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Judge a Transaction by the Company It Keeps — Somya Rai & MD Sharique, EXL

Judge a Transaction by the Company It Keeps — Somya Rai & MD Sharique, EXL

EXL developed an advanced fraud detection system that augments XGBoost with Graph Neural Network (GNN) embeddings. Traditional tabular models struggle to capture fraud signals residing in transaction neighborhoods. The system's innovative design includes meticulous sampling strategies, disjoint monthly graph construction for leakage control, and a GraphSAGE architecture that aggregates mean, max, and standard deviation of neighbor features to detect subtle fraud patterns. Emphasizing explainability for regulatory compliance and analyst trust, it also features a highly optimized serving architecture achieving 3ms P99 latency, pivoting to edge prediction to reduce cache footprint from 60GB to 2-3GB. This led to a 27-33% relative lift in true positive rates and a projected $65 million incremental fraud capture.

From 15% to 90% GPU Utilization: Fix the Data Pipeline, Not the Model

From 15% to 90% GPU Utilization: Fix the Data Pipeline, Not the Model

Tarun Sunkaraneni from Amazon AGI shows how a multimodal SFT pipeline that spent about 85% of its time waiting on data was brought to roughly 90% GPU utilization. He walks through concurrency with asyncio and Ray actors, prefetching, zero-copy transfer via Ray's object store, and a network-card bottleneck that appears only at scale, and argues that the hardest part of training throughput is often keeping GPUs fed rather than optimizing the model.

Small Models, Big Results: Training a Finance Agent for Under $500 — Charles Dickens, Snorkel AI

Small Models, Big Results: Training a Finance Agent for Under $500 — Charles Dickens, Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI and UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab show that a 4B Qwen3 model, trained with reinforcement learning for under $500 using the rLLM framework, beats its 235B sibling on expert-validated financial question answering built from SEC 10-K filings. The talk covers the FinQA dataset construction and verification, common failure modes of frontier models, transfer to multi-table and general tool-use tasks, and ablations showing that simple data and binary rewards outperform more elaborate setups, since the real bottleneck is disciplined tool use rather than reasoning depth.

Artificial Intelligence

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How to Decide What Your AI Agent Should Remember - Wojciech Pluta, Oracle

How to Decide What Your AI Agent Should Remember - Wojciech Pluta, Oracle

Wojciech Pluta, head of technical marketing for Oracle AI Database, argues that RAG gives agents a read path while memory gives them a write path, and that the write path is where business value lives. He explains memory promotion, a pipeline that admits, rejects, or escalates candidate memories, and demonstrates it with a mortgage agent that remembers preferences across sessions while refusing unsafe rules. The talk also covers short-term, long-term, and shared memory, why databases are a strong storage layer, and the context card that keeps prompts lean.

Your AI Agent Starts Every Session Like a New Hire - Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar

Your AI Agent Starts Every Session Like a New Hire - Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar

Killian Carlsen-Phelan of Sonar introduces Sonar Vortex, a plugin that gives coding agents a map of a codebase and its guidelines before they write, then deterministically verifies every edit. In a live demo, it catches a temp-file permissions bug that the agent's own tests missed and rejects the agent's first fix.

Please Stop Telling Your AI to “Search Harder”

Please Stop Telling Your AI to “Search Harder”

A discussion of how agent-driven traffic overwhelms APIs, gateways, and cloud infrastructure built for predictable load. It compares microservices with agent workloads, revisits SaaS multi-tenancy, and examines Agent Substrate's actor and worker model for suspend-and-resume agent sessions, with a critical view of whether most users will ever need this layer directly.

Technology

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Why Founders Are Betting Big on Factories, Mines, and Energy

Why Founders Are Betting Big on Factories, Mines, and Energy

Erin Price-Wright and Connor Love unpack the AD50 and the rebuilding of America's industrial base, covering how defense demand is financing manufacturing capacity for commercial markets, how AI is reshaping factory economics, how a new generation of founders applies lessons from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, and Palantir to mining, energy, and manufacturing, and why private capital is now willing to fund physical infrastructure before government demand is guaranteed.

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Make Healthcare Affordable

Mark Cuban’s Plan to Make Healthcare Affordable

Mark Cuban and Julie Yoo discuss how transparency, direct contracting, and AI could reshape healthcare economics, from Cost Plus Drugs and modular pod manufacturing to personalized medicine, the future of physicians, and advice for founders who want to use AI to learn rather than to stop thinking.

Exploits Now Beat Patches: Open Source Security in the AI Era - Patrick Smyth, Chainguard

Exploits Now Beat Patches: Open Source Security in the AI Era - Patrick Smyth, Chainguard

Patrick Smyth of Chainguard examines how frontier AI has compressed the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, leaving 30-day remediation cycles obsolete. The talk covers AI-assisted attacks, waves of supply chain malware, four attack surfaces spanning malware, known CVEs, zero days, and side doors like CI/CD, developer laptops, and agent skills, and practical defenses including cooldown periods, faster CVE remediation, and signing artifacts with SLSA and Sigstore.

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Perception Agents — Antje Barth, Amazon AGI Lab

Perception Agents — Antje Barth, Amazon AGI Lab

Antje Barth of Amazon AGI Lab discusses the architectural gap in current AI agents, which excel at individual tasks but fail at complex, end-to-end workflows due to a lack of reliability and contextual understanding. She introduces "Perception Agents"—AI systems that see, reason, and act on computers like humans, using visual and multimodal input to enable reliable collaboration and close the perception-action loop, highlighting new open-source tools for annotation and verification.

Coding Agents Are Secretly General Agents

Coding Agents Are Secretly General Agents

Jay Hack, head of AI at ClickUp, discusses the evolution of AI from early computer vision to generalist coding agents, highlighting how 'positive transfer' makes coding an 'AGI-complete' domain. He delves into the brutal economics of AI startups facing foundation model giants, ClickUp's strategy for convergence and first-party data as a moat, and the challenges of verifiability and catastrophic forgetting. The conversation also explores LLMs at the scientific frontier, the 'car wash test' revealing limits of world models, and speculative future applications like LLM resorts and game integration.

The Model-Agnostic AI Platform Betting That No Single Lab Will Win

The Model-Agnostic AI Platform Betting That No Single Lab Will Win

Stanislas Polu, co-founder of Dust, shares his journey from Stripe to OpenAI and his motivations for building Dust. He discusses Dust's model-agnostic approach, the challenges of fundraising in an environment dominated by Frontier Labs, the strategic decision to build in France, and critical insights into pricing models and defensibility for AI product companies amidst commoditized intelligence.

AI, Corporate Responsibility & Democratic Legitimacy: Extended Q&A • Joanna Bryson • GOTO 2025

AI, Corporate Responsibility & Democratic Legitimacy: Extended Q&A • Joanna Bryson • GOTO 2025

Joanna Bryson challenges popular AI assumptions, positing current generative AI as powerful tools for cultural knowledge compression, not autonomous intelligences. She emphasizes that AI's capabilities are nearing the human knowledge frontier, requiring focus on human coordination and governance. Bryson critically examines AI's impact on mental health and law, advocating for data-driven regulation and comprehensible systems. She calls for engineering activism, asserting human agency over technological determinism and stressing the importance of transparency and critical thinking in shaping AI's future.

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

DoorDash co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang discuss how AI and autonomous technology are transforming consumer behavior and delivery logistics. They detail the impact of "Ask DoorDash" on restaurant discovery and grocery orders, and the operational challenges and strategic advantages behind their autonomous delivery robot, Dot. The conversation highlights DoorDash's 'use case first' approach to autonomy, the critical role of data in scaling physical AI, and their surprising prediction that more Dashers, not fewer, will be part of DoorDash's future multimodal delivery strategy.

AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries — Zach Blumenfeld, Neo4j

AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries — Zach Blumenfeld, Neo4j

AI agents often struggle with context in lakehouses, leading to confident but incorrect answers. This workshop by Zach Blumenfeld introduces three Neo4j graph shapes built on lakehouse data—Connections (semantic layer), Trees (document outlines), and Communities (themes)—to provide essential context, enabling agents to accurately navigate structured and unstructured data, answer complex estate-level questions, and overcome limitations of traditional Text2SQL and vector search.

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