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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

Multi-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 25, 2026

SageMaker HyperPod with Qumulo achieves cross-region training at near-identical throughput without data migration

“A HyperPod cluster running in a different Region from its data reaches the same throughput as a cluster co-located with the data (115–117 samples/sec) with no additional data orchestration needed.”
Teaching LLMs to Speak Spotify — Yves Raimond & Jacqueline Wood, Spotify

AI Engineer · Sep 25, 2026

Spotify rebuilt its recommendation system as LLM-centric 'generative personalization' at 760M user scale

“moving from personalization as guesswork...to personalization as reasoning, which is able to analyze those results and really understand whether they are relevant to that user in a given context”
How to Spot Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else

Elon Musk · a16z · Sep 25, 2026

a16z is launching a professional reputation directory for the startup community

“my friend David Prell told me that my Twitter account is more valuable to me than my college degree.”
Dreamforces' Biggest Tech Announcements with Joe Inzerillo, Allan Thygesen

Salesforce · Sep 25, 2026

Salesforce launches out-of-the-box Agentforce agents at Dreamforce, framing trust as its core product

“Other software companies they think their product is the UI but that's not what we think that Salesforce our product is the trust that all of you our customers put in us to hold your data.”
We Built a Slack-to-GitHub PR Agent in a Few Lines of Code

LangChain · Sep 25, 2026

LangChain's Managed Deep Agents enables Slack-to-GitHub PR agents in minimal code

“Having an agent called from Slack is a pretty substantial request, but with Managed Deep Agents channels, this is done with just a couple lines of code.”
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

Latent Space Blog · Sep 25, 2026

A Chinese open-weight model claims frontier throne as Anthropic, OpenAI cut prices and TypeSafe AI raises $10B

“It's been an absolutely MONSTER week already”
Marc Benioff x Alex Heath Interview

Marc Benioff · Salesforce · Sep 24, 2026

Salesforce posted its best-ever Q2 and unveiled a next-generation intelligent, conversational enterprise interface.

“I think people will be shocked when they see what the future interface of the computer looks like.”
Jensen Huang x Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2026

Jensen Huang · Salesforce · Sep 24, 2026

Jensen Huang says every company and country will become an agentic AI enterprise built on GPU-powered AI factories.

“now with artificial intelligence as an infrastructure layer across the planet, we can know everything and do anything”
Steve Hilton: California is Upside Down

All-In Podcast · Sep 24, 2026

A 2018 California law legalizing street vending is forcing a longtime local shoe store to close.

“We have become a state where you are punished for doing the right thing and rewarded for doing the wrong thing”
Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

Y Combinator · Sep 24, 2026

Monumental Robotics builds autonomous construction machines for solar farms and data centers, aiming for Mars.

“We are building the construction machinery to build a city on Mars, starting with large-scale infrastructure on Earth, like solar farms and data centers.”
commit-rewriter 0.2

Simon Willison · Sep 24, 2026

commit-rewriter 0.2 adds support for running against branches other than the default.

“Support for branches other than the default branch.”
Scale AI coding agents while controlling costs with ug – the Unity Gateway CLI

Databricks · Sep 24, 2026

Databricks' Unity Gateway CLI lets enterprises govern and cost-control AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.

“From 0 to 60% I use Claude Code and the models are available there. 60 to 80% of the time I use Codex and a specific system model. And if I'm hitting 80-100% of my budget, I want to use a cheaper model like Kimmy.”
datasette 1.0a41

Simon Willison · Sep 24, 2026

Datasette 1.0a41 adds OpenTelemetry support and refactors modal dialogs into a reusable Web Component.

“Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release.”
10 Years of NVIDIA DGX

NVIDIA GTC · Sep 24, 2026

NVIDIA marks 10 years of DGX, from DGX-1 with NVLink to the modern AI factory blueprint.

“What started as a single system has evolved over the last decade into the blueprint for the modern AI factory.”