Physical AI’s ultimate goal: Self-learning factory robots

Deploying generative AI models to production requires finding the right combination of instance type, serving container with settings, and optimization strategy. This process typically requires a long iteration cycle of optimization and manual benchmarking. In April 2026, Amazon SageMaker AI launched this inference recommendations, so customers can programmatically get data-driven, production-ready configurations through APIs. This…

There are a lot of things that we have written about at Smart Data Collective since Ryan acquired the site 10 years ago. It is clear that cloud technology is becoming more important for companies that need safer, more organized, and more reliable IT asset recovery services. SentinelOne reports that ransomware attacks hit 78% of…

Your conversations live on someone else's server. Your memory is their asset. The thing forgets you when that's cheaper, changes under you, and you can't look inside it. I got tired of that and built an alternative. minima is a local, bring-your-own-key agentic chat. It runs on your machine, works your real files, and –…

What I find most corrosive is what it does to the CIO’s standing over time. Every initiative the CIO executes but did not shape reinforces a story about what the CIO is for. They become the person who runs the technology other people decided on. That is a fine description of an order taker and…

The Scope: This isn’t a benchmark pitting agent frameworks against each other, nor does it claim this controller is “smarter.” It claims something narrower and much more defensible: that failure isolation is a real, measurable architectural property. It’s a Pattern, Not a Product: Loop engineering is a control-flow pattern, not a specific framework. It’s the…

Replacing humans in jobs, violating privacy, creating autonomous weapons, becoming intelligent enough to act beyond human control: the apocalyptic ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) could go wrong are all too familiar. Something that is harder to envisage is a less gloomy alternative: a future in which AI harmoniously enhances human life. AI seems to…