This week we feature articles from Rita Kind-Envy, jreyesr, and Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu & Payal Modi.

Additional reading comes from Giuseppe Futia, Joel Cunningham, Manuj Dhariwa & Shruti Dhariwal, and Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Jay Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, & Polo Chau.

News comes from Box, Snowflake, Brightcove, and Elastic.

It’s hard to believe it’s time for our annual holiday break, especially given the sunny and 60ish weather here in Boston. See you in early January.

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Opinion / Analysis

Inside the coming AI market “supercycle” and how cloud startups can benefit

The Battery Ventures 2024 State of OpenCloud Report

Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu, and Payal Modi provide an optimistic case for investing in AI technology. There is a short summary, followed by lots of useful charts to peruse. (3 min summary)

https://www.battery.com/blog/opencloud-2024

Before Times New Roman, there was something better

What was the 14th century font that foreshadowed Times New Roman? Why are they both so readable? You do care about readability don’t you? Well, even if you don’t, Rita Kind-Envy’s short piece is a fun read, and if nothing else “…you can casually drop what Humanistic minuscule is on your colleagues. Random facts are cool…” (7 min)

https://uxdesign.cc/before-times-new-roman-there-was-something-better-e227f34796c4

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

I have to admit to a certain nostalgia for markup languages and formatting software given my time working on and with both. As “jreyesr” says, Typst looks like an interesting project, and his post was well worth the time to read. (85 min)

https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst

More Reading

• Little Language Models: Empowering children to be future AI modelers via MIT Media Lab
• This Chrome extension uploads all your old tweets to Bluesky via Lifehacker
• Transformer Explainer: LLM transformer model visually explainedvia Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ontology reasoning in knowledge graphs via Towards Data Science

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Content technology news

Box announces Box AI Studio

Box AI Studio delivers the ability to choose AI models and enables the creation and deployment of Box AI agents tailored to unique needs.
https://blog.box.com/intelligent-content-management-innovations-boxworks-2024

Snowflake announces availability of Unistore with Hybrid Tables

Unistore with Hybrid Tables brings transactional and analytical data together in a single unified platform, simplifying data architectures.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/unistore-general-availability

Brightcove launches Marketing Studio for sales

The solution empowers global sales teams to create personalized videos while centralized teams manage brand quality and optimize content.
https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-marketing-studio-for-sales

Elastic announces AI ecosystem to accelerate GenAI application development

Elasticsearch vector database integrations with curated AI technology provides developers resources to expedite the deployment of RAG applications.
https://ir.elastic.co/news/news-details/2024/Elastic-Announces-AI-Ecosystem-to-Accelerate-GenAI-Application-Development/default.aspx

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This week we feature articles from Rafe Brena, and Benjamin Brooks. 

Additional reading comes from Jenna Ahart, Astasia Myers, Van Chien Nguyen et al, and Joan Westenberg.

News comes from OpenAI, Coveo & Shopify, DataStax, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive November 20.

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Opinion / Analysis

Agents are coming back from the dead

Rafe Brena has a delightful piece on the history of agents. It is fun, non-technical, and should be of interest to “anybody thinking about developing “agents” or just considering using them.” Be sure to checkout the link to Apple’s 1987 five-minute video of a “Knowledge Navigator”. (8 min)

https://pub.towardsai.net/agents-are-coming-back-from-the-dead-50c929ab8387

AI search could break the web

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.

Navigating the complex intersection of web ecosystem health, copyright and legal issues, AI / machine learning ethical issues, and current and potential regulations, is daunting. Even moreso given diverse type of expertise required for well-informed decision making. Benjamin Brooks provides some helpful clarity. (6 min)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1106504/ai-search-could-break-the-web

More Reading

• A survey of small language models A useful resource for researchers and practitioners. via Van Chien Nguyen et al
• An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells via MIT Technology Review
• The three components of the unstructured data stack and the author/investor wants to hear from relevant startups. via Memory Leak
• Is podcasting’s golden age already over? via Westenberg.

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Content technology news

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT search

ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon or links to sources.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search

Coveo partners with Shopify

The partnership brings AI search, generative, product discovery and dynamic session optimization commerce experiences to enterprise customers.
https://www.coveo.com/en/integrations/shopify-search

DataStax expands Astra DB extension for GitHub Copilot

Manage and interact with Astra DB and create Langflow GenAI applications through a more intuitive natural language interface.
https://www.datastax.com/blog/astra-db-extension-github-copilot-updates

Salesforce launches Agentforce

Agentforce delivers autonomous AI agents that can connect to enterprise data and take action across sales, service, marketing, and commerce.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2024/10/29/agentforce-general-availability-announcement/

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This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and David Weinberger. 

Additional reading comes from Chris Messina, David Haber, Chance Miller, and Michael Parekh.

News comes from Semantic Web Company & Ontotext, Perplexity, Acquia, and Sitecore.

Our next issue will arrive November 6.

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Opinion / Analysis

The LLM reasoning debate heats up

Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models

Melanie Mitchell describes each papers’ methodology, and findings, and concludes that “… there’s no consensus about the conclusion!” This may not be a surprise, but her article is a very readable and useful update. (11 min)

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/the-llm-reasoning-debate-heats-up

AI doesn’t think like us

David Weinberger wears his philosophy hat to make his case in this journal essay. The result is an especially thoughtful and balanced contribution to discussions about “knowledge” in a world of humans and machine learning. Prepare to think. (15 min)

https://dweinberger.medium.com/ai-doesnt-think-like-us-81a6fdc33e2a

More Reading

• The messy inbox problem: wedge strategies in AI apps… for small business and front office via a16z
• Prove it yourself… Apple shares Private Cloud Compute resources for researchers via 9to5Mac
• The road to Arc 2.0 – Will the Chrome killer become the user agent of the LLM era? via Chris Messina
• What’s easier… Catching rockets vs unsupervised self driving cars & robots via Michael Parek

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Content technology news

Semantic Web Company and Ontotext merge to create Graphwise

The knowledge graph management platform includes complete multi-modal data support – unstructured, semi-structured and structured data.
https://graphwise.ai

Perplexity introduces Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces

 With Perplexity Pro and Enterprise Pro, you can search across both public web content and internal knowledge bases, and collaborate in Perplexity Spaces.
https://www.perplexity.ai/enterprise

Acquia adds new AI capabilities for digital asset management

Acquia Video Creator, by Moovly, is now available as an add-on module to Acquia DAM and PIM (product information management) solutions.
https://www.acquia.com/products/acquia-dam

Sitecore launches Sitecore Stream

Sitecore Stream helps orchestrate marketer experience across Sitecore solutions, including XM Cloud, Content Hub, and Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
https://www.sitecore.com/products/sitecore-stream

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This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagel, and Tula Masterman.

Additional reading comes from Michal Malewicz, Tari Ibaba, Eugen Rochko, Rachel Andrew, and Sara Fischer.

News comes from MongoDB, Magnolia, Movable Ink, and Optimizely.

Our next issue will arrive October 30.

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Opinion / Analysis

An imperfect Canvas … but an interesting first step

OpenAI… “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project. This early beta introduces a new way of working together—not just through conversation, but by creating and refining ideas side by side.” 

Kurt Cagel has taken Canvas for a spin, and describes his experience using the basic editing capabilities. (6 min)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imperfect-canvas-interesting-first-step-kurt-cagle-1gwvc

AI agents: The intersection of tool calling and reasoning in generative AI

Tula Masterman’s article “… focuses on how reasoning is expressed through tool calling, explores some of the challenges of tool use, covers common ways to evaluate tool-calling ability, and provides examples of how different models and agents interact with tools.” is a valuable resource. Be sure to check out The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard V3 she references. (11 min)

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/ai-agents-the-intersection-of-tool-calling-and-reasoning-in-generative-ai-ff268eece443

More Reading

• The Gaze Principle — Why most websites do it wrong via Michal Malewicz
• Nobody wants to use these HTML tags via Coding Beauty
• Mastodon 4.3 – New safety and discovery tools and a refreshed look via Mastodon Blog
• OpenAI and Hearst strike content deal via Axios
• New to the web platform in September via web.dev blog

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Content technology news

MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

The document database has performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities.
https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Magnolia integrates Magnolia DXP with Veeva Vault PromoMats

Marketers can create digital experiences for multiple channels using MLR reviewed and approved assets in Veeva Vault PromoMats.
https://www.magnolia-cms.com

Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

Joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations.
https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

Optimizely to acquire NetSpring

Optimizely’s DXP provides “warehouse native” analytics, enabling customers to tie experimentation and other digital experience activities to business metrics.
https://www.optimizely.com/netspring

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This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont.

Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca.

News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive October 9.

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Opinion / Analysis

Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD

Michael Andrews argues this separation is more critical than ever, and that the decades old discussions about this topic “don’t account for the current changes reshaping today’s digital ecosystems (e.g., the development of design systems, structured content, and the shift to composable and headless architectures.)”. Andrews starts a more modern discussion. (21 min)

https://storyneedle.com/separating-content-and-presentation-moving-past-fud/

ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store, Part 2

Andréas Saudemont’s case-study/tutorial is useful for those curious about ScyllaDB, or anyone who has struggled with similar limitations of relational DBs — see his link to (a shorter) Part 1. (18 min)

https://medium.engineering/scylladb-implementation-lists-in-mediums-feature-store-part-2-905299c89392

More Reading

• Good resource… ML and LLM system design: 450 case studies to learn from via Evidently AI
• Llama can now see and run on your device – welcome Llama 3.2 via Hugging Face
• Improving human deception detection using algorithmic feedback. Timing matters unsurprisingly. via CESifo
• The AI Blues – Is AI getting worse? Or are we getting pickier via O’Reilly Radar

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Content technology news

Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models

Molmo goes beyond today’s most advanced multimodal models by creating open models that can now point and act in the visual world.
https://molmo.allenai.org/blog

Contentstack adds visual building capabilities to CMS

The composable digital experience platform (DXP) based on the enterprise headless CMS with Visual Builder accelerates workflows for marketers.
https://www.contentstack.com/platforms/visual-building

MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI

Designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer natural language questions for AI applications and agents.
https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-launches-conversational-enterprise-ready-ai-that-shows-you-how-it-thinks

Salesforce to acquire Zoomin

Will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents for more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-zoomin/

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This week we feature articles from Amanda Kau, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan.

Additional reading comes from Ben Dickson, Fulala Fulalasen, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Paul Sawers.

News comes from Brightspot, Adobe, Hubspot, and DeepL.

Our next issue will arrive October  2.

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Opinion / Analysis

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan tackle a critical issue…
“In a new paper, we introduce CORE-Bench (Computational Reproducibility Agent Benchmark), a benchmark for measuring how well AI can automate computational reproducibility, that is, reproducing a paper’s findings when the code and data are available.”

Introduction: (5 min) 
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/can-ai-automate-computational-reproducibility
Full paper:
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11363v1
HTML: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.11363v1

Dynamic knowledge graphs: a next step for data representation?

How do you integrate temporal data into knowledge graphs? What’s the difference between dynamic knowledge graphs, temporal knowledge graphs, and discrete time dynamic graphs? What kinds of applications are they used for? And how do they work, or compete with, LLMs? Amanda Kau does a nice job addressing these and other questions. (9 min)

https://medium.com/@researchgraph/dynamic-knowledge-graphs-a-next-step-for-data-representation-c35a205a520a

More Reading

• For web developers who like to debate… Web crap has taken control via fulalas
• Apple aims for on-device user intent understanding with UI-JEPA models via VentureBeat
• Ouchy!… Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers via TechCrunch
• The LinkedIn optout AI scandal via Cassie Kozyrkov

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Content technology news

Brightspot announces latest version of their content management system

Updated CMS has expansive tech stack integrations, AI features that speed up creation time, and prioritizes streamlined content workflows.
https://www.brightspot.com

HubSpot launches Breeze, updates Marketing & Content Hubs

Breeze includes Copilot, an AI companion; Agents, AI experts who complete work from start to finish; 80+ AI features embedded across the platform.
https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/fall24-spotlight

DeepL announces glossary generator

Companies can create and manage custom translation glossaries so specific words or phrases are translated consistently according to their unique terminology.
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

Adobe Experience Cloud updates help personalize and measure AI-generated content

New offerings enable brands to personalize AI-generated content variations across channels such as web and email to boost customer engagement.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Unveils-Innovations-in-Adobe-Experience-Cloud-for-Brands-to-Personalize-and-Measure-AI-generated-Content/default.aspx

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This week we feature articles from Alberto Romero, and Tony Seale

Additional reading comes from Mike Knoop, Emma Roth, Frederic Lardinois, and Michael Nuñez.

News comes from Cloudera, Adobe, Brightcove, and SearchStax & Magnolia.

Our next issue will arrive September 25.

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Opinion / Analysis

OpenAI o1: A new paradigm for AI

Alberto Romero provides a high-level yet in-depth explanation of OpenAI’s latest model that “reasons” and opines on what it means near and long-term. In spite of the presence of “paradigm” in the title, Romero does a nice job balancing enthusiasm and skepticism. A thoughtful read. (19 min)

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/openai-o1-a-new-paradigm-for-ai

LLMs, faking, it and abductive reasoning

Tony Seale’s short post on three types of reasoning is good companion piece to Romero’s…

“A practical implementation of this [Ed.: abductive reasoning] might integrate the inductive curve-fitting capabilities of large language models with the formal inference mechanisms of knowledge graphs, creating a dynamic neural-symbolic loop.” (2 min – 9 including comments) 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tonyseale_the-question-of-whether-large-language-models-activity-7237731298952302594-T0mN

More Reading

• Benchmark for the AGI-curious… OpenAI o1 results on ARC-AGI-Pub via ARC Prize
• AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella via TechCrunch
• Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes via The Verge
• Ambitious, ya think?… Salesforce’s AgentForce: The AI assistants that want to run your entire business via VentureBeat

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Content technology news

Cloudera adds Accelerators for Machine Learning Projects (AMPs)

AMPs are end-to-end machine learning (ML) based projects that can be deployed with a single-click directly from the Cloudera platform.
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-09-12-cloudera-unveils-new-suite-of-accelerators-for-machine-learning-projects-amps.html

Adobe announces Adobe Express updates and special teams offer

New capabilities help SMBs create on-brand content across Marketing, HR and Sales accelerate content creation and work across teams.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Express-Updates-Deliver-More-Value-for-Solopreneurs-and-SMBs-with-Innovation-and-Special-Teams-Offer/default.aspx

Brightcove unveils Brightcove AI Suite

The Suite includes: AI Content Multiplier, AI Universal Translator, AI Metadata Optimizer, AI Engagement Maximizer, and AI Cost-to-Quality Optimizer.
https://campaigns.brightcove.com/ai-solutions/

SearchStax and Magnolia partner on personalized search solutions

Partnership helps marketers and developers by merging the search capabilities of SearchStax Site Search with Magnolia’s enterprise-grade DXP.
https://www.searchstax.com ■ https://www.magnolia-cms.com

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This week we feature articles from Aparna Dhinakaran, and Alex Russell.

Additional reading comes from Dries Buytaert, Bob DuCharme, Heather Hedden, and Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu & Anna Tong.

News comes from Syncro Soft, Anthropic, Elastic, and Couchbase.

Our next issue will arrive September 18th.

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Opinion / Analysis

Navigating the new types of LLM agents and architectures

“How can teams navigate the new frameworks and new agent directions? What tools are available, and which should you use to build your next application? As a leader at a company that recently built our own complex agent to act as a copilot within our product, we have some insights on this topic.”

Aparna Dhinakaran’s piece is a useful update with some good advice for developers, product architects, and business analysts. (10 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/navigating-the-new-types-of-llm-agents-and-architectures-309382ce9f88

Reckoning: Part 1 — the landscape

Alex Russell’s passionate and detailed “… investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services…” exposes the high cost cost and poor user experience of widely-deployed web services in general.

The focus on public services provides powerful examples, and his web technology experience combine for a compelling case. There are four parts to his investigation – links to the other three are included. Part 1 is (4 min).

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape

More Reading

• A focus on marketers… Introducing Drupal Starshot’s product strategy via Dries Buytaert
• Taxonomies and ontologies as semantic models via The Accidental Taxonomist
• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion, three-months-old and valued at $5 billion via Reuters
• Editing schemas, ontologies, and SKOS taxonomies with VocBench, a free GUI tool. via Bob DuCharme

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Content technology news

Anthropic announces Claude for Enterprise

Claude Enterprise includes an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise-grade security features.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-enterprise

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 3.0

The tool supports AI-generated content within Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html

Elastic returns to open source license for Elasticsearch and Kibana

With the addition of AGPL, an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Elasticsearch & Kibana will be officially considered open source.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

Couchbase expands cloud database platform with Capella Columnar and vector search

Helps streamline development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads in a single database platform.
https://www.couchbase.com/blog/free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more/

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