Scott Ernst is Chief Executive Officer of Vyond and a veteran technology leader with more than two decades of experience scaling SaaS, AI, data, and marketing technology companies. He previously served as CEO of Uptempo, Drift, Tubular Labs, and Macromill, where he led the company through its initial public offering and its growth into a…
Mistlabs is launching Ambi beyond beta on Apple devices following a $26 million Pre-A funding round led by Luminous Ventures and Huaqin Technology. The San Francisco company is developing an ambient AI system that follows ongoing work, retains context across devices, and allows separate Ambi agents to coordinate on their users’ behalf. The financing will…
AI output closely resembles human speech. Chatbots can answer questions, hold conversations, show apparent emotion, tell jokes and adjust their tone on the spot. These abilities make AI useful and engaging, but they can also cause people to anthropomorphize it, or treat it as if it has human qualities, emotions or intentions. While this behavior…
Cisco unveiled new networking silicon, systems and optics for open AI infrastructure at the OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose on October 12, 2026, including a 51.2T top-of-rack switching chip, a new out-of-band management system, and a planned 400Gb/s-per-lane pluggable optics module designed with NVIDIA. Kevin Wollenweber, Cisco’s senior vice president and general manager…
Guglielmo Faglioni, Co-Founder and Chief of Science & Technology at Callimacus, is a technology entrepreneur and software engineer with more than a decade of experience building digital products and applications. Alongside his role at Callimacus, he has served as CEO of Gorilla Technologies since 2016, a software development company focused on mobile applications, websites, and…
XPeng Inc. launched the G9L Next-Gen AI Flagship SUV for Europe at the 2026 Paris Motor Show on October 12, 2026, with French pricing starting from €74,990, public test rides of its Next Generation Pilot (NGP) driving software and a new technology-collaboration offering for global automotive partners. The announcements spanned the company’s XPENG Paris Night…
Microsoft on October 12, 2026 introduced Azure Maia 300, the third generation of its in-house AI accelerator family, and said it will scale the Azure Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system across its products and services. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud + AI, announced the…
Boston-based Flexcompute announced on October 12, 2026, that it has received a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., among other investors. The company said the funding will accelerate its work on the Physics World Model, an AI system it describes as predicting how any…
Flex on October 12, 2026, announced an expanded portfolio of prefabricated modular data center solutions designed to accelerate deployment of next-generation AI factories. The portfolio includes new Axiom AI Modules that integrate power, high-density compute and advanced liquid cooling into factory-built systems, which Flex said can cut deployment timelines by up to 50% versus traditional…
Continuous batching dynamically inserts and removes inference requests as individual sequences finish, keeping accelerator slots busy instead of waiting for a whole static batch. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.