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Streaming highlights from Databricks Data + AI Summit

Join Tun Shwe and Jeremy Frenay as they stream live from the floor of the Databricks Data + AI Summit! They’ll break down the biggest announcements, key takeaways, and cutting-edge trends shaping the intersection of AI and data streaming. Register to get an insider look at the future of data AI streaming.

The Hidden Cost of AI Testing: Stop Burning LLM Tokens in Your CI/CD Pipeline

AI testing against live LLM APIs can quietly drive massive token costs across development, QA, and CI/CD pipelines. Every test execution consumes real tokens—at production rates—creating hidden, variable costs that scale with your AI adoption. In this video, discover how leading enterprises are eliminating LLM token spend using service virtualization. Learn how BlazeMeter intercepts API calls, simulates realistic AI responses (completions, embeddings, and large payloads), and enables full-scale testing without invoking live models.

Your AI Projects Need a Platform

In my younger days, eons ago in tech years, I worked on many enterprises IT projects or saw them up close. Failure rates of these projects were incredibly high. There was a mortgage system that was expected to be live in six months but ended up taking over five years and went live with a small fraction of the features originally planned. Many other projects never got out of the development phase.

Ep 78 | Mastering Enterprise AI: Why Some Projects Succeed While Others Fail

AI may be the most capable intern your organization has ever hired. However, interns still need guidance and clear direction. Enterprise AI is proving no different. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Michael Gray, CTO of Thrive, to explore the patterns and anti-patterns emerging from real-world enterprise AI deployments. Drawing on his experience helping organizations implement AI at scale, Michael offers a practical framework for evaluating AI maturity, helping leaders understand where adoption breaks down and what it takes to build momentum across the organization.

The internal war over who owns AI.

There is a massive boardroom fight happening right now over who gets to control AI. Should it be IT? A centralized lab? The executives? Boris Rabkin from Ligentia drops a truth bomb: AI belongs wherever value is actually created. If your AI strategy is locked inside an isolated corporate lab instead of in the hands of your product, engineering, and customer teams, it’s going to fail. Full episode out now!

Why your AI UX keeps breaking (and what to do about it)

I ran a webinar on this recently and had more to say than the time allowed, so this is the written version: the argument I was making, some context on the demo, and the questions that came up from people watching. The recording is below if you'd rather watch than read. The thesis: AI products are being let down by the user experience, not the model.

Vibe Coding Economically: Which Framework Is the Cheapest? (Rails vs Django vs Laravel)

Token costs used to be something most developers ignored. They simply dismissed them as theoretical. Now, they’re showing up in your Cursor/Claude Code bill, in every pasted error, in that package the AI pulled in without asking, or in that clarification round you didn’t plan for. Most developers choose a framework based on what they've used before, what the job description asks for, or simply whatever was used on their last project.