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Helping organize AIconference.com #raysummit #NLPsummit #DataAISummit ; Past: Chair of @strataconf & @OReillyAI & @TensorFlowWorld & #SparkAISummit. Host of #TheDataExchangepod

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Cool AI Agent Demo → Production Disaster (Here's Why) #agent #ai

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Most AI agents fail in production — not because the prompt was wrong, but because nobody did the hard work. Robust systems demand rigorous evals, controlled experiments, and serious engineering discipline. Cleverness gets you a demo. Data science gets you reliability.
👉 https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/are-your-ai-agents-confusing-activity
Why smarter agent architecture does not always improve results

Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.

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🚨🚨🚨 Foreign state actors are leveraging #AI to make influence campaigns more scalable, more persuasive, and far harder to attribute or detect
👉 researchers at USC confirmed that AI agents can autonomously execute every phase of an influence operation (building personas, amplifying content, targeting communities, and evading detection) simultaneously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TVIqbtORmk
How Russia, China & others use AI to enhance foreign influence campaigns

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✨ GTC 2026 Decoded 🆕 A Structured Guide to Nvidia's GTC 2026 Announcements
https://gradientflow.com/nvidia-gtc-2026/
NVIDIA's Next Moves: A Practitioner's Guide to GTC 2026 - Gradient Flow

NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 conference, held March 16–19 in San Jose, delivered a sweeping set of announcements. The throughline across hardware, software, models, and partnerships is clear: NVIDIA is engineering a vertically integrated stack that spans from silicon to agentic application frameworks and humanoid robots, positioning itself as the central platform vendor for the entire AIContinue reading "NVIDIA’s Next Moves: A Practitioner’s Guide to GTC 2026"

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✅ Policy and ethics at the speed of #AI
👉 Tracking the intersection of code, culture, and consequence
https://ethics.dev/
Ethics.dev

Tracking AI’s Impact on Society

Ethics.dev
Is Your Desk Job Safe from AI Agents?

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🆕 World Models Explained
🤖 We're officially in the "GPT-2 era" of world models ... and that's a very exciting place to be. Jeff Hawke, CTO at Odyssey, on how world models differ from video generators, and why robotics and gaming are the killer early applications
https://thedataexchange.media/jeff-hawke-odyssey/
World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase

Jeff Hawke on Continuous Simulation, Interactive Control, Scaling Challenges, and Future Applications.

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Living inside a Rubik’s Cube
🧩 https://youtu.be/3UJf19jYM4M?si=NObGNlRyu8VMZsNP
Inside Richard Murphy’s Unusual Home in Edinburgh

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Is Your Desk Job Safe from AI Agents?

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Beyond Coding: How AI Agents Are Moving Into Accounting and Legal
https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/execution-is-now-free-heres-your
When AI does the junior work, how do we train seniors?

Put data, machine learning, and AI to work.

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