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Gilbane Advisor 3-11-26 — practical decentralization, wearable AI

This week we feature articles from Paul Freeze, and Louis Rosenberg.

Additional reading from Tanmay Deshpande, Tina Sharma, Kate Moran, and Cobus Greyling.

News from AODocs, Deepgram, Siteimprove, Research Solutions.

Our next issue will be published on 3/25/26

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Opinion / Analysis

Practical decentralization

Bluesky’s Paul Frazee: “The AT protocol tends to get compared to two different technologies: ActivityPub and Nostr. Both are good examples of “federated hosts” and “magical meshes”, respectively… Atproto draws inspiration from both of those models, but it works like neither. This can lead to some confusion that I think we can clear up.”

Frazee’s post is intriguing, lucid, and code-free. (Note that PDS stands for personal data server.) (6 min)

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/practical-decentralization

What if the real risk of AI isn’t deepfakes — but daily whispers?

Louis Rosenberg has written about the “AI manipulation problem” before. In this sobering short article he describes how wearable AI could create a feedback loop that controls the conversation and, in turn, erodes human agency.

With wearable AI we’ll “wonder who is steering the bicycle — the human, the AI agents whispering in the human’s ears, or the corporations that deployed the agents? I believe it will be a dangerous mix of all three.” (4 min)

https://venturebeat.com/technology/what-if-the-real-risk-of-ai-isnt-deepfakes-but-daily-whispers

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Content Technology News

AODocs launches External Portals to securely streamline document collaboration

Feature delivers easy external partner collaboration while eliminating risks from shadow IT file-sharing tools, with enterprise-grade control & audit-ready traceability.
https://www.aodocs.com/products/document-management-system/

Flux voice AI platform supports on-the-fly configurations

Lets developers dynamically update speech recognition settings during a live conversation without disconnecting or restarting the audio stream.
https://deepgram.com/learn/flux-on-the-fly-configuration

Research Solutions launches Scite MCP, connecting AI tools to scientific literature

Scite MCP connects directly to AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, enabling researchers to get evidence-backed answers grounded in 250 million+ scientific articles.
https://researchsolutions.investorroom.com/2026-02-26-Research-Solutions-Launches-Scite-MCP,-Connecting-ChatGPT,-Claude,-Other-AI-Tools-To-Scientific-Literature

Siteimprove expands its agentic content intelligence platform

Platform now delivers natural-language analytics, multimodal AI for PDF and Image accessibility coverage, and keyword intelligence for AI search.
https://www.siteimprove.com/press/siteimprove-expands-its-agentic-content-intelligence-platform/

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Gilbane Advisor 2-25-26 — agent reliability, cognitive surrender

This week we feature articles from Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, & Arvind Narayanan, and Alberto Romero.

Additional reading comes from Ethan Mollick, JA Westenberg, Daniel Kocot, and Steve Hedden.

News comes from Graphwise, Dataiku, Krisp, and Cockroach Labs.

Our next issue will be published on 3/11/26

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Opinion / Analysis

Towards a science of AI agent reliability

Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

“Surprisingly, even though the lack of reliability of AI agents is well known, right now the AI industry doesn’t have good tools for measuring reliability, or even a good definition of reliability.”

Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan decided to take a stab at a “comprehensive measurement of reliability”. Together with some additional researchers have they’ve made a sensible and very useful start and published a draft, which they summarize in this post. The complete draft can also be downloaded. (9 min)

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-towards-a-science-of-ai

A new Wharton study on AI warns of a growing problem: cognitive surrender

Casual users should pay special attention

Alberto Romero: “The study introduces the concept of “cognitive surrender,” our tendency to adopt AI outputs with “minimal scrutiny,” overriding “both intuition and deliberation.” I’ve read it, and the findings, although unsurprising, are still quite scary.” 

You can download the full paper, Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender, with the included link. (7 min)

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-wharton-study-on-ai-warns-of

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Graphwise announced the immediate availability of GraphRAG

Beyond vector-only RAG, knowledge graphs provide context and common sense to AI. The AI-workflow engine turns “Python prototypes” into production-grade systems.
https://graphwise.ai/news/new-graphrag-solution-moves-beyond-vector-only-rag-knowledge-graphs-provide-context-and-common-sense-to-ai/

Dataiku launches 575 Lab, its open source initiative for responsible AI

The 575 Lab will focus on delivering deployable tools that strengthen explainability, privacy, and governance across modern AI and agentic systems.
https://www.dataiku.com/press-releases/dataiku-launches-575-lab/

Krisp launches real-time Voice Translation SDK

Enables CX (customer experience) platform developers to embed real-time multilingual voice-to-voice translation into live customer conversations.
https://krisp.ai/blog/real-time-voice-translation-sdk/

300-node clusters now supported in CockroachDB

CockroachDB v25.4 supports 300-node clusters and 1PB of data per cluster at 2.2M tpmC on transactional workloads to improve scalability for AI-era applications.
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/300-node-clusters-supported-cockroachdb/

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Gilbane Advisor 2-11-26 — multi-agent architectures, SaaS & CaaS

This week we feature articles from Nicole Königstein, and Scott Brinker.

Additional reading comes from JA Westenberg, Grace Huckins, Rahul Gaur, and Aruna Ranganathan & Xingqi Maggie Ye.

News comes from Elastic, Snowflake, Upland, and DeepL.

Our next issue will be published on 2/25/26

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index


Opinion / Analysis

Designing effective multi-agent architectures

From models to systems

“… the winners in the agentic era won’t be those with the smartest instructions but the ones who build the most resilient collaboration structures. Agentic performance is an architectural outcome, not a prompting problem.”

Excellent advice from Nicole Königstein on how to get there. (8 min)

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/designing-effective-multi-agent-architectures

The SaaS moats are crumbling, but the opportunity is bigger

Context-as-a-Service (CaaS) and the future of domain-specific software platforms

An important read from Scott Brinker for all, not just marketers :). (8 min)

https://newsletter.chiefmartec.com/p/the-saas-moats-are-crumbling-but-the-opportunity-is-bigger

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Content Technology News

Snowflake makes enterprise data AI-ready with Snowflake Postgres

The database now runs natively in the AI Data Cloud so enterprises can consolidate their transactional, analytical, and AI use cases onto a single, secure platform.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-makes-enterprise-data-ai-ready-with-snowflake-postgres-and-advanced-innovations-for-open-data-interoperability/

Elastic adds high-precision multilingual reranking to Elastic Inference Service

Two Jina reranker models and new Elastic Inference Service deliver low-latency, production-ready relevance for hybrid search and RAG workloads.
https://ir.elastic.co/news/news-details/2026/Elastic-Adds-High-Precision-Multilingual-Reranking-to-Elastic-Inference-Service-with-Jina-Models/default.aspx

Upland announces BA Insight Platform with integrated AI search experiences for enterprises

The new capabilities and enhancements are designed to make search experiences smarter, faster, and more insightful across complex enterprises.
https://investor.uplandsoftware.com/news/news-details/2026/New-Upland-BA-Insight-Platform-Delivers-Integrated-AI-Search-Experiences-for-Enterprises/default.aspx

DeepL launches voice API for real-time speech transcription and translation for instant multilingual communication

Developers can integrate real-time voice transcription and translation capabilities into their applications, significantly enhancing multilingual support for businesses.
https://www.deepl.com/en/press-release/deepl_launches_voice_api_for_real_time_speech_transcription_and_translation

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Gilbane Advisor 1-28-26 — Reusing content, AI bot swarms

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Daniel Thilo, Jonas R. Kunst, & Gary Marcus.

Additional reading comes from Stephen O’Grady, Bob Ducharme, and Thomas Claburn.

News comes from Verndale, MongoDB, Box, and Algolia & Microsoft.

Our next issue will be published on 2/11/26

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Opinion / Analysis

Reusing ever-changing content in the AI era

“This post examines how the concept of reusing content is changing with the rise of LLMs. I’ll argue that these changes will necessitate a rethinking of practices such as content models and content structuring.”

A must-read for anyone involved in content management from Michael Andrews. (18 min)

https://storyneedle.com/reusing-ever-changing-content-in-the-ai-era/

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

When AI can fake majorities, democracy slips away

“Automated bots that purvey disinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media … But as we outline in the new article in Science we foresee something worse: swarms of AI bots acting together in concert. The unique danger of a swarm is that it acts less like a megaphone and more like a coordinated social organism.”

This obviously timely essay by Daniel Thilo, Jonas R. Kunst, & Gary Marcus explains and suggests strategies for mitigation. Link to Science article included. (5 min)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-bot-swarms-threaten-to-undermine

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Content Technology News

Verndale acquires Product Experience Division of Amp

The acquisition strengthens Verndale’s ability to support the full lifecycle of digital experience, from ideation and UX through engineering, activation, and ongoing product management.
https://www.verndale.com/about-us/news/verndale-acquires-product-experience-division-of-amp

MongoDB expands MongoDB for startups

MongoDB for Startups creates a simple, opt-in experience designed to help founders scale without assembling and maintaining disparate technologies.
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-for-startups-expands-to-give-founders-a-faster-and-smarter-start-from-day-one

Box announces general availability of Box Extract 

Using AI models, Box Extract enables enterprises to automate content-driven workflows, accelerate decision-making, and unlock insights from unstructured content.
https://blog.box.com/introducing-box-extract-get-actionable-data-enterprise-content-scale

Algolia and Microsoft collaborate on retail experiences

Collaboration gives retailers fresher visibility, increased discoverability, and new influence across AI-powered shopping channels.
https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-drive-real-time-product-data-to-shopping-experiences

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Gilbane Advisor 1-14-26 — Context Graphs, Claude code

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Ethan Mollick.

Additional reading comes from Jacob Steinhardt, Tony Seale, and Tom Krazit.

News comes from Microsoft, Snowflake & Observe, WP Engine & Big Bite, and Squirro.

Our next issue arrives 1/28/26.

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Opinion / Analysis

Context Graphs, Data Traces & Transcripts

Some thoughts on the latest buzzwords

Kurt Cagle: “A knowledge graph is a valuable tool… and a critical part of AI infrastructure moving forward. However, the central idea of context graphs is that you should be able to determine exactly when a decision was made and why, and that is something that a knowledge graph by itself can only give you VERY indirectly…”. 

However, Cagle provides a “stunning” example of context capture with “a graph, a schema, and a bit of a taxonomy.” (15 min)

https://ontologist.substack.com/p/context-graphs-data-traces-and-transcripts

Claude Code and what comes next

With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things

With a single prompt, Ethan Mollick asked Claude Code to create an idea for a new business with a working website where you could purchase the product — it took a little over an hour. (Link provided with actual purchase function turned off).

This is an easy, non-technical read that illustrates current AI coding capabilities. (10 min)

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-next

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Content Technology News

Microsoft announces agentic AI capabilities for retail

Built for the full retail value chain, Microsoft’s agentic AI streamlines workflows to accelerate decisions by augmenting human expertise across the enterprise.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/01/08/microsoft-propels-retail-forward-with-agentic-ai-capabilities-that-power-intelligent-automation-for-every-retail-function/

Snowflake to acquire Observe

Observe’s observability platform will integrate directly into Snowflake to allow enterprises to ingest and retain all their telemetry data at lower cost.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-announces-intent-to-acquire-observe-to-deliver-ai-powered-observability-at-enterprise-scale/

WP Engine acquires Big Bite

Strategic acquisition of a go-to partner for global publishers adds media industry and technical expertise to provide new solutions to enterprise customers.
https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-acquires-big-bite/

Squirro announces Squirro Release 3.14.4 

Squirro Release 3.14.4 introduces new capabilities designed to close the gap between structured enterprise knowledge and ad-hoc user workflows.
https://squirro.com/news-and-events/new-release-december-2025-enhanced-chat-multimodal-reasoning

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Gilbane Advisor 11-19-25 — AI interviews, benchmarks, coding tools

This week we feature articles from Nicolas Ethan Mollick, and Dharmesh Shah.

Additional reading comes from Luke Wroblewski, Pete Warden, Jon Udell, and Michael Iantosca.

News comes from Snowflake, Bloomreach, Google, and Sitecore.

Reminder: We don’t publish in December.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index


Opinion / Analysis

Giving your AI a job interview

As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it

Ethan Mollick explains why AI benchmarks, while valuable, are in general not sufficient for determining which AI model would be best for your business needs. What to do? Mollick argues that while “vibe benchmarking” can provide some limited insight into model differences,  assessing models for real world applications requires interviewing / testing model skill sets before hiring. Mollick discusses and links to OpenAI’s recent GDPval paper on the topic with examples. (8 min)

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-your-ai-a-job-interview

The AI coding tool landscape (and why I just switched tools)

A breakdown of what’s available and what’s actually working

Developer Dharmesh Shah created a helpful table categorizing the different types of AI coding tools. (5 min)

https://simple.ai/p/the-2025-ai-coding-tool-landscape

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Content technology news

Snowflake to acquire Datometry Migration Solution

Snowflake enhances data migration with Datometry technology, integrating it into SnowConvert AI to move legacy data faster and reduce costs.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/accelerate-data-migration-datometry-technology/

Google introduces the File Search Tool in Gemini API

File Search accelerates development workflow by handling the complexities of RAG with a user-friendly alternative to a self-managed setup.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/file-search-gemini-api/

Bloomreach launches Personalized Media in-Grid

The new capability unites search, storytelling, and personalization, integrating placement and conversation inside the shopping journey.
https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2025/bloomreach-unites-search-storytelling-and-personalization/

Sitecore unveils SitecoreAI

SitecoreAI is the evolution of XM Cloud, unifying content management, customer data, personalization, and search in a single scalable platform.
https://www.sitecore.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/2025/10/sitecore-unveils-sitecoreai-ushering-in-the-ai-first-era-of-digital-experience

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Gilbane Advisor 11-5-25 — Semantic cartography, AI workflows

This week we feature articles from Nicolas Figay, and Adham Khaled.

Additional reading comes from Gaurav Anand, Cobus Greyling, UX Movement, and Mat Honan.

News comes from Adobe, Bloomreach & Uniform, MariaDB, and Graphwise.

Our next issue arrives November 19th.

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Opinion / Analysis

Semantic Graphs: Going beyond the semantic conflation of “metadata” and “graph” labels

“Semantic and graph technologies are gaining traction. Unfortunately, this rise often comes with an overload of buzzwords — and even semantic conflations across terms… This article explores that phenomenon, starting with metadata and drawing an analogy with graph. It highlights the need for clarity and rigor, while pointing out the communication challenge of presenting innovation amidst the buzzword soup.”

As you read Nicolas Figay’s piece, imagine all the confusion, misunderstandings, and wildly diverse expectations possible among your project team. (7 min)

https://medium.com/@nfigay/semantic-graphs-going-beyond-the-semantic-conflation-of-metadata-and-graph-labels-c2c0b5d3b5b6

Perplexity at Work Guide review

Adham Khaled: “I spent 40 hours testing Perplexity’s secret 42-page Work Guide… This playbook promises to replace ChatGPT, Google, and your VA. I tested every workflow — and found brutal truths about what actually saves money (and what’s pure marketing hype).”

The Work Guide describes Perplexity’s internal workflow, and is now freely available. The Work Guide and Khaled’s review are relevant and useful whether you use Perplexity or not, since most enterprise AI workflows are experimental. (9 min)

https://pub.aimind.so/i-spent-40-hours-testing-perplexitys-secret-42-page-work-guide-5c5bcdab8558

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Content technology news

Adobe delivers new AI assistants and models across Creative Cloud

AI features across Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, and Illustrator focused on efficiency, precision & control.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/10/adobe-max-2025-creative-cloud

Bloomreach and Uniform unveil turnkey conversational commerce framework

Aggregates product catalogs from multiple commerce platforms, and enriches them with AI-driven tagging, normalization & metadata optimization. 
https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2025/bloomreach-and-uniform-to-unveil-new-turnkey-conversational-commerce-framework/ ■ https://www.uniform.dev ■ https://machalliance.org

MariaDB unveils unified cloud database platform

MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2026 unites transactional and analytical workloads with native vector search, built-in RAG and intelligent agents.
https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-unveils-unified-cloud-database-platform-designed-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-application-development

Graphwise launches Graph AI Suite

With its built-in AI Flywheel, it turns enterprise knowledge into a self-improving engine for trustable AI by leveraging GraphRAG.
https://graphwise.ai

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Gilbane Advisor 10-15-25 — AI UI & intent, AI app spending

This week we feature articles from Sharang Sharma, and Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko & Seema Amble.

Additional reading comes from Dharmesh Shah, Heiko Hotz, Bob DuCharme, and Sainath Palla.

News comes from TileDB, Grafana Labs, commercetools, and Google.

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Opinion / Analysis

How can AI UI capture intent?

Exploring contextual prompt patterns that capture user intent as it is typed

“AI interfaces become truly intelligent when they anticipate rather than react. Instead of waiting for users to articulate perfect prompts, contextual UI patterns can surface intent naturally whether through adaptive presets for file uploads, dynamic refinement chips for search, or inline tone controls for content creation. Users spend less time explaining what they want and more time refining the results that matter.”

Sharang Sharma shares some appealing examples of what such UI’s could look like. (5 min)

https://uxdesign.cc/how-can-ai-ui-capture-intent-d7a6d0393ded

The AI Application Spending Report

Where startup dollars really go

Enterprise AI application spending is growing rapidly and is where future growth and open-ended opportunity is headed as AI infrastructure capex and foundation model development begin to plateau.

a16z’s Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko, and Seema Amble found some patterns early enterprise AI applications, and identified 50 AI-native application layer companies already in the market. (9 min)

https://a16zenterprise.substack.com/p/the-ai-application-spending-report

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Google announces Gemini Enterprise

The new front door for Google AI in your workplace, Gemini Enterprise is an AI-powered conversational platform designed to bring Google AI to every employee for every workflow.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise

commercetools previews Cora

The AI-native shopping companion for conversational commerce shows how enterprises will be able to deliver human-like continuity across every channel.
https://commercetools.com/press-releases/commercetools-previews-cora

TileDB launches Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform

Carrara can discover, access, and analyze all data types, from structured tables to non-tabular data such as genomics, imaging, documents, models, and agents.
https://www.tiledb.com/blog/introducing-carrara

Grafana Labs releases Grafana Assistant

New AI-powered capabilities accelerate root cause analysis, reduce alert fatigue, and make observability accessible to users at all skill levels.
https://grafana.com/about/press/2025/10/08/grafana-labs-revolutionizes-ai-powered-observability-with-ga-of-grafana-assistant-and-introduces-assistant-investigations/

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