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Amon: Qualcomm customer in India is building QR-payment smart glasses
“We have a customer of us in India that is doing smart glasses. They integrated with the digital payment system, so now you can look at a QR code and say, pay this, and it will pay.”
Resolve AI's primary use case is autonomous on-call incident remediation
“The primary way engineers use Resolve AI Is to put us on call instead of them waking up in the middle of the night when something goes wrong with software and resolve does the triaging and troubleshooting and suggests remediation.”
Capital One's Chat Concierge AI is live at nationwide auto dealerships
“Chat Concierge is now available. At many dealerships across the company across the country.”
IFS Partnering With Boston Dynamics, Anthropic, and Eversource on Inspections
“Real example, real use case we're working on in development with Boston Dynamics, with Eversource Energy, and with Anthropic, ok?”
IFS Explores Nvidia Jetson and Metropolis for AR Field Guidance
“We're exploring with the use of NVIDIA, Jetson technology and the Metropolis platform to give augmented reality to those technicians so that when the technician is performing a task, you know, with that edge-based chip and an LLM that can go onto that chip, st…”
Moffat: IFS uses Anthropic models for proactive industrial equipment maintenance
“We began a discussion with them, and that led to the development of a new field capability where we're able to analyze equipment and fail points and issues using the Anthropic model to index you know, the issues at hand that have resulted in a more proactive m…”
Visa APIs verify natural language intent before authorizing AI agent transactions
“We've introduced incremental data payloads on things what we call in our APIs called payment instructions and signals, where we actually try to match the consumer natural language intent to the thing the agent is going to buy before we actually release the cre…”
Visa partners with Cloudflare to detect bot intent to buy at the CDN level
“So we've done a bit of work with a number of our partners, including, you know, partners like Cloudflare that do a really, really good job at the CDN level. To analyze bots and bot traffic and what to make available in a merchant environment, like, you know, p…”
Kelleher: Okta has secured and provisioned over 60 AI tools internally
“With Okta internally right now, we have over 60 AI tools that we have secured and provisioned within our enterprise.”
Kelleher: Would Only Use Brain AI If It Runs Locally and Privately
“I'd be very curious to have an augmented brain, an AI augmented brain, and the ability to have a co-pilot that can help me navigate my life. So the idea of that's very intriguing, but for me, for that to be something I would actually do, I would need to have c…”
Anthropic uses Claude Code recursively to develop Claude Code
“You can imagine cloud code itself is like a very sort of we use cloud code to develop cloud code very much in a loop.”
Krieger: Anthropic deploys 'Claude on call' agent to triage incident channels
“One thing that we've built using the cloud agent SDK, which we also released alongside it's on at 4.5 publicly, but we've been using internally for awhile is the ability for cloud to basically show up first in those incident channels and already have A sense o…”
Anthropic grades internal AI agents on attribute scorecards for quarterly roadmaps
“For any given agent that we're building internally, we sort of like grade it on all these different attributes and we can say, all right, great for our next quarter, our investment is going to be on autonomy or it's going to be on memory.”
Krieger: Anthropic will never build a standalone tax product
“We're never going to build a tax product but Intuit has the largest one, and so being able to power their, sort of, tax Q&A was really powerful.”
Reid splits her own queries evenly between AI mode and main search
“They're split. They're split pretty strongly. I don't know if it's 40, 60, 6040, but pretty down. It depends on, on the types of questions, right? Right now, if I'm trying to find a restaurant to eat, I still find main search more effective for a lot of those …”
Reid: Google Search is testing a Daily Digest and AI audio podcasts
“Within Discover, we've been playing around with Daily Digest, seeing, okay, you get in the morning once, can you understand what some of the different stories are? We have a lab where we're experimenting with, if you come to search and you issue a query for th…”
Lightcap: OpenAI prioritized healthcare applications during GPT-5 training
“We focused on health a lot with this release because that was one of the consistently common things that we heard from people as a starting point for how they've used powerful AI was in, when they're navigating a health journey. And so we really wanted to make…”
Amodei: Anthropic Open-Sources Interpretability Research Despite Commercial Advantage
“We release our interpretability research to everyone and allow other companies to copy it, even though we've seen that it sometimes has commercial advantages.”
Petersen: Flexport fulfillment centers use minimal robotics
“At least at Flexport, we're so, we have minimal robots in our fulfillment centers. We're mostly people.”
Petersen: Flexport has 400,000 drivers on its app but 200,000 loads yearly
“So we have 400,000 truck drivers on the mobile app... But we only have 200,000 loads a year.”
Anugas: Snowfire uses Perplexity for search and Claude for mathematics
“So we really like things like perplexity for scraping and web search. We like Claude for mathematics. We're looking at something from Google called notebook LM right now to pull together massive language structures and to deliver an entire, entire audio file o…”
Scaramucci discloses personal investments in xAI and SpaceX
“Full disclosure, I am a investor in XI, XAI. I was an investor in Twitter. It got converted into XAI. It's, you know, sort of Twitter merged with Grok now. I have a small investment in XAI prior to that. I have an investment in SpaceX, me personally.”
Boureau: ThrivePal is funded primarily by OpenAI and General Catalyst
“So it's funded by OpenAI and General Catalyst, mostly, and a bunch of other people.”
Marcus: Very interested in raising venture capital for neurosymbolic AI
“I'm very interested in that. Let's put it that way.”
Kurian: Google Cloud is deploying infrastructure into McDonald's restaurants
“If you look at the work we're doing with McDonald's, we're putting our cloud into the restaurants.”
Parker: Trivariate tracks Chinese product prices at Target, Walmart, Costco
“The kind of research we're doing is looking at, like, China products you can buy at Target and Walmart and Costco today, and then seeing what the price is gonna be next week, later this week, and see, like, how quickly, if at all, do the prices come up, right?”
Panos Panay: Amazon will release Alexa Plus next month
“You know, we're finishing the product now. It's coming out next month, so we're pumped that we're through the event, and yeah, there's some relief, I would say.”
Panay: Screen-based Echo customers will get Alexa Plus preview first
“When we start rolling out preview, the first customers to get preview will be our screen-based customers because it's the best experience.”
Tank: Jotform aims to reach one million small businesses in year one
“And for the first year, our goal is to like, Get to, like, one million small business.”
Ratliff Prompted His AI Voice Clone to Engage With Telemarketers
“I told it, like, accept any offer. Like, participate in any insurance plan. Like, whatever. It was prompted to be very accepting. So when someone calls with a health insurance or a new roof or whatever they're gonna call with, it's gonna engage them all the wa…”
Ratliff Wrote a Magazine-Length Biography to Prime His AI Clone
“I did. I did write a small, a magazine-length biography. I wasn't interesting enough for a full-length book biography, but I gave it a magazine-length biography of myself.”
Kantrowitz's Family Uses a Secret Distress Word to Thwart Scams
“With my family, if we have a rule that if any of us ever call and say, I'm in a distressed situation, I need help. I need money. We have a code word that we've created, you know, in the privacy of our own home that you have to use that code word.”
Lebaredian: NVIDIA trains physical AI models with video and 3D simulation
“We're not just going to describe with words, how, what happens when you drop a piece of paper. We're going to give these models other senses. During the learning process. So they'll, they'll watch watch videos of paper dropping. We can also give it more, more …”
Lebaredian: NVIDIA has worked towards Cosmos for about a decade
“We've been working towards Cosmos For probably about 10 years, we envisioned that eventually this new technology that had formed with deep learning, that that was going to be the critical technology necessary for us to create robot brains.”
Kyndryl uses AI agents to automate telco client code testing
“We've been able to use our AI agent framework to deploy not only code assist agents, but also into test and deployment agents. So how we can also shorten the time in which, where we see errors in coding to be returned back and be refined. So we've deployed tha…”
Hoffman: Greylock's Series A in Airbnb bled money before succeeding
“Greylock investment in Airbnb, which I led the series A of, had that similar characteristics of just bleeding money, and then later being the amazing business we see today.”
Winarski: Siri was created as a 'do engine', not a search engine
“When we first created Siri, our vision was very specific. It was a do engine. For, instead of a search engine. And what we meant by a do engine was Understand a person's intent, a request to do something. It always had to be a request to do something. Buy me a…”
Winarski: Working with Google Spin-Out NexSense on Brainwave Sensing
“I'm working with a spin-out out of Google on this called NexSense.”
Garman: AWS to launch Blackwell-based EC2 P6 instances in early 2025
“We're going to announce that the P six, which is the Blackwell based instance that's coming early next year.”
Garman: AWS uses automated reasoning internally to verify IAM permission changes
“We actually use it internally to make sure that our permissioning system is actually, when you change permissions, that it's actually behaving as expected.”
Scaringe: Rivian R2 starts at $45,000, R3 priced considerably lower
“So the goal, of course, with the lower price product is to take that market share success that we've had and apply it to a much, much larger audience with a price point that with R two starts at 45 and then with R three starts considerably lower than that.”
Scaringe: Rivian employs more software engineers than mechanical engineers
“Rivian is more software engineers than any other type of engineer. You know, you have more software engineers than mechanical engineers.”
Gomez: Cohere is hiring PhDs to train AI models
“We're kind of at that level where we're currently hiring PhDs to teach the model in their specific domain.”
Bosworth: Orion AR Glasses Hardware Emerged in 2023, Software in Mid-2024
“The hardware came up last year at this time. And so the software bring up really only came together a few months ago and they just made incredible progress since then already.”
Bosworth: Meta expected holograms before AI in smart glasses roadmap
“We really thought early on when we were developing these, even until maybe a year ago, it was going to be holograms and then at some point later, AI. And in fact, it's going to be the opposite. The AI is going to come first. It's already come to the Meta Ray-B…”
Bosworth: Meta is prototyping a persistent three-panel AR workstation
“One of the fun demos that we have in prototyping, it's not even in the demo that you tried yet is this cool thing where you have your whole workstation set up. So you've got like a three panel workstation set up. And then you like just get up and walk around a…”