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Gilbane Advisor 6-25-25 — Designer CMSs, C2PA progress

June 25, 2025 /

This week we feature articles from Kate Holterhoff, and Tim Bray.

Additional reading comes from Andrej Karpathy, Ethan Mollick, and Arun Arora, Ido Segev, & Sub Datta.

News comes from CLX Europe & ALLSIDES Media, Algolia, Adobe, and Deepgram.

Our next issue arrives July 9.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Introducing the designer-first CMS

Kate Holterhoff explains the emergence of designer-first CMSs, discusses how other categories of CMSs have evolved, and provides a very useful description of today’s landscape. An excellent read for anyone in the market for a CMS. (11 min)

https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2025/06/03/introducing-the-designer-first-cms/

June 2025 C2PA news

Tim Bray has a positive update on the progress of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)…

“Things are happening in the C2PA world; here are a couple of useful steps forward, plus cheers and boos for Adobe. Plus a live working C2PA demo you can try out.” (6 min)

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/17/More-C2PA

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CLX Europe launches creative content studio in Paris focused on 3D scanning technology

Generative AI, high-resolution 3D scanning, and creative expertise to create digital content production for luxury fashion brands and eCommerce players.
https://www.clxeurope.com ■ https://www.allsides.tech

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents — The MCP server enables LLMs and autonomous agents to retrieve, reason with, and act on real-time business context from Algolia.
https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-introduces-context-aware-retrieval-for-the-agentic-era 

Adobe announces LLM Optimizer

LLM Optimizer enables businesses to monitor AI-driven traffic and benchmark brand visibility, with recommendations that can be quickly deployed across digital properties.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/06/adobe-llm-optimizer-empowers-businesses-drive-brand-visibility

Deepgram launches Voice Agent API

The Voice Agent API provides a single, unified API that integrates speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech with built-in support for real-time conversational dynamics.
https://deepgram.com/learn/voice-agent-api-generally-available

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CLX Europe launches creative content studio in Paris focused on 3D scanning technology

June 18, 2025 /

CLX Europe, an eClerx company, introduced its new content creation studio in Paris, France today, during its participation in Viva Technology 2025, Europe’s premier technology event.

Through CLX Europe’s partnership with ALLSIDES Media (previously Covision Media), this cutting-edge studio leverages generative AI, high-resolution 3D scanning, and creative expertise to seamlessly create digital content production for luxury fashion brands and eCommerce players.

Operational since February 2025, the studio deploys ALLSIDES technology to create immersive, photorealistic content that enhances digital storytelling and engagement. With this digital-first approach to creative content production, the Paris studio will be able to offer:

  • Automated 3D asset production: Re-lightable, reality-grade models with minimal manual intervention
  • Scalability and speed: High-volume, customized content creation for fast-paced digital demands
  • Omnichannel integration: Assets optimized for eCommerce, social media, AR/VR, and virtual try-ons

This approach will also further CLX Europe’s mission for more sustainable practices, dramatically reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions for clients without sacrificing quality.

The addition of the Paris studio will not only allow CLX Europe to offer realistic-grade content production for luxury brands, but also open the door for the creation of groundbreaking 3D assets.

https://www.clxeurope.com ■ https://www.allsides.tech

Algolia introduces context-aware retrieval for agents

June 17, 2025 /

Algolia, an AI-native search and discovery platform, released its MCP Server, the first component in a broader strategy to support AI agents. This new offering enables large language models (LLMs) and autonomous agents to retrieve, reason with, and act on real-time business context from Algolia.

With the Algolia MCP Server, agents can access Algolia’s search, analytics, recommendations, and index configuration APIs through a standards-based, secure runtime. This turns Algolia into a real-time context surface for agents embedded in commerce, service, and productivity experiences. Additionally, Algolia’s explainability framework with its AI is included for enhanced transparency.

Algolia’s MCP Server is purpose-built for enterprise-grade agent orchestration, enforcing policy at the protocol layer to ensure agents operate within role- and context-sensitive boundaries. It provides end-to-end observability, making every agent-triggered decision fully traceable and inspectable. The platform also enables privacy-aware personalization that complies with regional regulations like GDPR and CCPA, without relying on invasive tracking.

Enterprise customers, developers, and partners can start building AI-native applications, copilots, and intelligent agents today. Algolia’s MCP Server supports Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and can be integrated with leading LLM runtimes.

https://www.algolia.com/about/news/algolia-introduces-context-aware-retrieval-for-the-agentic-era

Deepgram launches Voice Agent API

June 16, 2025 /

Deepgram, a voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, announced the general availability of its Voice Agent API, a single, unified voice-to-voice interface that gives developers full control to build context-aware voice agents that power natural, responsive conversations. Combining speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and large language model (LLM) orchestration with contextualized conversational logic into a unified architecture, the Voice Agent API gives developers the choice of using Deepgram’s fully integrated stack (leveraging Nova-3 STT and Aura-2 TTS models) or bringing their own LLM and TTS models. It delivers simplicity for developers and the controllability enterprises need to deploy voice agents.

Deepgram’s Voice Agent API provides a single, unified API that integrates speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech with built-in support for real-time conversational dynamics. Capabilities such as barge-in handling and turn-taking prediction are model-driven and managed natively within the platform.

While the Voice Agent API streamlines development, it also gives teams control over performance, behavior, and scalability in production. Built on Deepgram’s Enterprise Runtime and model ownership across the voice AI stack, the platform enables model-level optimization at every layer of the interaction loop for precise tuning of latency, barge-in handling, turn-taking, and domain-specific behavior in ways not possible with disconnected components.

https://deepgram.com/learn/voice-agent-api-generally-available

Adobe announces LLM Optimizer

June 16, 2025 /

Adobe announced Adobe LLM Optimizer, an enterprise application that enables businesses to gain new relevance where consumers are embracing generative AI-powered interfaces to engage brands. With Adobe LLM Optimizer, teams can stay ahead of shifting consumer behaviors and remain top-of-mind in the AI era. A suite of features will enable businesses to monitor AI-driven traffic and benchmark brand visibility, while receiving recommendations that can be quickly deployed on their digital properties to improve discoverability, engagement and conversion.

LLM Optimizer will be able to identify owned content (details on a website for instance) that is being leveraged by AI-powered interfaces to deliver responses to user queries. This provides teams with a real-time pulse on how their brand is showing up across browsers and chat services.

A recommendation engine detects gaps in brand visibility and suggests improvements across both owned (web pages, FAQs) and external (Wikipedia, public forums) channels — based on attributes prioritized by LLMs including high-quality, informative content from authoritative sources.

LLM Optimizer is built to support existing workflows across SEO leads, content strategists, digital marketers and web publishers, and supports enterprise-ready frameworks such as Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), to integrate LLM Optimizer with third-party solutions and partners.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/06/adobe-llm-optimizer-empowers-businesses-drive-brand-visibility

Gilbane Advisor 6-11-25 — Future knowledge graphs, knocking LLMs

June 11, 2025 /

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Gary Marcus.

Additional reading comes from Benjamin A. Spiegel, Astasia Myers, Denise Holt, and Lindsay Clark.

News comes from TransPerfect, Sigma, ContentStack, and Wondershare.

Our next issue arrives June 25.

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

Opinion / Analysis

The future of knowledge graphs

If you read last week’s featured and popular article on the evolving landscape of graph models, you’ll also want to check out this just-published piece by Kurt Cagle on knowledge graph technologies, LLMs, and where they’re headed. (19 min)

https://ontologist.substack.com/p/the-future-of-knowledge-graphs

A knockout blow for LLMs?

In October Apple released a mostly well-received paper arguing that LLMs don’t do formal reasoning, and just released a follow-up paper. Marcus reviews the new paper. He also quotes a thread from VC Josh Wolfe which summarizes the main points that will take you all of a minute to read, but you’ll want to read the full Marcus review. (7 min)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

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TransPerfect launches app for mobile interpretation

The TransPerfect Interpretation App, enables users to connect to a live, expertly trained video or phone interpreter in seconds.
https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-launches-new-app-mobile-interpretation

Sigma launches semantic layer integration and AI SQL capabilities on Snowflake

New integrations and capabilities make semantic layers and unstructured file querying fully accessible in Sigma’s spreadsheet UI.
https://www.sigmacomputing.com/resources/announcements/sigma-launches-native-semantic-layer-integration-and-ai-sql-capabilities-on-snowflake-ai-data-cloud

Contentstack unveils Contentstack Data and Insights

Contentstack Data and Insights capabilities for audience analytics and real-time data activation now integrated into Contentstack’s EDGE DXP.
https://www.contentstack.com

Wondershare EdrawMax V14.5 debuts

The EdrawMax AI Diagram Creator enables users to instantly convert their ideas into various diagrams, including architectural diagrams, slides, infographics, posters, and more.
https://www.edrawsoft.com/ad/edrawmax-edrawsoftware

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The Gilbane Advisor is authored by Frank Gilbane and is ad-free, cost-free, and curated for content, computing, data, web, and digital experience technology and information professionals. We publish recommended articles and content technology news most Wednesdays. We do not sell or share personal data.

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Wondershare EdrawMax V14.5 debuts

June 5, 2025 /

Wondershare unveiled the latest version of its diagramming software, EdrawMax V14.5. EdrawMax is one of the first mobile diagramming applications supporting AI diagramming features for AI-driven diagram and graphic creation.

EdrawMax V14.5 introduces the AI Diagram Creator across both mobile and desktop platforms, featuring capabilities like AI One-Click Replicate. Additionally, this update debuts tools such as the PowerPoint Add-in and Photo to Diagram Converter.

The EdrawMax AI Diagram Creator enables users to instantly convert their ideas into various diagrams, including architectural diagrams, slides, infographics, posters, knowledge cards and so on. Users simply input their ideas, and the AI-powered system can generate visually appealing results, logically structured diagrams with harmonized color schemes and optimized layouts.

Notable features include the AI One-Click Replicate, which revolutionizes diagram creation. After selecting a template and inputting relevant text, EdrawMax automatically analyzes the text’s logical structure, matches it to an appropriate template, and generates a corresponding diagram. Currently supported diagram types include flowcharts, mind maps, slides, posters.

The software also introduces an exclusive Photo-to-Diagram feature on mobile devices, which can accurately convert captured images, even handwritten notes, into editable diagram files. This allows mobile creative workflows, effectively transforming smartphones into portable intelligent design studios.

https://www.edrawsoft.com/ad/edrawmax-edrawsoftware

TransPerfect launches app for mobile interpretation

June 5, 2025 /

TransPerfect, the largest provider of language and AI solutions for global business, today announced it has launched the TransPerfect Interpretation App, enabling users to connect to a live, expertly trained video or phone interpreter in seconds. 

Available on the web, iOS, Android, and Microsoft devices, the app makes accessing over-the-phone interpretation and video remote interpretation simple and fast. It supports 200+ languages, including American Sign Language, enabling users across multiple industries to quickly and effectively respond to customer needs. It’s ideal for hospitals, medical and benefit providers, financial branches, legal, retail stores, first responders, and others in any situation where customer interactions happen outside of a contact center.

To use the app, simply select a language from the menu and tap to choose audio or video interpretation. If a video interpreter is not available, the call will automatically route to an audio interpreter.

Available to all existing TransPerfect customers, the app enables users to:

  • Capture necessary data (account numbers, claim numbers, medical record numbers, etc.)
  • Adjust the audio, mute lines, turn video on and off
  • Add additional parties regardless of whether they have the application installed
  • Capture user satisfaction at the end of every call (customizable by client)

https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-launches-new-app-mobile-interpretation

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