Stay updated with our newsletters for the latest on AI advancements. The competition between Google and OpenAI is heating up, with Google leveraging its custom TPUs for cost efficiency compared to OpenAI’s reliance on expensive Nvidia GPUs. This impacts everything from model pricing to the adaptability of AI solutions in enterprises. Google’s open approach aims ...
Welcome to Tales from the Jar Side, the Kousen IT newsletter for April 13-20, 2025. This week, I taught my Managing Your Manager course and discussed my journey from physical book signings to exploring digital signatures for eBooks. With the rise of ebooks, I embraced the concept of digitally signing books using cryptography, ensuring authenticity ...
Richard S. Sutton’s influential essay, “Bitter Lesson,” highlights that significant advancements in AI come not from human insights but from scalable algorithms that enable machines to learn autonomously. In a new paper, Sutton and co-author David Silver emphasize the need for AI that continually learns from real-world experience rather than relying solely on human-generated data. ...
At the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference, significant advancements were announced for BigQuery, Google’s data analytics database. Key innovations include new automated AI agents that assist with data science and engineering tasks, along with enhanced processing engines that enable simultaneous SQL and AI queries. A new knowledge engine uses metadata to provide relevant suggestions to ...
At Google’s recent Cloud Next conference, the company highlighted its strong focus on AI advancements and efficiency. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the potential of AI to transform what’s achievable, showcasing innovations like the AI-enhanced “Wizard of Oz” experience and new AgentSpace features. These developments include an Agent Development Kit ...
This blog, co-authored by Google Cloud’s Ali Arsanjani, explores the exciting advancements in AI through the lens of multifaceted technologies such as multimodality and multi-agent systems. As AI agents evolve from experimentation to real-world applications, organizations face challenges like complexity, deployment, observability, and performance. The combination of Google’s Agent Developer Kit and Arize’s observability tools ...
In 2025, AI innovation is transforming the data center, PC, and edge computing industries. Major tech companies like Cisco, Intel, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are introducing AI-powered technologies that enhance business operations. Research shows that global spending on AI technologies will exceed $749 billion by 2028, driven largely by enterprises integrating AI into their ...
This week’s real-time analytics news highlights significant advancements in machine learning performance, driven by generative AI optimizations. The latest MLCommons Inference benchmark results reveal a 2.5 times increase in submissions for the Llama 2 70B test, showcasing dramatic improvement over the past year. New benchmarks for generative AI applications and specialized GenAI models for supply ...
Join the upcoming Paper Club event featuring Stephen Casper, an AI researcher from MIT, as he discusses his work on “The AI Agent Index.” Scheduled for April 10, 2025, from 12 PM to 1 PM EST, this live virtual meeting will focus on the increasing importance of transparency in agentic AI systems—those that can perform ...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving beyond simple chatbots, now capable of making calls, conducting research, and even simulating human personalities. This shift is particularly noticeable in customer service, where AI agents are demonstrating high levels of patience and knowledge, often matching or exceeding human performance. Klarna’s CEO noted equal customer satisfaction between AI and human ...
