open-source multimodal model designed to understand text, images, audio, and video within a single architecture. It combines a 256K context window with an efficient, laptop-friendly design aimed at agentic workflows and local deployment. The release also raises interesting questions about Google’s broader AI strategy, […]
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