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Indiana men’s tennis starts season strong with 10 singles victories at UT Hidden Duals
sports Indiana men’s tennis kicked off its 2026 season over the weekend with 10 singles and five doubles victories at the UT Hidden Duals tournament in Knoxville, Tennessee. The University of Tennessee hosted the event at the Goodfriend Tennis Center, where the University of Memphis, the University of Louisville and Middle Tennessee State University also competed. It was a weekend of success for the Hoosiers, led by strong performances from redshirt senior Sam Scherer and junior Matteo Antonescu.
How 1X Technologies’ Robots Are Learning to Lend a Helping Hand
Humans learn the norms, values and behaviors of society from each other — and Bernt Børnich, founder and CEO of 1X Technologies, thinks robots should learn like this, too. “For robots to be truly intelligent and show nuances like being careful around your pet, holding the door open for an elderly person and generally behaving like we want robots to behave, they have to live and learn among us,” Børnich told the AI Podcast.
NVIDIA’s Bartley Richardson on How Teams of AI Agents Provide Next-Level Automation
Building effective agentic AI systems requires rethinking how technology interacts and delivers value across organizations. Bartley Richardson, senior director of engineering and AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to discuss how enterprises can successfully deploy agentic AI systems. “When I talk with people about agents and agentic AI, what I really want to say is automation,” Richardson said.
Siemens Makes Factory Floors Smarter With Industrial AI
Industrial AI is transforming how factories operate, innovate and scale. The convergence of AI, simulation and digital twins is poised to unlock new levels of productivity, flexibility and insight for manufacturers worldwide — and NVIDIA’s collaboration with Siemens is bringing these technologies directly to factory and shop floors, making advanced automation more accessible.
Siemens Makes Factory Floors Smarter With Industrial AI
Industrial AI is transforming how factories operate, innovate and scale. The convergence of AI, simulation and digital twins is poised to unlock new levels of productivity, flexibility and insight for manufacturers worldwide — and NVIDIA’s collaboration with Siemens is bringing these technologies directly to factory and shop floors, making advanced automation more accessible.
Visa Makes Payments Personalized and Secure With AI
Think tap to pay — but smarter and safer. Visa is tapping into AI to enhance services for its global network of customers, focused on fraud prevention, personalization and agentic commerce. Sarah Laszlo, senior director of Visa’s machine learning platform, joined the AI Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence is powering the next generation of payment experiences. Visa processes hundreds of billions of transactions each year, so even small technological enhancements can have a large impact.
NVIDIA’s Rama Akkiraju on How AI Platform Architects Help Bridge Business Vision and Technical Execution
Enterprises across industries are exploring AI to rethink problem-solving and redefine business processes. But making these ventures successful requires the right infrastructure, such as AI factories, which allow businesses to convert data into tokens and outcomes. Rama Akkiraju, vice president of IT for AI and machine learning at NVIDIA, joined the AI Podcast to discuss how enterprises can build the right foundations for AI success.
From Kitchen to Drive-Thru: How Yum! Brands Is Accelerating Restaurant Innovation With AI Original
The quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry is being reinvented by AI. For example, Yum! Brands — the world’s largest restaurant company and parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger & Grill — and NVIDIA announced their partnership at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference last month, with the goal of deploying NVIDIA-powered AI solutions in 500 restaurants this year. Joe Park, chief digital and technology officer at Yum! Brands, Inc.
Capital One Banks on AI for Financial Services
Financial services has long been at the forefront of adopting technological innovations. Today, generative AI and agentic systems are redefining the industry, from customer interactions to enterprise operations. Prem Natarajan, executive vice president, chief scientist and head of AI at Capital One, joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to discuss how his organization is building proprietary AI systems that deliver value to over 100 million customers.
Isomorphic Labs Rethinks Drug Discovery With AI
Isomorphic Labs is reimagining the drug discovery process with an AI-first approach. At the heart of this work is a new way of thinking about biology. Max Jaderberg, chief AI officer, and Sergei Yakneen, chief technology officer at Isomorphic Labs joined the AI Podcast to explain why they look at biology as an information processing system. “We’re building generalizable AI models capable of learning from the entire universe of protein and chemical interactions,” Jaderberg said.
‘Black Women in Artificial Intelligence’ Founder Talks AI Education and Empowerment
Necessity is the mother of invention. And sometimes, what a person really needs is hot chocolate served to them by a robot — one named after a pop star, ideally. Angle Bush, founder and CEO of Black Women in Artificial Intelligence (BWIAI), began her AI journey in 2019 with the idea to build a robot named Usher that could bring her cocoa. As she scoured robotics tutorial videos for ways to bring her vision to life, Bush found herself captivated by something even bigger: artificial intelligence.
NVIDIA’s Jacob Liberman on Bringing Agentic AI to Enterprises
AI is rapidly transforming how organizations solve complex challenges. The early stages of enterprise AI adoption focused on using large language models to create chatbots. Now, enterprises are using agentic AI to create intelligent systems that reason, act and execute complex tasks with a degree of autonomy.
Buzz Solutions Uses Vision AI to Supercharge the Electric Grid
The reliability of the electric grid is critical. From handling demand surges and evolving power needs to preventing infrastructure failures that can cause wildfires, utility companies have a lot to keep tabs on. Buzz Solutions — a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups — is helping by using AI to improve how utilities monitor and maintain their infrastructure.
Bridging the Digital Divide: AI’s Role in Business Growth
Not every business is keeping up with digital advancements, and the gap between those who do and those who don’t is growing. This is called the digital divide. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) like yours need the right tools to stay competitive. Many businesses are already using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve efficiency and customer relationships, while others are still unsure where to start. There may be a gap happening in the world.
How Cloud Technology is Helping Expand Business (2025)
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are like plants — they need nurturing, care, and attention. You want them to grow big and strong. Scalability is like giving your plant the right tools to grow, even if you don’t have a giant garden and fancy tools, like say, big competitors. It means using smart systems and tools that can handle more customers and information as your business grows. For SMBs, growing is about being flexible and using what you have in the best way.
Roboflow Helps Unlock Computer Vision for Every Kind of AI Builder
Ninety percent of information transmitted to the human brain is visual. The importance of sight in understanding the world makes computer vision essential for AI systems. By simplifying computer vision development, startup Roboflow helps bridge the gap between AI and people looking to harness it. Trusted by over a million developers and half of the Fortune 100 companies, Roboflow’s mission is to make the world programmable through computer vision.
Telenor Builds Norway’s First AI Factory, Offering Sustainable and Sovereign Data Processing
Norway’s first sustainable and secure AI cloud service demonstrates how countries can maintain data sovereignty while advancing green computing initiatives. Building on 170 years as a telecommunications provider, Telenor opened Norway’s first AI factory in November. The facility enables organizations to process sensitive data securely on Norwegian soil while prioritizing environmental responsibility.
Temenos’ Barb Morgan Shares How Chatbots and AI Agents Are Reshaping Customer Service in Banking
In financial services, AI has traditionally been used primarily for fraud detection and risk modeling. With recent advancements in generative AI, the banking industry as a whole is becoming smarter and more intuitive, offering hyper-personalized services and real-time insights for customers.
Technovation Empowers Girls in AI, Making AI Education More Inclusive and Engaging
Tara Chklovski has spent much of her career inspiring young women to take on some of the world’s biggest challenges using technology. The founder and CEO of education nonprofit Technovation joined the AI Podcast in 2019 to discuss the AI Family Challenge. Now, she returns to explain how inclusive AI makes the world a better and, crucially, less boring place.
Building More Builders: Gooey.AI Makes AI More Accessible Across Communities
When non-technical users can create and deploy reliable AI workflows, organizations can do more to serve their clientele Platforms for developing no- and low-code solutions are bridging the gap between powerful AI models and everyone who’d like to harness them. Gooey.AI, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups, offers one such platform, enabling teams to tap into multiple AI tools to improve productivity for frontline workers across the globe.
Leveling Up User Experiences With Agentic AI, From Bots to Autonomous Agents
AI agents with advanced perception and cognition capabilities are making digital experiences more dynamic and personalized across retail, finance, entertainment and other industries. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Chris Covert, director of product experiences at Inworld AI, highlights how intelligent digital humans and characters are reshaping interactive experiences, from gaming to healthcare.
The Future of Marketing: How AI Agents Can Enhance Customer Journeys in Retail
AI agents — which can understand, adapt to and support each user’s unique journey — are making online shopping and digital marketing more efficient and personalized. Plus, these intelligent systems are poised to turn marketing interactions into valuable customer research data. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Jon Heller, co-CEO and founder of Firsthand, discusses how the company’s Brand Agents are revolutionizing the relationship between consumers, marketers and publishers.
How AI Is Enhancing Surgical Safety and Education
Troves of unwatched surgical video footage are finding new life, fueling AI tools that help make surgery safer and enhance surgical education. The Surgical Data Science Collective (SDSC) is transforming global surgery through AI-driven video analysis, helping to close the gaps in surgical training and practice.
Why World Foundation Models Will Be Key to Advancing Physical AI Original
In the fast-evolving landscape of AI, it’s becoming increasingly important to develop models that can accurately simulate and predict outcomes in physical, real-world environments to enable the next generation of physical AI systems. Ming-Yu Liu, vice president of research at NVIDIA and an IEEE Fellow, joined the NVIDIA AI Podcast to discuss the significance of world foundation models (WFM) — powerful neural networks that can simulate physical environments.
Imbue’s Kanjun Qiu Shares Insights on How to Build Smarter AI Agents
Imagine a future in which everyone is empowered to build and use their own AI agents. That future may not be far off, as new software is infused with intelligence through collaborative AI systems that work alongside users rather than merely automating tasks. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, discusses the rise of AI agents, drawing parallels between the personal computer revolution of the late 1970s and 80s and today’s AI agent transformation.
Imbue’s Kanjun Qiu Shares Insights on How to Build Smarter AI Agents
Imagine a future in which everyone is empowered to build and use their own AI agents. That future may not be far off, as new software is infused with intelligence through collaborative AI systems that work alongside users rather than merely automating tasks. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, discusses the rise of AI agents, drawing parallels between the personal computer revolution of the late 1970s and 80s and today’s AI agent transformation.
Why Workforce Development Is Key to Reaping AI Benefits
AI is changing industries and economies worldwide. Workforce development is central to ensuring the changes benefit all of us, as Louis Stewart, head of strategic initiatives for NVIDIA’s global developer ecosystem, explains in the latest AI Podcast. “AI is fueling a lot of change in all ecosystems right now,” Stewart said.
How the Department of Energy’s AI Initiatives Are Transforming Science, Industry and Government
The U.S. Department of Energy oversees national energy policy and production. As big a job as that is, the DOE also does so much more — enough to have earned the nickname “Department of Everything.” In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Helena Fu, director of the DOE’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET) and DOE’s chief AI officer, talks about the department’s latest AI efforts.
Why Your Small Business Should Care About Clean Data
As AI intensifies the need for trusted data, many businesses are rushing to fortify their data foundations. In fact, 86% of analytics and IT leaders agree that AI’s outputs are only as good as its data inputs. To get the most out of data for small businesses, it needs to be “clean.” Clean data — or data and records that are free of inaccuracies, duplications, and blanks — helps your small business run faster, smoother, and more efficiently.
ūüôą AI Bias is a Problem
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Understand artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. Note: It’s been a few weeks since the last AI Thing. If you noticed, let alone missed the newsletter, I am sorry! I got busy with a new consulting gig on top of a marathon of family events.
📝 Transformer Changed Everything
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Understand artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: Transformer Changed Everything 🤖 Ever wonder what the G P T in ChatGPT and GPT-4 stands for? Generative pre-trained transformer. Generative as in can generate human-like content. Pre-trained as in trained on a ton of text. Transformer as in an artificial neural network based on the transformer architecture.
šØ AI is Risky Business, Pt 1
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. šĀ Todayās Thing: AI is Risky Business, Pt 1 šĀ One Big Thing Iām playing with a new format today. This post will be more of a traditional essay than the broken out/scannable format Iāve used to far. Iāve been thinking about mixing in the occasional longform essay, to get deeper into a topic than short blurbs allow for. Thatās the idea, anyway.
🦙 LLaMa, LLaMa, Open Source Drama
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: LLaMa, LLaMa, Open Source Drama No, not the children’s book. 🤖 Plenty of folks across industry, academia, and, of course, Reddit, are worried about a world in which big players like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft own the most powerful AI models, have the (enormous) resources to maintain and update them, and basically control everything.
☠️ DarkBERT is ChatGPT for the Dark Web
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: DarkBERT is ChatGPT for the Dark Web 🤖 A team of South Korean researchers just published, “DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet,” a paper detailing their newly trained AI. DarkBERT, like ChatGPT and Google Bard, is a large language model (LLM) trained on vast amounts of data found online.
🎒 The Kids Are(n't) Alright
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. If you’re enjoying the newsletter, please consider sharing it with a friend! 👀 Today’s Thing: The Kids Are(n't) Alright 🤖 The other day, a LinkedIn post celebrating the launch of a new AI-powered educational technology company caught my eye. But when I dug in, the platform didn’t look like much more than an AI cheating detector. Can AI really help education? If so, how?
🔌 Apps? Tired. Plugins? WIRED.
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: Apps? Tired. Plugins? WIRED. Can you guess which playlist ChatGPT created? Hint: It’s got a boring name. 🤖 OpenAI started rolling out long-awaited beta features to ChatGPT Plus (eg, $20/mo paid) subscribers this week. I got access yesterday and have only just started playing with web browsing and plugins. Browsing hasn’t actually worked for me yet.
😲 It's F***ing Bonkers
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: It's F***ing Bonkers Y’all remember the Maxell guy, right? 🤖 Last week, I got to listen to some of the best 🧠 in the machine intelligence industry talk about generative AI. TL;DR: Everything is moving so fast, it’s f***ing bonkers. Actually, I think that’s a direct quote from one of said brains.
Qu'est-ce que Mistral?
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. ūüĎĬ†Today‚Äôs Thing: Qu'est-ce que Mistral? ūü§Ė The streets of San Francisco are buzzing about Paris. Former DeepMind researcher Arthur Mensch is said to be raising upwards of 100 million Euro to fund his new startup, Mistral. Some are calling Mistral, ‚ÄúEurope‚Äôs answer to OpenAI.‚ÄĚ ūüéß Are you all-in?
ūüôÄ Pentagon AI Chief Is ‚ÄėScared to Death‚Äô of ChatGPT
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. ūüĎĬ†Today‚Äôs Thing: Pentagon AI Chief Is ‚ÄėScared to Death‚Äô of ChatGPT ūü§Ė The US Defense Department‚Äôs chief digital and AI officer said he‚Äôs ‚Äúscared to death,‚ÄĚ about the potential for ChatGPT and other consumer-friendly AI agents to be weapons of mass disinformation. ‚ÄúHere‚Äôs my biggest fear about ChatGPT,‚ÄĚ Martell said.
🎬 AI Goes Hollywood
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: AI Goes Hollywood 🤖 Technology and the movies are hardly strangers, but Gen AI has taken things to a new level, and fast. Text-to-video apps are popping up like weeds. AI-generated commercials, and trailers from epic Hollywood collabs (that never happened) are entertaining us on social media. And now Hollywood writers are on strike.
AI Finds New Drugs Faster
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: AI Finds New Drugs Faster. A physical wiring diagram for the human immune system. - Nature 🤖 When it comes to AI saving the world, nothing hits home quite like humans living longer and with fewer ailments. Doctors and drugmakers alike have been leveraging artificial intelligence for several years now, for everything from medical imaging to smart prosthetics.
AI is Already Upending the Job Market
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: AI is Already Upending the Job Market “Humans living in an age of abundance, with AI powered systems providing everything they need.” Style: Dreamy. - Canva 🤖 AI isn’t the first technology to disrupt economies and change the way humans approach work, life, and education.
AI Geeks are Hyped About Agents
Hello, and thanks for reading One AI Thing. Get smarter about artificial intelligence, one thing at a time. 👀 Today’s Thing: AI Geeks are Hyped About Agents album art for a song about self-learning artificial intelligence agents called "Secret Agent Man" “Steampunk” - picsart 🤖 Chatbots built on LLMs are cool. They’re probably world-changingly amazing, even. But what if you could task a powerful AI not just with a single prompt, but with autonomously completing a multistep task?
After 2 Decades at Startups, These Entrepreneurs Are Aiming for a Billion-Dollar Business
Your marketing team might do a great job sending potential customers to your website, but what happens then? How quickly does your sales team take the baton? Is there a seamless handoff that keeps users engaged? Those are the questions that entrepreneurs Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley set out to solve when they founded Qualified, a pipeline generation platform. Founded in 2018, the dynamic duo have since grown Qualified into a rapidly expanding business. Their goal?
ep 9: Personal Privacy and Data Safety in The Metaverse ft David Nuti
Eighty-seven percent of people surveyed are concerned about how the metaverse could affect their privacy. But 74% of these same folks would join or at least consider joining the metaverse. This according to a survey Nord Security published at the beginning of this year. The metaverse promises richer, more immersive online experiences. That means more data being collected, analyzed, and used to shape what we see and hear. And that means more chances for bad actors to invade our privacy.
ep 8: Larry David Told Me to Buy Crypto! ft Ethan Wu
Ethan Wu is a financial reporter with FT.com, where he co-writes Unhedged, a weekday newsletter about markets and finance. He’s whip smart, articulate, and highly relatable. On this episode, Ethan and I dive into talking digital currencies, the utility of crypto, and how assets work. Some of my questions for Ethan were pretty basic, as reflects my own lack of knowledge when it comes to finance and markets, while others got a bit deeper into the Why? and What Next? of digital money.
Mapping the Metaverse
Tomorrow, April 9, will mark the one-month anniversary of the Meta-Averse podcast. Big thanks to everyone who’s listened, subscribed, or told a friend they might want to check the show out. The goal of the show — and now the newsletter — is to explore the future of the Internet, arguably the most useful technology humans have invented since electricity.
ep 7: A Gym for Your Mind ft Amir Bozorgzadeh
Lots of time, money, and brain power is being devoted to getting consumers to spend as much time and attention as possible in the metaverse. But Amir Bozorgzadeh, Co-Founder and CEO of Virtuleap, doesn’t want anyone spending more than 10 minutes or so at a time using his company’s VR apps. Amir is an advocate of short-form virtual reality experiences, and his company’s debut product reflects that philosophy — and the science behind it.
ep 5: Emotion Science, AI, and Digital Assistants ft Dr Alan Cowen
Dr Alan Cowen is an applied mathematician and computational emotion scientist. Bet you didn’t even know “computational emotion scientist” was a thing! Dr Cowen’s work at Hume AI and The Hume Initiative centers around building artificial intelligence to serve human goals and emotional well-being, and charting an ethical path for empathic AI. What does that mean? For starters, it could mean digital assistants like Alexa and Siri the ability to recognize our emotions, and respond appropriately.
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