Nikolaus West, CEO of Rerun, breaks down the challenges and opportunities of physical AI—AI that interacts with the real world. He explains why traditional software falls short in dynamic environments and how visualization, adaptability, and better tooling are key to making robotics and spatial computing more practical.

The slow, batch-processing nature of the data lake is obsolete for modern Generative AI, which requires instant access to fresh data. In this article, the author proposes a shift away from centralizing data, advocating instead for an API-first approach. This allows AI applications to directly and quickly access live data from its source, enabling truly real-time, responsive features.

LLMs are reshaping the future of data and AI—and ignoring them might just be career malpractice. Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis unpack what’s breaking, what’s emerging, and why inference is becoming the new heartbeat of the data pipeline.

What makes a good AI benchmark? Greg Kamradt joins Demetrios to break it down—from human-easy, AI-hard puzzles to wild new games that test how fast models can truly learn. They talk hidden datasets, compute tradeoffs, and why benchmarks might be our best bet for tracking progress toward AGI. It’s nerdy, strategic, and surprisingly philosophical.

The creator of FastAPI is back with a new chapter—FastAPI Cloud. From building one of the most loved dev tools to launching a company, Sebastián Ramírez shares how open source, developer experience, and a dash of humor are shaping the future of APIs.

Willem Pienaar and Shreya Shankar discuss the challenge of evaluating agents in production where "ground truth" is ambiguous and subjective user feedback isn't enough to improve performance. The discussion breaks down the three "gulfs" of human-AI interaction—Specification, Generalization, and Comprehension—and their impact on agent success. Willem and Shreya cover the necessity of moving the human "out of the loop" for feedback, creating faster learning cycles through implicit signals rather than direct, manual review. The conversation details practical evaluation techniques, including analyzing task failures with heat maps and the trade-offs of using simulated environments for testing. Willem and Shreya address the reality of a "performance ceiling" for AI and the importance of categorizing problems your agent can, can learn to, or will likely never be able to solve.

AI is already complex—adding the need for deep engineering expertise to use MLOps tools only makes it harder, especially for SMEs and research teams with limited resources. Yet, good MLOps is essential for managing experiments, sharing GPU compute, tracking models, and meeting AI regulations. While cloud providers offer MLOps tools, many organizations need flexible, open-source setups that work anywhere—from laptops to supercomputers. Shared setups can boost collaboration, productivity, and compute efficiency. In this session, Jukka introduces an open-source MLOps platform from Silo AI, now packaged for easy deployment across environments. With Git-based workflows and CI/CD automation, users can focus on building models while the platform handles the MLOps.

Tecton Founder and CEO Mike Del Balso talks about what ML/AI use cases are core components generating Millions in revenue. Demetrios and Mike go through the maturity curve that predictive Machine Learning use cases have gone through over the past 5 years, and why a feature store is a primary component of an ML stack.