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How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down

How a Logistics Giant Keeps AI Data Locked Down

Jason Ward, FinOps for AI lead at C.H. Robinson, shares insights on managing AI costs for enterprises and startups. He details a FinOps strategy centered on comprehensive tagging, leveraging AI for observability (e.g., detecting prompt bloat and context starvation), and pioneering advanced metrics like "cost per thought" and "reasoning ratio" to optimize complex AI workloads beyond simple discrete tasks.

Building AI agents with Claude in Google Cloud's Vertex AI | Code w/ Claude

Building AI agents with Claude in Google Cloud's Vertex AI | Code w/ Claude

Ivan Nardini from Google Cloud demonstrates how to build, enhance, and productionalize AI agents using Google Cloud's agent stack. The session covers the challenges of deploying agents and introduces the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building, the Vertex AI Agent Engine for managed deployment, and protocols like MCP and Agent-to-Agent for tool integration and inter-agent communication, using Claude on Vertex AI as the core LLM.