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

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google DeepMind · Google DeepMind Blog · Aug 26, 2026

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for intelligent speech-to-text transcription

“Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.”
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 26, 2026

GoDaddy cut BI dashboard load times from 15 minutes to 5 seconds via Amazon QuickSight migration.

“We migrated to Amazon Quick and cut dashboard rendering from 15 minutes to under 5 seconds. But the bigger win was cultural: with custom agents and automated flows, data-driven decisions became the norm across GoDaddy, not something reserved for analysts. Our teams saved over 15,000 hours annually and shifted to higher-value work.”
How Web Search Actually Works | Parag Agrawal, Parallel Web Systems

Sequoia Capital · Aug 26, 2026

Web search is a billion-to-billion matching problem across pages and queries

“it's a billion to billion matching problem, right? So, you have hundreds of billions of pages and hundreds of billions of queries over time. And you need to figure out how to match make across these two.”
How Do You Actually Evaluate an AI Agent?

LangChain · Aug 26, 2026

Agent evals must run continuously using LLM-as-judge since non-deterministic outputs make exact-match testing impossible.

“The teams that really get this right treat eval sort of as a muscle. You build it early, you're running it constantly because I think the alternative is like finding out your agent tried recommending the wrong product three weeks ago from a customer complaint.”
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

Latent Space Blog · Aug 26, 2026

Standard transformer scaling fails for physics: trillion-token context requirements make it impossible.

“If each dimension is even a few hundred grid points, which is where industrial scale starts... we're talking hundreds of billions to even a trillion context length. So forget ever having a transformer for anything of this scale, all of the world's compute will not be enough.”
Surprise and shine

Apple · Apple Developer News · Aug 26, 2026

Apple announces a special event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT.

The Building Blocks of GTM Orchestration — Arman Vaziri, Ramp

AI Engineer · Aug 26, 2026

Ramp is building AI-agent-powered GTM orchestration to automate campaign execution from intent descriptions

“agents have really like deepened our ability to go and like push the level of automation that you can do on behalf of operators like as close as possible to those points of execution”
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance

a16z · Aug 26, 2026

AI competition has shifted from a two-horse race to three as xAI rapidly emerged as a top contender

“I went to bed a few nights ago and said, 'Hey, uh, buy me a pair of jeans that are inspired by these.' I took a photo of my current jeans. Um, I said, 'Don't spend more than $500 and get it done.' I woke up in the morning and it had researched, found a pair, same fit, different wash, used my credit card, purchased them and they're on the way.”
AI in GTM at Notion — Flora Liu

AI Engineer · Aug 26, 2026

Notion rebuilt its fragmented GTM stack as a unified agentic system, reframing it as a distributed systems problem.

“A year ago, I would have told you that building a GTM system was a marketing ops problem. And today, I think it's one of the most interesting distributed systems problems that I've worked on.”