Voice assistants that engage in back-and-forth communication are something you’ve likely experienced. But a voice assistant that provides rational, uninterrupted exchanges via spoken dialogue? That’s what xAI delivered with their Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 in April 2026 and instantly, it became the top model on the τ-voice Bench leaderboard.  This is not simply another […] The post Grok...

President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding for America’s top research universities becomes increasingly strained

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is built than was once thought possible. Goodfire claims Silico…

New Pulse of AI Podcast! Season 8, Episode 165! In this insightful interview, Oren Michels from Barn Door AI joins The Pulse of AI Host Jason Stoughton and  discusses the evolving landscape of agentic AI, governance, trust, and how enterprises can navigate the challenges and opportunities of AI adoption. Discover practical strategies for implementing AI safely and effectively in your...

There can be some practical constraints when it comes to deploying the AI models for retail environments. Retail environments can include store-level systems, edge devices, and budget conscious setup, especially for small to medium-sized retail companies. One such major use case is demand forecasting for inventory management or shelf optimization. It requires the deployed model […] The...

There’s a lot of noise right now making it seem like you have to pick a side between MCP and Agent Skills. It’s being framed like a high-stakes rivalry, but that’s a total misunderstanding of the tech. Skills and MCP is fundamentally different things. Skills are just a prompt loaded on demand, while MCP is […] The post MCP vs Agent Skills: Different Altogether appeared first on...

For most corporate tax departments, the day-to-day reality looks something like this: a relentless cycle of compliance deadlines, manual data pulls from finance, reconciliations across spreadsheets, and little time left for anything that looks remotely strategic. Tax transformation is the path out of that cycle — and it’s no longer optional. Tax transformation refers to […] The post Tax...

If you’ve spent any time working with Oracle ERP data, you know this tale: your dashboards look polished, but the numbers inside them are hours or days old. The promise of modern cloud ERP was real-time business intelligence, yet most finance and operations teams are still clicking through static reports, waiting on IT for extracts, […] The post Oracle ERP Dashboard: How to Get Live...

Benchmarking Gemma-3-4B, MiniCPM-o 2.6, and Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct for latency, throughput, and scalability.