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Build an Emergency Helpline Voice Agent with LangChain

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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 […] The post Build an Emergency Helpline Voice Agent with LangChain appeared...

Announcing major new donations, and recapping the 2025 fundraiser

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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 […] The post Announcing major new donations, and recapping the 2025 fundraiser...

ServiceNow Series E218: 'Shaping the Future of AI, Google Cloud & ServiceNow' with Google Cloud's Chandra Sekhar Chappa

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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...

From Overwhelm to Working AI in Pharma and Life Sciences - with Art Shectman of Elephant Ventures

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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...

Choosing the Right Vector Database for RAG and AI Applications

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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...

What leaders learn when AI meets reality

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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 [...] The post What leaders learn when AI meets reality appeared first on SAS Blogs.

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

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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…

How AI Is Reshaping the Way Enterprises Build Software - With Tim Sears of HTEC

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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...

Build an agent that writes its own tools

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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... The post Build an agent that writes its own tools appeared first on...

Google Gemma 4 12B: Architecture, Benchmarks, Access, and Hands-on Guide for Developers 

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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, […] The...