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Frontier model launches, upgrades, and releases.

ModelsMay 24, 2026TechCrunch AI
I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

ModelsMay 24, 2026TechCrunch AI
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

ModelsMay 20, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Presentation: The AI Gateway: Scaling Centralized Inference Across Decentralized Teams

Meryem Arik discusses why modern engineering teams face "inference chaos" and how AI model gateways provide a critical control layer. She explains the balance between empowering decentralized teams to choose the best models and maintaining centralized oversight for security, RBAC, and cost control. Explore open-source

ModelsMay 21, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Presentation: The Ironies of A^2 I^2

J. Paul Reed discusses the "ironies of automation" - a 40 years-old concept now amplified by AI. He explains how advanced systems often make the human operator more crucial, not less, while simultaneously degrading the skills needed to intervene. Sharing real-world stories of "AI-fueled" incidents, he shares why over-r

ModelsMay 21, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Six Sessions at QCon AI Boston 2026 That Take Productionizing AI Seriously

QCon AI Boston 2026 is close to selling out. Six sessions where speakers engage directly with the gap between AI working in a demo and AI working in production. By Artenisa Chatziou

ModelsMay 22, 2026InfoQ AI/ML/Data Engineering
Uber Improves Restaurant Recommendations Using Real-Time Signals and Listwise Ranking

Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwi

ModelsMay 21, 2026TechCrunch AI
With aluminum prices up 20%, recycling startups bet on AI to cash in

Recycling startups are using AI to improve the recovery of critical minerals like aluminum, aiming to build a massive source of the metal.