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CData names Amit Naik as VP of AI Architecture
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (262+ words) CData Software, leading data layer for AI, has named Indian American engineering leader Amit Naik as Vice President of AI Architecture amid accelerating enterprise demand for agentic data access. Along with Naik, CData appointed Raviv Levi as Chief Product and…...
Nikhil Seshadri named 2026 Hertz Fellow for quantum research
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (456+ words) Nikhil Seshadri, an Indian American theoretical chemist and physicist who has spent his early career bridging the gap between abstract mathematics and the physical world, has been named a 2026 Hertz Fellow. The prestigious award, granted by the Fannie and John…...
We're not competing with AI on intelligence'it's the blind spots
4+ week, 14+ min ago (1059+ words) We keep asking whether AI is smarter than humans, but that is the wrong question. The more important issue is not intelligence, but what we each fail to see. The real gap between humans and AI is not how much…...
Merck and Google Cloud partner to scale AI in pharma
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (251+ words) Merck has entered a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to expand the use of artificial intelligence across its pharmaceutical operations, marking a significant step in the industry's push toward data-driven innovation. The deal centers on integrating advanced AI tools and…...
Raj Biyani returns to Indiana college as first chief innovation officer
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (454+ words) Raj Biyani's professional journey, which began with a move from India to a small liberal arts campus in Indiana, has come full circle. Biyani, a 1992 alumnus of Goshen College has returned to his alma mater as its first-ever chief innovation…...
Our addiction to prediction: Biology vs Mathematics
2+ mon, 2+ hour ago (838+ words) The paradox of prediction in the age of artificial intelligence is that the very tools designed to help us navigate uncertainty may be deepening our dependence on it. It is transforming a fundamental cognitive function into a continuous behavioral loop,…...
Mistral launches "Forge" platform to help enterprises build custom AI models
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (408+ words) French artificial intelligence startup Mistral has announced Mistral Forge, a new platform that enables enterprises to build custom AI models trained on their own data. The company unveiled the platform at Nvidia GTC, the chipmaker's annual technology conference, which this…...
Indian American researchers" tool protects against identity leaking during AI photo editing
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (326+ words) Results of validation testing show that we can preserve editing quality while dramatically reducing what AI models can learn about your identity," Aggarwal said. This is a critical step toward trustworthy generative AI." Read: Indian American entrepreneur Aman Gottumukkala joins…...
A Scaffold for Coherence (Part 3): Purpose
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (661+ words) In Part 1 (Attention) and Part 2 (Context) of our series on the Scaffold for Coherence, we saw how coherence weakens when attention is pulled into different directions and context shrinks. We define coherence as the alignment that allows thought and action…...
How Vast Data is powering the future of AI infrastructure in the Middle East
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (812+ words) In an exclusive interview, Vast Data's Haider Aziz and Ahmed Gamal sat down to discuss their journey, the evolution of AI infrastructure in the region, and what lies ahead Vast Data is rapidly emerging as one of the most transformative…...