Keychain raises $30M and launches AI operating system for CPG manufacturers
Keychain states it’s currently being used by top CPG brands and food retailers including 7-Eleven, Whole Foods, and General Mills.Read More
VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?
SAP’S Yaad Oren and Agilent’s Raj Jampa discuss how to deploy agentic AI while staying inside cost, latency, and compliance guardrails.Read More
The Download: clean energy progress, and OpenAI’s trilemma
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike
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How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance
On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, isolating eyes, noses, and mouths...
Apple AirPods : a gateway hearing aid
When the US Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter hearing-aid software for Apple’s AirPods Pro in September 2024, with a device price point right around $200, I was excited. I have mild to medium hearing loss and tinnitus, and my everyday programmed hearing aids cost...
Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning
Developers are free to create and distribute derivative models. Importantly, Nvidia does not claim ownership of any outputs generated…Read More
Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance
Ultimately, model makers and enterprises are focusing on the wrong issue: They should be computing smarter, not harder.Read More
GEPA optimizes LLMs without costly reinforcement learning
Moving beyond the slow, costly trial-and-error of RL, GEPA teaches AI systems to learn and improve using natural language.Read More