The conventional wisdom in AI is that the next breakthrough will come from more compute, more data, and larger models. But what if the next leap comes from somewhere else? In this episode, Max Welling—co-founder and CTO of CuspAI and professor at the University of Amsterdam—argues that physics may provide some of the ideas behind the next generation of AI systems. We begin with CuspAI’s work...
A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds directly inside a customer’s team and infrastructure to build, integrate, and run production systems, instead of building a generic product from headquarters. Consultants deliver recommendations. An FDE delivers working code that stays in production. Therefore, the reason this job exists is uncomfortable. MIT’s NANDA […]...
As AI continues to reshape how organizations work, companies are increasingly asking what AI proficiency should look like across their workforce, and how they can help employees adapt without simply mandating AI adoption. Our returning guest Mike Lewis, Chief AI Architect at TiER1 Performance, joins Dan and Chris to explore AI proficiency through the L0–L3 framework, with a particular focus...
Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies here are already world leaders in humanoids. Nearly 90% of the…
Calculated columns are now available in preview for Direct Lake on OneLake semantic models. This has been one of the most requested capabilities since Direct Lake launched and closes a long-standing gap with Import and DirectQuery storage modes.
You can define calculated columns directly in your semantic model using DAX in web modeling and Power BI Desktop, without changing the table...
Upgrading Power BI Dataflows Gen1 is now easier with the Dataflows Upgrade Wizard. Now in preview for eligible workspaces assigned to Fabric capacity, the wizard provides a guided experience to upgrade Power BI Dataflows Gen1 items to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 (CI/CD). The wizard preserves key properties of the existing dataflow and assesses each item before you begin, helping you understand...
Enterprise engineering teams often spend more time triaging recurring incidents than building the features customers are asking for. In this episode, Dave Glick, Senior Vice President of Growth Technology at Walmart, explores how his teams are using AI agents to catch and fix small, recurring issues before they turn into support tickets. The conversation covers the internal tools Walmart...
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
Today's guest is Dianne Kokotoff, Executive Director, Enterprise Solutions and Automation at Wellstar Health System. Founded in 1993, Wellstar is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the Southeast, serving communities across Georgia through more than 400 care locations, including 11 hospitals. With more than 35,000 team members, Wellstar provides comprehensive,...
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model built with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It activates only a small fraction of its parameters per token, helping reduce inference costs while delivering strong coding and agentic performance. K3 combines near-frontier capabilities, open weights, and lower API pricing, making it an interesting alternative to proprietary...