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The leading applied data science and AI conference, with 4 global events and nearly 180 meetups worldwide every year. https://odsc.ai/west/

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 3d ago

AI builders are evolving alongside the technology. The next wave of AI isn't just about better prompts—it's about designing agentic systems that can plan, coordinate, use tools, and operate reliably in production. opendatascience.com/agentic-stac...

Agentic Stack Shift: Prompt Engineer to Agent Architect

PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer put the average wage premium for AI skills at 62%, up from 56% a year earlier and 25% in 2024. That premium is not attached to prompting ability so much as to...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Innovation doesn't just depend on better AI models. It also depends on who has access to them. OpenAI's latest initiative aims to give 100,000 researchers free access to frontier AI models, supporting the next generation of AI research and discovery. opendatascience.com/openai-offer...

OpenAI Offers 100,000 Researchers Free Access to Frontier AI Models

Can expanded access to frontier AI accelerate scientific discovery? OpenAI believes it can. The company has launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program designed to give 100,000 scientists, ma...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 5d ago

As AI adoption grows, so does the need for smarter cybersecurity. Microsoft's latest AI model focuses on making threat detection more cost-effective, helping security teams scale AI-powered defenses while managing operational costs. opendatascience.com/microsoft-un...

Microsoft Unveils Cost-Saving AI Model for Cybersecurity

Can Microsoft improve vulnerability detection while lowering the cost of AI-powered cybersecurity? The company says its new MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model delivers leading performance at half the cost of com...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 5d ago

AI security is becoming a shared responsibility. NVIDIA, Microsoft, and other technology leaders have joined the Open AI Security Alliance, signaling a growing industry focus on securing AI systems as adoption accelerates. Read more: opendatascience.com/nvidia-micro... #DataScience #ODSC

NVIDIA, Microsoft, and SpaceXAI Launch Open AI Security Alliance

Can open-weight AI models strengthen cyber defense? NVIDIA and more than 30 technology, cybersecurity, and research organizations believe they can. The companies have launched the Open Secure AI Allia...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 6d ago

AI is reshaping drug discovery. Bristol Myers Squibb's latest investment in NVIDIA's AI platform highlights how life sciences are moving beyond AI pilots toward production-scale research. Here's why this matters for the future of healthcare and AI. opendatascience.com/bristol-myer... #ODSC

Bristol Myers Buys Nvidia’s Latest AI System for Drug Research

Can advanced AI infrastructure help pharmaceutical companies discover medicines faster and improve their chances of clinical success? Bristol Myers Squibb believes it can. The drugmaker plans to purch...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last wk.

Most AI conferences are built for watching. The best AI learning happens when you build, ask questions, collaborate, and solve real problems alongside the people doing the work. Discover why ODSC AI West is designed as a hands-on experience. opendatascience.com/most-ai-conf...

Most AI Conferences Are Watch-and-Listen. ODSC West Isn’t.

What is the real problem with most AI conferences? Too often, they treat technical professionals as an audience rather than participants. You enter a dark ballroom, face a polished stage, and watch sp...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last wk.

Better AI results don't always come from better models. Sometimes they come from giving better instructions. Learn the four fundamental ways humans communicate intent to AI systems. opendatascience.com/four-ways-to...

Four Ways to Tell a Machine What You Want | Michael L. Littman

Andrej Karpathy’s line that English has become “the hottest new programming language” gets repeated often enough in AI circles to sound settled. Skip the syntax, describe what you wa...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last wk.

Chatbots answer questions. AI agents accomplish goals. As AI evolves from conversation to action, organizations need to rethink how they design, deploy, and trust intelligent systems. Explore what changes when AI can plan, use tools, and execute real-world tasks. opendatascience.com/from-chatbot...

From Chatbots to Agentic AI: What Changes When AI Can Take Action?

What changes when artificial intelligence moves from answering questions to taking action? The shift from chatbots to agentic AI turns a responsive interface into an operational system that can pursue...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last wk.

Most AI teams still test the model. But production failures rarely come from the model alone. Once an AI agent can call tools, access APIs, retrieve data, and take actions, you need to test the entire system—not just its responses. opendatascience.com/how-to-red-t...

How to Red Team an AI Agent Before It Reaches Your Users

What does it actually mean to red team an AI agent before it reaches your users? In my view, it means testing far more than the model’s wording. It means pressure-testing what the agent can read, reme...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI infrastructure is becoming a hardware-choice race. AMD’s Helios rack-scale system, planned for Azure deployment, aims to give teams more compute capacity and lower inference costs beyond Nvidia’s ecosystem. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/amd-launches...

AMD Launches Helios AI Rack System as Microsoft Expands Azure Infrastructure

Can AMD’s Helios platform become a credible alternative to Nvidia’s dominant AI infrastructure? Microsoft appears willing to test that possibility. The company plans to deploy AMD’s first rack-scale A...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI’s biggest shifts are happening where policy, cost, and deployment meet. This week’s recap covers frontier model access, OpenAI’s government stake proposal, Claude Sonnet 5, DeepSeek inference gains, open-weight models, and the enterprise AI hiring surge. #ODSC opendatascience.com/in-case-you-...

In Case You Missed It: Last Week in AI: June 29–July 5, 2026

The government moved from gatekeeper to shareholder in frontier AI. The Commerce Department lifted the export controls that had pulled Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, and OpenAI floate...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI governance is becoming a global coordination challenge. The UN’s first Global Dialogue on AI Governance focuses on safe, inclusive, accountable AI, with every country involved in shaping the rules. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/un-opens-glo...

UN Opens Global AI Governance Dialogue With Call For Safe And Inclusive AI

Why is the United Nations launching a global dialogue on AI governance now? Because artificial intelligence is moving faster than many national and international policy frameworks can manage, the UN w...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI memory is becoming a market signal. SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing plans highlight investor demand for HBM, advanced chips, and the infrastructure behind large-scale AI workloads. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/sk-hynix-nas...

SK Hynix Nasdaq Listing Signals Investor Demand For AI Memory

Why does SK Hynix’s U.S. listing matter for AI teams? Because the company sits near the center of the high-bandwidth memory market that powers modern AI infrastructure. SK Hynix is launching a roughly...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

Frontier AI is now shaped by review, infrastructure, and trust. This week’s recap covers GPT-5.6, Claude Mythos 5, OpenAI’s inference chip, model distillation concerns, and AI moving deeper into enterprise and design workflows. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/in-case-you-...

In Case You Missed It: Last Week in AI: Week of June 22–28, 2026

The clearest pattern of the week was government review moving to the center of how frontier models ship. OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 family in a government-gated preview, and Anthropic got a narrow cl...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI quality still needs human expertise. Ford rehiring veteran engineers shows that automated systems can support production, but domain knowledge remains critical when reliability, safety, and manufacturing quality are at stake. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/ford-rehires...

Ford Rehires Veteran Engineers After AI Quality Systems Fall Short

Why did Ford bring back veteran engineers after investing in AI-driven quality systems? The company found that artificial intelligence and automated systems could not yet match the judgment of experie...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI infrastructure is becoming national strategy. South Korea’s $518B chip plan focuses on semiconductors, advanced packaging, fabs, and supply chains built for the AI compute race. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/south-koreas...

South Korea’s $518 Billion Chip Plan Targets the AI Infrastructure Race

Why is South Korea pushing Samsung and SK Hynix into another major semiconductor buildout? The answer is simple: artificial intelligence has turned advanced memory, high-bandwidth chips, and domestic ...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI leaders are entering a new efficiency era. OpenAI and Anthropic face growing pressure to reduce compute costs, energy use, and infrastructure demands while scaling frontier models. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/openai-and-a...

OpenAI And Anthropic Face A New AI Efficiency Reality

Are enterprises moving away from “tokenmaxxing” and unlimited AI spending? Yes. Companies that once pushed developers and teams to use frontier AI models as much as possible now want clearer ROI, tigh...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI infrastructure is becoming national economic strategy. Samsung’s reported $648B South Korea investment points to the growing importance of chips, data centers, energy, talent, and regional planning. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/samsungs-rep...

Samsung’s Reported $648 Billion AI Bet Could Reshape South Korea’s Chip Economy

Can South Korea turn the AI chip boom into a national growth engine? A reported Samsung Group investment plan suggests that the goal now sits near the center of the country’s economic strategy. Accord...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

Agentic AI needs optimization, not just orchestration. MIT and Microsoft’s Murakkab helps reduce AI agent compute, cost, and energy use by dynamically configuring workflows around speed, accuracy, latency, and efficiency. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/mit-and-micr...

MIT And Microsoft Introduce Murakkab To Cut AI Agent Costs And Energy Use

How can cloud providers make AI agents faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient without sacrificing performance? Researchers from MIT and Microsoft believe the answer lies in Murakkab, a new system ...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

Agentic AI is pushing data centers toward inference-first design. Qualcomm’s Dragonfly roadmap focuses on higher token throughput, lower latency, and better performance per watt for enterprise AI workloads. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/qualcomm-exp...

Qualcomm Expands Its Data Center Roadmap For Agentic AI

What does Qualcomm’s new Dragonfly roadmap mean for AI infrastructure? It signals a stronger push into inference-first data centers built for agentic AI, where workloads require higher token throughpu...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

LLM inference is becoming a chip-design challenge. OpenAI and Broadcom’s Jalapeno AI chip points to the need for faster, more efficient hardware built for large-scale AI workloads. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/openai-and-b...

OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño AI Chip for LLM Inference

What does OpenAI’s first custom AI chip mean for AI infrastructure? It signals that leading AI companies want more control over the hardware layer that powers model inference, from chatbot responses t...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI in education now depends on teacher training, not just new tools. Microsoft’s 2026 report points to a growing need for practical AI skills, classroom guidance, and responsible adoption across schools. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/microsofts-2...

Microsoft’s 2026 AI in Education Report Shows Schools Need More AI Training

What does Microsoft’s 2026 AI in Education Report reveal about AI adoption in schools? It shows that students, educators, and education leaders already use AI at high rates, but many still lack the fo...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · last mo.

AI in filmmaking is becoming a workflow design question. Google DeepMind and A24 are partnering to test AI tools with filmmakers, focusing on creative control, feedback, and artist-led production. #AI #DataScience #ODSC opendatascience.com/google-deepm...

Google DeepMind And A24 Partner To Shape AI-Driven Filmmaking Workflows

What happens when a major AI research lab works directly with an independent film studio known for filmmaker-led storytelling? Google DeepMind and A24 aim to answer that question through a new researc...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cloudflare is adding Ensemble AI talent to strengthen Workers AI, with a focus on model compression, scalable inference, GPU utilization, and making advanced AI workloads faster and more cost-effective to deploy. opendatascience.com/cloudflare-e...

Cloudflare Expands AI Infrastructure Team With Ensemble AI Talent

How does Cloudflare plan to reduce the cost of running advanced AI models? The company is adding key members of Ensemble AI to its machine learning engineering team, bringing new expertise in model co...

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Open Data Science Conference@odsc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropic’s Claude Corps will train early-career fellows on Claude and place them inside nonprofits, helping mission-driven organizations build practical AI skills while supporting work in areas like education, food access, conservation, and community services. opendatascience.com/anthropic-la...

Anthropic Launches Claude Corps To Bring AI Skills To Nonprofits Across America

What is Claude Corps, and why does it matter for AI adoption? Claude Corps is Anthropic’s new national fellowship program designed to train early-career workers on Claude and place them inside nonprof...

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