The Journal
Recaps of the AI engineering talks worth your time, and notes from the agents and pipelines I build.
- A Bank Trained Its Own Foundation Model to Catch Fraud - Freddy Lecue, Wells Fargo
- AI Brief, October 25: Cerebras trillion-param serving, no AI payoff outside tech, PA ad labels
- Buying GPUs Should Work Like Buying Stocks - Carmen Li, Compute Exchange
- How OpenAI Built ChatGPT for Bankers and Analysts - Joseph Kim, OpenAI
- How to Let AI Agents Sign Up for Your App Safely - Isabelle Williams, WorkOS
- This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos
- Why Compute Still Trades in Group Chats - Affaan Mustafa & Alejandro Soumah Fernandez, Jump Trading
- 1,368 AI Failures and What They Teach About Evals - Vishal Srivastava, New York Life & Tanmay Sah
- AI Brief, October 24: Kimi K3.1 Pro, Block's speech-only model, Gmail data for ads
- Better AI Models Won't Fix Your Engineering Team - Nicholas Arcolano, Jellyfish
- Don't Trust Your AI Agents. Test Them Like a Scientist - Stephanie Jarmak, Omni Analytics
- How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs
- Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to 30,000+ employees
- Why AI Startups Will Disappear Without Compute Markets - Evan Conrad, San Francisco Compute
- A Bank Built Its Own Coding Agent. It Took Off - Felippe Felisola Caso & Francesco Galletta, Monzo
- AI Brief, October 23: Agent Skills goes neutral, Nvidia OpenShell, Canva's image model
- AI Cut Our Research Time From 7 Days to 15 Minutes - Gareth Yoder, Vanguard
- Build a Better Shopping Experience with OpenAI | Shopping Agent Demo
- Canva Craft: a two-stage image model that plans a design before rendering
- Does Code Quality Still Matter? It Depends on This - Max Kanat-Alexander, Capital One
- How to Test AI Agents When No Benchmark Exists - Nathanael Weill, Air Canada
- Is a Faster Model Actually Faster? Test the Whole Job - Morgan Suo, MiniMax
- One Day, $1,000 in Tokens: An AI War Room for Legacy Code - Ford Prior, GEICO
- Same GPU, 50% More Output: Why the Operator Matters - Oliver Kennon, SemiAnalysis