Towards Data Science
Jun 17
Your Churn Threshold Is a Pricing Decision
How unit economics should set your classification cutoff, and why they rarely do. The post Your Churn Threshold Is a Pricing Decision appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The Threshold Is a Price, Not a Percentage
How to decide when an AI agent should act on its own by using cost asymmetry instead of a fixed confidence cutoff The post The Threshold Is a Price, Not a Percentage appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jun 3
What AI Agents Should Never Do on Their Own
How to set the rules that keep agents effective and out of trouble The post What AI Agents Should Never Do on Their Own appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Towards Data Science
Jun 27
We Built a Routing Layer to Cut Our AI Costs. It Broke the Product.
A team cut their AI inference bill by more than half. Three months later, customer satisfaction was dropping and the cost savings were tied to the quality loss.
arXiv AI
Jul 20
Harmonizing AI Safety Thresholds
arXiv:2607. 16112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI companies have published capability thresholds that differ substantially, making it difficult for third parties to verify whether a threshold has been crossed or to compare requirements across companies.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8
Unequal Uncertainty: Rethinking Algorithmic Interventions for Mitigating Discrimination from AI
arXiv:2508. 07872v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Uncertainty in artificial intelligence (AI) predictions raises pressing legal and ethical questions for AI-assisted decision-making.
Towards Data Science
Jul 10
The Big Con of Agentic AI
What our over-dependence on external consulting teaches us about delegating our minds to machines The post The Big Con of Agentic AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
OpenAI Blog
Feb 27
Scaling AI for everyone
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
When Agent Automation Becomes Profitable: Quantifying and Insuring Autonomous AI Risk through Trace-Economic Underwriting
arXiv:2606. 16465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now take irreversible actions in operational systems, but agent-caused losses are still not clearly assigned, priced, or transferred.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
Overview of Risk Assessment and Management for Intelligent Systems under the AI Act and Beyond
arXiv:2607. 02197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The society and emerging risk-based regulatory frameworks for AI underscore the need for rigorous risk assessment to ensure safe and reliable AI systems.
Towards Data Science
Aug 11
Stop Calling the First Significant Day a Win
Checking an A/B test until it crosses p < 0. 05 can turn a nominal 5 percent false-positive rate into almost 28 percent.
Towards Data Science
Jul 23
Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower
The hidden cost of asynchronous systems, how tiny CPU tasks quietly became our biggest bottleneck while scaling hundreds of LLM agents. The post Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Towards Data Science
Jun 7
We Should Train AI to Betray Its Users
Because the alternative is much too dangerous The post We Should Train AI to Betray Its Users appeared first on Towards Data Science .