Palo Alto Networks Completes CyberArk Acquisition to Strengthen Identity Security in the AI Era Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of CyberArk, positioning identity security as a central pillar of its platform strategy. The move expands Palo Alto Networks’ capabilities across human...

Palo Alto Networks completes its acquisition of CyberArk, reinforcing the company's AI-era platform strategy. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/palo-alto-ne...

Heineken to Cut Up To 6,000 Jobs as AI-Driven Productivity Plan Accelerates Dutch brewer Heineken plans to eliminate between 5,000 and 6,000 roles over the next two years as it pushes forward with AI-enabled productivity savings. The workforce reduction represents up to 7% of...

Heineken plans to cut up to 6,000 jobs as part of AI-driven productivity savings under its EverGreen 2030 strategy, following a 2.4% decline. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/heineken-to-...

Uber Eats Launches AI Cart Assistant for Grocery Delivery Uber Eats has introduced a new artificial intelligence feature designed to simplify grocery shopping. The company announced Wednesday that its platform now includes an AI-powered cart assistant that a...

Uber Eats launches an AI cart assistant that builds grocery lists from text or images, expanding its AI capabilities amid competition. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/uber-eats-la...

From Demos to Deployment: Key Lessons from the Agentic AI Summit Over three weeks, the Agentic AI Summit brought together the builders, researchers, and enterprise leaders who are actively defining what agentic AI looks like in production—not demos, not hype, but r...

Agentic AI has moved from experiments to production. Explore the key lessons from the Agentic AI Summit, and why builders are heading to ODSC AI East next. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/from-demos-t...

Inside ODSC AI East 2026: Sessions, Speakers, and What to Expect This Year This April 28th-30th, ODSC AI East returns to Boston! Over the course of three action-packed days (and one Accelerator-only day on the 27th!), thousands of data scientists, AI engineers, researchers, ...

Take a look at the initial schedule preview of ODSC AI East 2026, and see what sessions, events, and networking opportunities are in store for you. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/inside-odsc-...

AI in Museums: How the Cleveland Museum of Art Built AI-Powered Experiences That Actually Work When people talk about AI in museums, the conversation often stops at novelty: chatbots answering questions, experimental installations, or flashy demos that quietly disappear a year later. What’s far...

Explore a real-world case study of AI in museums, featuring over a decade of AI-powered experiences at the Cleveland Museum of Art. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/ai-in-museum...

Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning for Better Security Surveillance Security surveillance increasingly uses machine learning (ML) to analyze video streams, detect threats, and enable real-time responses. Automated analytics allow cameras to recognize objects, track ac...

These approaches differ in how they process data, what insights they yield, and how they can enhance video surveillance performance. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/supervised-v...

Operational Observability and Scalable Web Delivery: Data-Driven Practices for Modern Technical Teams Modern-day technical teams rely more on data-driven systems than ever before. Models rank content, approve transactions, personalize experiences, and automate decisions at scale. These systems move fa...

Operational observability, when applied to data and models, tries to close this gap. Without it, teams operate on assumptions instead of evidence. Let’s learn more. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/operational-...

AI Startups Lead Global Venture Capital With $270 Billion in 2025 AI startups attracted more venture capital than every other sector combined in 2025, marking a decisive shift in how global investors deploy capital. According to new data from BestBrokers, AI compani...

AI startups raised $270B in 2025, capturing 52.7% of global VC funding as rounds from OpenAI, Anthropic, & Scale AI reshaped patterns. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/ai-startups-...

OpenAI Frontier Targets the Enterprise “Agent Ops” Gap With Managed AI Coworkers OpenAI has introduced Frontier, a new platform designed to help enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can perform real work across business systems. The announcement positions Frontier ...

OpenAI Frontier is a new enterprise platform for building, deploying, & governing AI agents with shared context, permissions, and evaluation. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #DataScience opendatascience.com/openai-front...

10 Must-See Sessions at the Virtual Agentic AI Summit in January The Agentic AI Summit is a three-week virtual program (January 21–February 5, 2026) designed for practitioners who want to build and ship autonomous AI agents, not just experiment with them, and get h...

Looking for practical agentic AI training? The Agentic AI Summit delivers hands-on workshops, real-world agent architectures, and expert guidance for building autonomous AI systems. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/agentic-ai-t...

The Core Skills AI Practitioners Need for Agentic AI in 2026 Agentic AI isn’t a future concept anymore. It’s quickly becoming the default way organizations think about automation, intelligence, and decision-making as we move toward 2026. At its core, agentic AI...

Agentic AI is becoming the enterprise default. Explore the core agentic AI skills practitioners need in 2026, from architecture and memory to evaluation, RAG, and production systems. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/agentic-ai-s...

Top AI Tools for Sales and Marketing in 2026 The year 2026 is set to redefine how businesses approach sales and marketing. Artificial intelligence has moved from a buzzword to a must-have asset for competitive teams. Organizations that fail to a...

From automating outreach to personalizing campaigns, these tools empower teams to work smarter and drive better results. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/top-ai-tools...

Highlighting the Winners of the December 2025 Google Cloud AI Hackathon On December 12th, alongside Google Cloud, we held an exciting 24-hour Hackathon! The Agentic AI Hackathon allowed participants to step into the future of technology by building applications that can t...

Here are some insights from the winners of the ODSC-Google Cloud Hackathon, including winning strategies and advice for prospective Hackathon attendees. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/highlighting...

AI and Creativity: Why Human Imagination Still Matters in an Algorithmic World For years, artificial intelligence has been framed as a technical discipline. Lines of code, neural networks, benchmarks, and optimization metrics dominate the conversation. Creativity, by contrast, i...

Explore why AI and creativity are inseparable, and how human imagination, judgment, and problem framing drive meaningful AI innovation beyond algorithms. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/ai-and-creat...

From AI Safety to Enterprise Scale: Meet the First Speakers of ODSC AI East 2026 The future of AI isn’t being imagined—it’s being built, deployed, governed, and stress-tested right now. At ODSC AI East 2026, we’re bringing together the people shaping that reality across research l...

Meet the first speakers of ODSC AI East 2026—leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Harvard, MIT, Databricks, Pfizer, and more shaping the future of applied, responsible, and enterprise-scale AI. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/from-ai-safe...

2026 AI Outlook: How Agents, Context, and Governance Will Shape Real-World AI As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, one thing has become increasingly clear: progress isn’t being driven by a single breakthrough, but by a convergence of architectural shifts, c...

ODSC AI Conference speakers share predictions on agentic systems, governance, multimodal AI, and building reliable production systems. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/2026-ai-outl...

Paco Nathan on Entity Resolution, Graphs, and the Future of Anti-Fraud AI The modern global economy runs on identity. Every transaction, account, organization, and asset depends on knowing who is who. When that knowledge breaks down, the consequences scale quickly, especial...

Paco Nathan explores how entity resolution and investigative graphs power real-world AI systems for fraud detection, financial crime, and human-centered analysis. #DataScience #ODSC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI opendatascience.com/paco-nathan-...

Emmett Shear on AI Alignment, Agency, and Raising a New Intelligence For much of the AI industry, alignment has become shorthand for control: making systems obey instructions, follow rules, and avoid harmful behavior. But this framing misses something fundamental. As E...

Emmett Shear explores AI alignment as a developmental capability, arguing that shared goals—not control—are the key to aligning advanced AI systems with humanity. #DataScience #ODSC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI opendatascience.com/emmett-shear...

Agent-Ready APIs: The Foundation of Scalable Agentic AI As agentic AI moves from experimentation into real-world systems, one foundational dependency is being stress-tested more than any other: APIs. Autonomous agents can reason, plan, and chain actions, b...

Agent-ready APIs are critical for scalable agentic AI. Learn how OpenAPI, MCP, and better API design enable autonomous agents to work reliably in production systems. #DataScience #ODSC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI opendatascience.com/agent-ready-...

How AI Helps Reduce False Alarms in Security Systems False alarms have been a persistent pain point in physical security. They burn time for monitoring teams, disrupt operations, and slowly erode confidence in the system. Traditional alarms excel at det...

Traditional alarms excel at detecting change, but they struggle to interpret context. AI fills that gap by learning patterns, correlating multiple signals, and making higher-quality decisions before escalating an alert. #ODSC #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/how-ai-helps...

Bristol Myers Squibb Partners With Microsoft to Advance AI-Driven Lung Cancer Detection Bristol Myers Squibb has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate the early detection of lung cancer using artificial intelligence. The partnership brings together Bristol Myer...

Bristol Myers Squibb partners with Microsoft to deploy FDA-cleared radiology AI for earlier lung cancer detection and cancer detection. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/bristol-myer...

Energy Costs Will Decide Which Countries Win the AI Race, Microsoft’s Nadella Says Energy costs will play a decisive role in determining which countries lead the global artificial intelligence race, according to Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft. Speaking at the World Econ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says energy costs will determine which countries win the AI race, shaping infrastructure investment and more. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/energy-costs...

Mastercard Moves to Set the Rules for Agentic Commerce With Google and Microsoft Mastercard is moving aggressively to define the rules of agentic commerce, positioning itself as the infrastructure layer beneath AI-driven shopping and payments. The payments giant is working closely...

Mastercard is positioning itself as the trust and payments layer for agentic commerce, partnering with Google and Microsoft. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/mastercard-m...

5 Machine Learning Techniques for Bot Detection When Protecting Sensitive Databases Sensitive databases, such as patient records in hospitals, credit card numbers in financial systems, and citizen data in government archives, are frequently targeted by cybercriminals. These attackers...

In this article, let’s look at five ML techniques that can help strengthen your bot protection and keep hackers out of your sensitive data assets. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/5-machine-le...

Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Iconic Phrase to Push Back Against AI Misuse Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has taken an unprecedented legal step to limit how artificial intelligence platforms use his likeness, trademarking both his image and voice to prevent unauthor...

Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice, including his iconic catchphrase, to curb unauthorised AI use. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/matthew-mcco...

Build AI Systems Without a CS Degree: The ODSC AI East 2026 Bootcamp Agentic AI systems are changing what’s possible for professionals without engineering backgrounds. Tasks that required hiring a developer, like pulling data from APIs, cleaning datasets, and bui...

ODSC AI East 2026 AI Bootcamp features eight weekly sessions that cover the technical concepts needed to work with AI systems confidently. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/build-ai-sys...

From RAG to AI Agent: A Step-By-Step Guide Editor’s note: Sara Zanzottera, Senior Developer at BNP Paribas, is a speaker for the Agentic AI Summit in January 2026. Check out her talk, From RAG to AI Agents, there! 2025 was the year of LL...

In this post, we will show you how you can extend your RAG pipelines step by step to become agents without having to throw away everything you've built so far. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/from-rag-to-...

Building AI Agents That Work in Production: Core Fundamentals for Junior Engineers AI agents built on large language models (LLMs) often look deceptively simple in demos. A clever prompt and a few tool integrations can produce impressive results, leading newer engineers to believe d...

Most AI agents fail outside demos. Learn how to build production-ready AI agents by mastering LLM limits, evaluation, state, guardrails, and system design. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/building-ai-...

AI Skills for Managers in 2026: 7 Essentials for Leading in an AI-Driven Organization In 2026, artificial intelligence has moved from a niche experiment to a central business driver. As AI becomes embedded in products, processes, and strategy, AI skills for managers are no longer optio...

AI is now a core management responsibility. Learn the 7 essential AI skills for managers in 2026, from cost and risk to evaluation, culture, and leadership. #ODSC #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence opendatascience.com/ai-skills-fo...