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AI Integration Strategy Dos and Don’ts: How Leaders Deliver Real Business Value Many organizations already have working AI models, yet still fail to realize business value. The problem is rarely the algorithm. AI doesn’t fail—integrations do. Value is lost when models are not emb...

AI integration fails when models aren’t embedded into real workflows. Learn the dos and don’ts leaders need to turn AI investments into real business value. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/ai-integrati...

AI Agents for Business Leaders: Benefits, Risks, and What to Ask Before Deploying Today’s AI leaders face a new wave of intelligent systems known as AI agents. By 2027, half of the companies using generative AI are expected to have piloted agentic AI assistants capable of complex t...

In this blog, we’ll break down what AI agents do, where they add value, where they can go off the rails, and what questions leaders should be asking – all without digging into any code. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/ai-agents-fo...

Engineering for Profit: A Statistical Deep Dive Into Modular AI Architectures and the +159% ROI Pattern As we enter 2026, the industry is witnessing a “Value Gap.” While LLM capabilities have plateaued into a commodity, the financial returns of corporate deployments vary wildly. Based on an ...

Let's move beyond the hype and analyze the correlation between Human-in-the-Loop systems and getting a +159.8% median return. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/engineering-...

Migrating to the Lakehouse Without the Big Bang: An Incremental Approach Editor’s note: Alex Merced is speaking at ODSC AI East this April 28th-30th! Check out his talk, “Migrating to the Lakehouse: Incremental Strategies Using Query Federation,” there! T...

This incremental, federation-based approach to lakehouse migration represents a fundamental shift in how we think about data platform evolution. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/migrating-to...

Alphabet Resets the Bar for AI Infrastructure Spending With 2026 Capex Forecast Alphabet signaled a step-change in AI infrastructure investment, projecting 2026 capital expenditures of $175 billion to $185 billion—a range that would put spending at more than double its 2025 level...

Alphabet expects 2026 capex of $175–$185B, more than double 2025 levels, as Google scales AI compute for cloud demand, and more. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/alphabet-res...

BrainIAC Foundation Model Reads Routine Brain MRIs to Predict Brain Age, Dementia Risk, and Brain Cancer Outcomes A new AI foundation model called BrainIAC can extract multiple disease-relevant signals from routine brain MRI scans, including estimating “brain age,” predicting dementia risk, detecting brain tumor ...

Harvard-affiliated researchers built BrainIAC, a self-supervised foundation model trained on ~49,000 brain MRIs to estimate brain risks. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/brainiac-fou...

Can AI Hear When Patients Are Ready for Palliative Care? A new study suggests AI may help clinicians identify which seriously ill patients are ready to accept palliative care. This is done by analyzing subtle vocal signals such as energy, pitch, and pauses ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used speech processing to analyze patient calls for cues to predict palliative care acceptance. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/can-ai-hear-...

The AI Trends Shaping 2026 A month into the new year is as good a time as any to take stock of the road ahead. January brought Claude CoWork, Anthropic’s “AI coworker” that turns agents into desktop collaborat...

AI trends in 2026 are shifting from experimentation to production. Here’s what’s actually working with agentic AI, enterprise deployment, and real-world reliability. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/the-ai-trend...

SpaceX to Acquire xAI as Musk Builds a Vertically Integrated AI-and-Space Stack Ahead of Likely IPO Elon Musk said Monday that SpaceX is acquiring his artificial intelligence startup xAI, creating what he described as “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, w...

SpaceX is acquiring xAI in a $1.25 trillion tie-up that links rockets, Starlink connectivity, and Grok AI as Elon Musk positions companies. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/spacex-to-ac...

Fieldguide Raises $75M Series C To Scale Agentic AI for Audit and Advisory Firms Fieldguide has raised $75 million in Series C funding to expand its agentic AI audit platform for regulated audit and advisory engagements. The round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternat...

Fieldguide raised $75M in a Series C to expand its agentic AI platform for audit and advisory work, bringing total funding to $125M. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/fieldguide-r...

Data Scientist or AI Engineer? The Hiring Mistake That Slows AI Teams Your AI roadmap can stall before it starts because of a single, common hiring reflex: “We need AI—let’s hire a data scientist.” On paper, it sounds reasonable. In practice, it often creates a slow-mot...

Hiring a data scientist won’t fix a system problem. Learn when to hire a data scientist vs an AI engineer—and how the wrong choice can stall your AI roadmap before it starts. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/data-scienti...

Why AI is Becoming a Coworker, Not a Tool For the last few years, most organizations treated AI like a tool you call on demand: autocomplete for code, a chatbot for quick answers, a summarizer for documents. That framing is already outdated. ...

2026 will be about AI showing up as a repeatable participant in your workflows—an AI coworker with a defined job, bounded authority, and a clear escalation path. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/why-ai-is-be...

When to Use Agentic AI Workflows—and When Simpler Is Better Agentic AI workflows are everywhere right now. From autonomous research assistants to multi-agent enterprise systems, “agents” are often framed as the inevitable next step beyond traditional AI pipeli...

Agentic AI workflows promise autonomy, but often add cost and complexity. Learn when agents make sense, where they fail, and how teams build them responsibly. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/when-to-use-...

4 Shifts Defining AI Governance in 2026 For most of the last decade, AI governance was treated as a matter of intent. Enterprises articulated ethical principles, created review committees and relied on internal guidelines to manage risk. Th...

As organizations head into 2026, the question is no longer whether governance frameworks exist, but whether they are ready to withstand scrutiny and very real legal ramifications. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/4-shifts-def...

From Agents to ROI: Why Your AI Agent Probably Costs More Than it’s Worth Editor’s note: Sinan Ozdemir is a speaker for the Agentic AI Summit on February 5th, 2026. You can check out his talk, “From Agents to ROI: Building Agentic AI Systems That Actually Delive...

When evaluating AI agent costs, there are a few things to consider: Outcome, trajectory, and behavior. See why here. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/from-agents-...

PhaseV Launches Enrollment Lab to Model Trial Enrollment Before Protocol Lock PhaseV has launched Enrollment Lab, a new AI-powered solution designed to quantify a clinical study’s enrollment potential and model protocol trade-offs earlier in planning—before protocol lock and pr...

PhaseV unveiled Enrollment Lab, adding AI-powered enrollment modeling to its ClinOps platform to quantify real-world patient access. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelliigence opendatascience.com/phasev-launc...

Project Genie Brings Google’s Genie 3 World Model to AI Ultra Subscribers in the U.S Google is expanding access to its “world model” research with Project Genie, a new Google Labs prototype that lets users generate and explore interactive environments from prompts. Starting January 29...

Google rolled out Project Genie in the U.S., letting users sketch, explore, and remix interactive worlds powered by Genie 3. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/project-geni...

Apple has acquired Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai, bringing “silent speech” and whispered-voice machine learning to its hardware teams. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/apple-acquir...

Meta Gets Wall Street’s Blessing to Double Down on AI Spending in 2026 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accelerating his company’s AI spending in 2026—and, for now, investors are signaling they’re on board. In Meta’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings update, the company beat expec...

Meta says it will spend $115B–$135B on AI-related capital expenditures in 2026 as ad-driven revenue growth eases investor worries. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/meta-gets-wa...

Why We’re Evolving the ODSC AI Bootcamp into the ODSC AI Engineering Accelerator Here’s a pattern we see constantly: someone completes an AI course, builds a few prototypes, maybe even demos something internally, and then hits a wall. The model works in a notebook. It doesn’t work...

We've changed the ODSC AI Bootcamp to the AI Accelerator. Here's why, what's changed, and what to expect from this year's cohort. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence odsc.ai/blog/why-wer...

Cloudflare Stock Jumps as Moltbot Goes Viral and Puts AI Agent Security in the Spotlight As a new open-source AI agent called Moltbot spread across social media and developer circles over the weekend, Cloudflare became an unexpected beneficiary. Cloudflare shares rose more than 9% on Mond...

Cloudflare shares climbed as Moltbot went viral, highlighting how local AI agents could boost demand for identity controls and more. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/cloudflare-s...

OpenAI Launches Prism, A Free GPT-5.2 Workspace For Scientific Writing And Collaboration OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-native workspace designed to modernize how scientists write and collaborate on research. The company frames Prism as an attempt to reduce the day-to-day overhead t...

OpenAI has launched Prism, a free LaTeX-native workspace powered by GPT-5.2 that unifies drafting, citations, and real-time collaboration. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/openai-launc...

From Foundations to Orchestration: Inside the Agentic AI Summit 2026 Agentic AI has quickly shifted from an experimental concept to an operational priority. Across the first two days of the 2026 Agentic AI Summit, speakers traced a clear progression: from understanding...

Agentic AI is evolving fast. See how teams are building, scaling, and governing real-world AI agents with these lessons from the Agentic AI Summit. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/from-foundat...

Katarina Slama on AI Safety: Bridging Immediate Harms and Catastrophic Risk As AI systems become more capable and more deeply embedded in society, the question of safety can no longer be treated as a niche concern or a purely theoretical exercise. In her ODSC AI West 2025 key...

Katarina Slama, Research Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute, explores how AI safety research must bridge immediate harms and catastrophic risk to build safer, more resilient systems. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/katarina-sla...

Voice AI is Finally Ready for the Real World For years, voice AI carried more promise than payoff. Early systems could transcribe speech or follow rigid scripts, but they struggled with real conversations. Latency was high. Context was brittle. ...

Voice AI is moving from demos to real-world deployment. Learn how modern voice systems work, why trust and evaluation matter, and what’s next for enterprise voice AI. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/voice-ai-is-...

Microsoft Unveils Maia 200 Inference Accelerator to Cut AI Token Costs Microsoft has introduced Maia 200, a new first-party AI accelerator designed specifically for inference, with the goal of improving the economics of “token generation” at cloud scale. The company says...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 inference chip targets lower token-generation costs with FP4/FP8 compute, 216GB HBM3e, and Ethernet scale-up networking. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/microsoft-un...

Pinterest Plans Workforce Reduction as it Shifts Investment Toward AI Teams Pinterest said Tuesday it will reduce its workforce by less than 15% and cut back on office space as the company pivots more aggressively toward AI. In a securities filing, Pinterest framed the move a...

Pinterest will cut less than 15% of its workforce and reduce office space as it “reallocates resources” toward AI-focused teams. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/pinterest-pl...

Drugmakers Use AI to Cut Weeks Off Trials and Regulatory Submissions AI has not yet delivered the biggest promise in drug R&D—consistently discovering novel molecules that become major medical advances. However, pharmaceutical and biotech executives say AI is alrea...

Drugmakers are using AI to streamline trial enrollment, site selection, and regulatory paperwork—cutting weeks from timelines. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/drugmakers-u...

EU Opens Digital Services Act Probe Into X Over Grok-Generated Sexual Deepfakes The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X, examining whether the platform’s Grok AI features contributed to the creation and spread of manipulated, sexualised images...

The European Commission is probing X under the Digital Services Act after Grok was used to generate sexualized images of real people. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/eu-opens-dig...

Google Expands Personal Intelligence to AI Mode in Search for More Context-Aware Results Google is extending its vision of context-aware search by bringing Personal Intelligence into AI Mode in Google Search, a move designed to tailor results using a user’s own data—securely and by choice...

Google is expanding Personal Intelligence to AI Mode in Search, enabling opt-in connections to Gmail and Google Photos for personalized AI. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/google-expan...