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Your Ranking Model Is Optimizing the Wrong Thing with Zoe Weil - #780

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In this episode, Zoe Weil, co-founder and CEO of Sequen, joins us to discuss how ranking systems can use live behavioral signals to optimize for purchases rather than clicks or search relevance alone. Zoe explains why approaches developed at data-rich social platforms don’t necessarily translate to retailers and how Sequen uses scroll speed, hover duration, and other in-session interactions to...

Modernizing Enterprise GRC for Continuous Assurance - with Craig Unger of Hyperproof

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Shifting regulations and siloed risk and compliance functions are forcing enterprise leaders to rethink audit-driven compliance. In this episode, Craig Unger, CEO and Founder at Hyperproof, explains why compliance should be treated as a continuous state, with every control tied back to the organization's overall risk profile. He also covers standardizing a single set of controls across...

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

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Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch…

The clinical data foundation wasn’t designed for the AI era

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There has been no shortage of discussion about accelerating clinical development. Over the past decade, life sciences organizations have invested heavily in advanced analytics, cloud computing, automation and, more recently, AI. These technologies are changing how clinical teams work, helping them analyze information more quickly, automate processes and make decisions [...] The post The...

Power BI October 2026 Feature Summary

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Last month, we shared a packed September update alongside the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference. Even so, the Power BI team has continued delivering new capabilities, and we didn't want to wait another month to share them. This update includes enhancements across Copilot and AI, reporting, and semantic models, helping users create richer reports, streamline workflows,...

JEV as a Hallucination Filter: Let the LLM Write, Let JEV Check 

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The majority of hallucination checks begin following the initial writing of an answer by the LLM. We then hold someone up to a second standard of judgment, or we hand over dangerous cases to a person. That works but that is looking at the solution only as one-off.   What if the LLM generates five different […] The post JEV as a Hallucination Filter: Let the LLM Write, Let JEV Check ...

Education is Failing our Students in this AI-Driven World

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Schools and universities are failing to adapt to our modern world, in which AI is becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life and work.  In fact, AI may be changing what should be considered foundational knowledge that all students must learn. In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris explore the role of AI in education and the future of learning.  They note the...

The Real‑World Conditions That Shape Industrial AI - with Jeff Witt of GE Vernova

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A recommendation that's right 80% of the time sounds fine, until it's steering machinery next to a person. On the factory floor, that margin is the difference between routine and catastrophic. In this episode, Jeff Witt, Global Process Digital Authority at GE Vernova, examines why industrial AI demands a different standard of rigor than its enterprise counterpart, from edge computing...