Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf
Booking.com says it built AI tools it wishes it had bought off the shelf

“AI isn’t going to take your job. Somebody who embraces it and learns faster than you might. AI is not going to take away your customers. A company that uses it more smartly than you do might,” Booking.com chief business officer James Waters said. Book…

AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped
AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped

Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said. Amazon was then starting to invest heavily in agents. Sivasubramanian spoke on Wednesday at Hu…

Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m
Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m

Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on their own. Those companies then come to Lovable with thousands of apps and ask what to do, he said. Hedin, Lovable’s chief technology o…

Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids
Meta unveils $1,299 VR glasses and turns its AI glasses into hearing aids

Meta will sell VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams for $1,299.99 from spring 2027. It is also turning its AI glasses into over-the-counter hearing aids. Mark Zuckerberg announced both at Meta Connect on Wednesday. He also showed audio-only Ray-Ban gl…

Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did
Google DeepMind’s Ayoub says companies can fence AI in, like banks did

Companies cannot fully govern AI systems, but they can build a fixed fence around them, Google DeepMind’s Kareem Ayoub said. He pointed to banks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They put trading algorithms inside fixed rules they could check. Ayoub, …

OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI is stuck on deployment, not models
OpenAI’s Colin Jarvis says enterprise AI is stuck on deployment, not models

Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI’s head of forward deployed engineering said on Wednesday. In about 80% of cases, Colin Jarvis said, the problem is deployment. Companies do not yet know how to ro…

Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat
Zendesk and Sierra say AI agents should be paid per result, not per seat

Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier and Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor said on Wednesday that per-seat pricing for software is on its way out. They spoke at HumanX in Amsterdam. In separate sessions, both said customers should pay for AI agents only when the agent…

Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers
Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He also said micropayments from AI companies will never pay publishers enough. “The large language…

Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says
Wayve’s AI will reach Mercedes cars within two years, Kendall says

“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership …

Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival  
Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival  

On Sept. 12-13, NASA’s Johnson Space Center employees brought the excitement and wonder of space exploration to Houston’s Japan Festival at Hermann Park.  For more than 30 years, the festival has immersed guests in traditional Japanese culture through food, dance, martial arts, music, and more, Johnson has supported the festival as an exhibitor for the […]