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Inference, not prediction — Prof. Michael I. Jordan on what modern AI is still missing

Inference, not prediction — Prof. Michael I. Jordan on what modern AI is still missing

Michael I. Jordan, a leading figure in machine learning and statistics, argues for reframing AI from a race for disembodied superintelligence to the design of collective economic systems. He critiques the AGI hype, advocates for integrating economic principles and robust uncertainty quantification into ML, and proposes a new intellectual framework for building technology that augments, rather than replaces, human systems.

What Breaks When You Build AI Under Sovereignty Constraints - Bilge Yücel, deepset GmbH

What Breaks When You Build AI Under Sovereignty Constraints - Bilge Yücel, deepset GmbH

Bilge Yücel explains that true AI sovereignty is a technical challenge, not just a policy issue, built on four pillars: data, model, infrastructure, and operations. This talk explores the common pitfalls of retrofitting sovereignty—from performance regressions after swapping models to discovering deep vendor lock-in when moving on-prem—and presents a checklist for building genuinely sovereign systems.

Personalization in the Era of LLMs - Shivam Verma, Spotify

Personalization in the Era of LLMs - Shivam Verma, Spotify

Spotify is personalizing open-weight LLMs without full fine-tuning by combining three key components: foundational user embeddings from streaming history, 'Semantic IDs' that tokenize its 100M+ item catalog, and a 'soft tokenization' layer that projects a user's embedding directly into the LLM's context. This allows the model to autoregressively generate the next song or podcast as the next token in a sequence.

Build Agents That Run for Hours (Without Losing the Plot) — Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic

Build Agents That Run for Hours (Without Losing the Plot) — Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic

Explore advanced techniques for building long-running AI agents, moving beyond simple loops. Learn why self-evaluation fails and adversarial evaluators succeed, how to manage context with structured handoffs instead of just compaction, and how to use negotiated 'sprint contracts' and detailed rubrics to build and test complex, full-stack applications autonomously.

Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering • Martin Fowler & Kent Beck • GOTO 2025

Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering • Martin Fowler & Kent Beck • GOTO 2025

Martin Fowler and Kent Beck, two authors of the Agile Manifesto, reunite for an unscripted conversation about their 30-year friendship and the evolution of software engineering. They delve into their practical, daily use of AI (the "Genie"), reflect on the legacy of Extreme Programming and the Agile Manifesto, and offer timeless advice to the next generation of developers.

MCP vs ADK: How Modern AI Agents Connect and Work Together

MCP vs ADK: How Modern AI Agents Connect and Work Together

AI agents are having a moment, and understanding MCP and ADK is key to building them well. Cedric Clyburn and Anna Gutowska explain how MCP powers tool integration while ADK structures reliable multi‑agent systems 🤖. Learn when to use each to build more capable and predictable AI agents.