AI Costs Are Accelerating — Here’s How to Keep Them Under Control

Cloud usage continues to soar, as do its associated costs — particularly, of late, those driven by AI. Gartner analysts predict worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will swell to $723.4 billion in 2025, up from just under $600 billion in 2024. And 70% of executives…

John Beeler, Ph.D., SVP of Business Development, BPGbio – Interview Series

John Beeler, Ph.D., SVP of Business Development at BPGbio, brings over two decades of experience in biotechnology and business development, with extensive expertise in novel therapeutics. Before joining BPGbio, he most recently served as Business Development Search & Evaluation Lead at Bristol-Myers Squibb where he was pivotal in…

Midjourney V7: Faster AI image generation

Midjourney has announced the alpha release of its V7 image generation model for testing by the AI community. The new model packs improvements in text prompt understanding, image quality, and feature coherence. “V7 is an amazing model. It’s much smarter with text prompts, image prompts look…

A Notable Advance in Human-Driven AI Video

Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my system on load. For this reason, I won’t link to it directly. Readers can find the URL in the paper’s abstract or PDF if they choose. One…

Gmail’s AI-powered update: the impacts on influencer marketing

Google has recently released an AI-powered update to Gmail’s search functionality. The update sees the email app move away from the chronological display of search results to a new relevance-based ordering of results. The built-in AI engine analyses emails based on factors like recency, most-clicked emails,…

Bridging the AI Agent Gap: Implementation Realities Across the Autonomy Spectrum

Recent survey data from 1,250+ development teams reveals a striking reality: 55.2% plan to build more complex agentic workflows this year, yet only 25.1% have successfully deployed AI applications to production. This gap between ambition and implementation highlights the industry’s critical challenge: How do we effectively…

Unframe Emerges from Stealth with $50M to Transform Enterprise AI Deployment

Unframe, a next-generation enterprise AI platform, has officially emerged from stealth with a $50 million funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside TLV Partners, Craft Ventures, Third Point Ventures, SentinelOne Ventures, and Cerca Partners. The funding marks a significant milestone for Unframe as it accelerates…