The term “ontology” is now en vogue. Why? Agents, and the LLMs that power them, need relevant business context. Before you buy into an ontology, ask the vendor: “When the ontology gets our business wrong, how do our people correct it—and what still depends on you?” The answer will tell you a great deal about…
Instruction tuning uses examples of instructions and desired responses to make a pretrained model more useful, controllable, and consistent in interactive tasks. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Apartment List and Grotto AI have partnered to carry renters’ preferences from an online apartment search into the calls and tours that follow. Announced November 3, the integration gives leasing teams information such as budget, move-in date, pets and preferred amenities before they speak with a prospective resident. The goal is to remove a recurring…
Athena has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by a16z Speedrun to build an AI-native legal service for commercial real estate transactions. Announced November 3, the financing backs a model in which proprietary agents prepare legal work and experienced attorneys at an affiliated firm remain responsible for the advice and documents clients receive. The…
In its early years, Uber made a cross-town ride cheaper than a taxi. Investors covered the difference until the company needed to make money. Data from Rakuten Intelligence showed US ride-hailing prices rising 92% between 2018 and 2021, and by 2023 even Uber’s CEO was surprised to hear what a three-mile trip in New York…
Synthesia announced on November 3, 2026 that its ChatGPT plugin is live on every Synthesia plan. The plugin brings AI video generation, in-chat revisions and library search into ChatGPT and can automate production through other connected plugins. Users can describe the video they want or provide a document, deck or spreadsheet. When asked for a…
About three years ago, I bought my first paid AI subscription and kicked off testing what it could actually do for me. Gradually, what began as personal experimentation turned into a small internal project, then company-wide business subscriptions and, eventually, an AI rollout spanning almost every department — development, finance, legal, marketing and support. The…
Pudu Robotics unveiled the PUDU TOMO S Series on November 3, 2026, bringing the commercial-robotics company into residential lawn care with a mower line built around automated rotary-blade sharpening. PUDU describes TOMO S as the world’s first self-sharpening rotary-blade robotic mower. Its SharpLoop system automatically sharpens the blades at the charging station when needed, creating…
Heimstaden is using ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to rework home lettings, environmental-risk analysis and property operations, OpenAI said on November 3, 2026, reporting a reduction of more than 99% in Dutch property-image production costs. The European residential real estate operator accelerated its AI program in June 2025 and selected OpenAI after evaluating several platforms. Its…
Drax announced on November 3, 2026 that it had signed an agreement with Brookfield and Radiant to develop, deliver and operate AI data center capacity at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, targeting more than 1GW across three phases. Brookfield estimates that total potential investment, including semiconductor chips, could exceed £20 billion, with an initial…