Gary Mintchell

I’ve been reading about the brouhaha over new owners and management at CBS and specifically 60 Minutes. I haven’t watched the program for more than 30 years. I haven’t a strong opinion about the journalists or the program. When Mike Wallace was the lead guy, he practiced “gotcha” journalism. He’d set someone up then spring a trap question designed to throw the subject off guard and show how superior Wallace was. Even if I didn’t like the interview subject, I didn’t like the style.

Deepgram continues to roll out extensions to its real-time voice AI platform. Deepgram and Fortanix are the first to bring confidential computing to real-time voice AI, allowing organizations to protect sensitive conversations and AI models even while they are actively being used. Until now, you could protect data when it was stored and when it was moving. The hard part was protecting it while the AI was actually using it. That’s what we’re solving here for real-time voice AI.

Here is a new service—operational decision intelligence. Also a company new to me—SteelTree. They define an operational decision intelligence service as something designed to help industrial teams improve awareness, reduce friction, and coordinate action across fast-moving operations. The information I could gather combined was very sparse. Not sure why it’s better or worth than anything out there already (unless the “.ai” means something new in AI. It could be worth checking just in case.