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Tavus has published a practical guide to creating an AI clone from about two minutes of video, including how to record the footage and set limits on what the clone can do. The useful takeaway is that the recording is only the start: what the system knows, when…
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Tavus has published a practical guide to building AI product demos that answer buyers’ questions during a live conversation. Its most useful advice is about setting boundaries before the avatar is built: decide which questions it should answer, which answers it must avoid, and when it should hand…
Tavus Watch
A person reviewing an AI’s work is a copilot; an AI acting on a handed-off goal is an agent. Tavus argues that conversations which are themselves the task, such as intake or screening, need a different design: a system that stays present throughout the exchange and knows when…
Tavus Watch
Tavus draws a useful line between a live digital twin and an AI replica built from recordings, then describes how its conversational PALs use real-time perception to respond. The distinction matters for buyers: one stays synchronised with a real-world counterpart; the other does not.
Watch Desk
Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, a platform for serving open AI models with serverless endpoints or reserved GPU capacity across multiple data centres. Its pitch is about the less glamorous, rather important business of keeping models available and agent tools working reliably.
Watch Desk
TypeSafe says its Jev model can answer structured decision questions far faster and more cheaply than large language models. The pitch is aimed at a narrow but useful job: returning typed choices, scores or probabilities inside software rather than composing replies or writing code.
Watch Desk
The AI boom is bringing a striking concentration of potential wealth to the Bay Area, as workers already facing high housing costs wonder whether they can afford to stay. ABC7 reports that Redfin estimates current and former OpenAI and Anthropic employees hold nearly $200 billion in after-tax equity,…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to expand its developer tools for agents, including computer use in the Agents API and cloud-based Codex environments. The practical shift is towards agents that can operate software and run coding tasks remotely, not just answer a prompt and wait politely for the next…
AWS AI Watch
Accenture and AWS have introduced six offerings aimed at helping mid-market companies adopt AI and modernise their technology, according to Small Business Trends. Two named examples cover finding data sources before migration and using AI to help move virtual machines to AWS: practical tasks, rather than another promise…
Baseten Watch
Baseten says an AI-built inference engine for Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B ran up to 90% faster than vLLM on single-stream decoding in its tests on one NVIDIA B200. The company’s experiments also included a separate image-segmentation model, suggesting the approach may reach beyond one language model, though neither system is serving…
Meta AI Watch
Meta says mathematicians working with its Muse Spark models have produced six papers, five of them answering previously open research questions. The work ranges from a sharp threshold for fitting random points to an ellipsoid to a counterexample that overturns a conjecture about groups.
vLLM Watch
Engineers have integrated Helion into vLLM’s linear backend, reporting higher LLM inference performance with less kernel implementation complexity. On NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, the tuned backend outperformed the default CUTLASS and DeepGEMM options in the workloads described, with throughput gains above 10% in some cases.
Watch Desk
Canada has named a 13-member National Council on Artificial Intelligence to advise the federal government on AI strategy, safety and the technology’s role in public services. The appointments put prominent researchers and investors around the same table, but raise a practical question: will this council do more than…
GMI Cloud Watch
Open-weight AI models are becoming easier to download, but GMI Cloud argues that the harder business is serving them reliably at production scale. Its 2 October analysis points to a widening gap between what attracts attention and what developers actually use, with infrastructure and model runtimes increasingly central…
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AI training is expanding, but the skills people are rushing to learn are not all technical: enrolments in critical thinking and complex problem-solving are rising sharply too. Coursera and Udemy’s joint Global Skills Report puts the UK 19th among 98 countries for combining AI and human skills, a…
