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This post first appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate Substack newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. TL;DR: Aim for a clear spec covering just enough nuance (this may include structure, style, testing, boundaries. . .) to guide the AI without overwhelming it. Break large...

As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods, their limits, and practical paths toward trustworthy provenance across images, audio, and video. The post Media Authenticity Meth...

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while supporting 10,000-year data preservation. The post Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technolog...

Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a transformative force in healthcare.

Silicon Valley continues to define the global AI agenda. In 2026, the region’s technology ecosystem is accelerating once again, home to multi-billion-dollar companies and many of the world’s most influential AI leaders. Are you ready?

Startups no longer need massive cloud budgets to build intelligent products. By shifting AI from centralized servers to on-device processing, edge AI enables leaner, faster, and more privacy-conscious MVPs from day one.

When people think about healthcare innovation in the US, Silicon Valley often gets the spotlight. But for decades, another ecosystem has been quietly getting on with the job of shaping the future of medicine and technology: Boston. And right at the heart of that ecosystem sits CVS Health.

OnDemand session from OpenAI

By cleaning unstructured spend data, automating contract analysis, and enabling real-time decision-making, AI helps organizations reduce costs, manage risk, and unlock smarter sourcing strategies.

(Hint: The problem isn’t 'bad' answers, it’s believable ones...)

Catch up on every session from Generative AI Summit Washington, D.C., with sessions from the likes of OpenAI, US Bank, Meibel and more.

At a private dinner a few months ago, Jensen Huang apparently said what I’ve been thinking for some time. The US is significantly behind China in AI development. Here are some of the reasons. Huang starts with the ratio of AI developers in China (he estimates 1 million) to AI developers in the US (2...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have created an AI system that can interpret brain MRI scans in just seconds, accurately identifying a wide range of neurological conditions and determining which cases need urgent care. Trained on hundreds of thousands of real-world scans along with patient...

Somewhere between “this model will replace your entire workflow” and “this chatbot will become your best friend,” many teams are left wondering what’s real, what’s useful, and what’s just… very confident marketing. That’s where Stability AI stands out.

In Silicon Valley, OpenAI has built systems and infrastructure that allow experimentation to turn into durable engineering outcomes (not fragile prototypes held together by hope and a README), and the world can’t get enough…

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a special printing technique that embeds digital instructions directly into the skin. Images and information...

This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I have been using Claude Code for a variety of purposes, and one thing I’ve realized is that the more it understands about the functionality of the system (the domain, the use cases, the e...

Building AI in healthcare is hard enough without fighting your own data systems. In Austin, Takeda is tackling that problem head-on, creating a platform designed for scale, compliance, and real-world impact.

As global banking collides with AI at scale, Citi is quietly rebuilding its core from Austin. What’s emerging is a blueprint for how the next generation of finance gets engineered. Ready to join the future of global banking?

The hard truth about AI scaling is that for most organizations, it isn’t happening. Despite billions in investment, a 2025 report from the MIT NANDA initiative reveals that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact. This isn’t a technology problem; it’s an org...

Why AI systems hallucinate, what causes these failures in practice, and how teams can reduce the risk in production.

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing many qubits to be read at once. The team has already demonstrated working arrays with dozens and even h...

Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research argues that developing scientific tests for awareness could transform medicine, animal welfare, law, and AI development. But identifying consci...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and terrain data normally used by rover planners, identified hazards like rocks and sand ripples, and charte...