Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…

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Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available on YouTube. Here, only the English audio is available. We worked hard to make it enjoyable to listen to, by carefully...

DataRobot local tracing puts an OpenTelemetry dashboard on your localhost from the first line of code, so you can debug agent behavior before it ever reaches production. The post Local tracing in the DataRobot CLI: catch issues before production appeared first on DataRobot.

In the rush to automate evaluation, from grading student code to ranking research papers, we have embraced Large Language Models as judges. They are fast. These units are cheap. They scale. However, at a workshop at DHS 2026, Bhaskarjit Sarmah made a point that stuck with me: “you can’t trust LLM as a judge. I […] The post Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust LLMs as Judges: Understanding...

AI is evolving quickly, but where is it headed next? At SAS Innovate 2026, we asked customers, partners and industry leaders a simple question: What do you think the future of AI looks like? Their answers touched on everything from agentic AI and trustworthy AI to the role of human [...] The post What do AI leaders think comes next? appeared first on SAS Blogs.

The security landscape is shifting as AI accelerates existing vulnerabilities faster than most retail enterprises can adapt.   In this episode, Mark Alvarado, CISO at Academy Sports + Outdoors, examines how AI amplifies gaps in identity management, data governance, and human behavior, joining Emerj's Yolandi de Weerdt to clarify where leaders must focus before deploying AI‑enabled...

Databricks dominated July’s disclosed investment value with a round of ~$3bn (reported). The rest of the month was busier at a smaller scale. Control, security and compliance accounted for nine investments. Outside that group, Valarian raised capital for sovereign AI infrastructure and Bespoke Labs for agent training and reliability. BI and enterprise services produced the […]

First, pick the line that applies to you. Since August 2nd, 2026, Claude marks all content during generation. For instance, text receives a hidden watermark, while files receive a signature. Anthropic committed to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. Consequently, all content generated by Claude models will carry a […] The post Claude Now Watermarks...