Image by Nelemson Guevarra on Unsplash When Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh left Scale AI, he didn’t just pack up his resume and ideas. He packed up nearly a decade of hands-on experience from the heart of the U.S. startup scene — and brought it back to the Middle East. Now, from bases in London and Dubai, he’s […]
Image by Point3D Commercial Imaging Ltd. on Unsplash Most of us try not to think too hard about what happens in the toilet. But Kohler—yes, the bathroom and kitchen brand—is asking us to look a little closer. Actually, it wants its new gadget to do the looking for us. Meet the Dekoda: a $599 toilet
Image by Wolfgang Rottmann on Unsplash If I told you your company’s newest employee could leak private data, recommend fake books, or reject job applicants just because they’re older—without ever knowing it did anything wrong—you’d probably panic. But that’s exactly what’s happening when organizations roll out generative AI tools without proper onboarding. I’ve been watching
Image by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Most companies right now boast about “owning their data” like it’s their secret sauce for AI success. But according to Cisco, that’s just talk — and they’re not shy about calling it out. I sat down (well, virtually) with insights from Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s EVP and Chief Product Officer,
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Photo by Aerps.com on Unsplash Wikipedia, often called one of the last good websites on the internet, is seeing a decline in people actually visiting its pages. According to a new blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Marshall Miller, human pageviews on Wikipedia have dropped by 8% year-over-year. And the reasons behind that dip might
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Make AI apps smarter with real-time location, reviews, ratings, and more directly from Google Maps Image by fabio on Unsplash Let’s say you’re building a travel app. Your user asks for the best brunch spots near them on a sunny Sunday. Wouldn’t it be great if your app could answer like a local—with real-time hours,
Image by GuerrillaBuzz on Unsplash You’ve probably heard the buzz around vector databases. DuckDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, pgvector — the list keeps growing. And while this sounds like great news for AI companies and data teams, there’s a catch: too much choice can quickly turn into a problem. If you’re building in AI — especially
Image by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash For years, people have been asking: can a spyware company be stopped in its tracks? Last week, a California judge gave us a big, resounding “yes.” U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton just ruled that NSO Group—the Israeli cyberintelligence firm behind some pretty aggressive spyware campaigns—is permanently barred from targeting
Photo by hayleigh b on Unsplash OpenAI doesn’t want ChatGPT to be your hype person when it comes to politics anymore — and that’s not just about “bias.” It’s about stopping the chatbot from sounding like it shares your worldview. In a newly released research paper, OpenAI says it’s trying to reduce political bias in
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Photo by Pau Casals on Unsplash Let’s talk about something that feels like it’s straight out of a political thriller — except it’s real, and it’s happening right now on our social media feeds. Last Friday, Senate Republicans posted a deepfake video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to their official X account. In it,
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