Embodied AI: A Cognitive Shift, Not a Cosmetic Change by Mohammad Soltaniehha, PhD

Embodied AI: A Cognitive Shift, Not a Cosmetic Change by Mohammad Soltaniehha, PhD

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Embodied AI: A Cognitive Shift, Not a Cosmetic Change by Mohammad Soltaniehha, PhD

When AI systems gain voice, presence, or physical representation, they don’t just change what the system can do. They change what humans do. People instinctively apply social rules to agents that project presence, hesitating to interrupt an avatar mid-sentence, lowering their voice when speaking to a voice agent, or placing trust in a system simply because it has a face and a voice. To the human brain, embodiment is not a design choice. It is a cognitive switch, one that restructures how users perceive, trust, and behave toward AI in ways that are automatic, measurable, and often irrational.

This keynote explores the intersection of cognitive science and system architecture, covering why embodiment hacks human cognition and the engineering realities required to support it, including the real-world trade-offs among latency, multimodal integration, and model intelligence. The session includes a live technical walkthrough of building real-time voice and avatar agents using open-source tools and APIs, along with an analysis of embodiment’s failure modes: uncanny discomfort, overtrust, and ethical risk, and how to catch them before production. Whether you are choosing between text, voice, or a full avatar, you will leave with a new mental model for embodiment and the technical clarity to decide when to use it, when to avoid it, and how to build it right.

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What’s New in SAP Analytics Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q2 2026

What's New in SAP Analytics Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q2 2026

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What's New in SAP Analytics Cloud | Deep Dive with Product Experts | Q2 2026

Explore the latest SAP Analytics Cloud Q2 2026 release highlights across planning, analytics, data modeling, stories, and Microsoft Office integration.

In this quarterly release highlights video, SAP Analytics Cloud product experts walk through new and enhanced capabilities designed to help teams plan with more flexibility, analyze data more intuitively, and build better reporting experiences. You’ll see updates for Smart Insights on SAP Datasphere models, Job Monitor enhancements for data export API and delta calculation jobs, and new enterprise planning capabilities including advanced formulas, data locking, multi actions, plan auditing, and planning API improvements.

The demos also cover Microsoft Office add-in updates, story design enhancements, asymmetric reporting, totals for blended tables and charts, Microsoft Teams delivery for My Metrics, and expanded support for composites in SAP Analytics Cloud. Whether you’re a planner, analyst, story designer, administrator, or developer, this release gives you more ways to work with connected data, streamline workflows, and create dynamic planning and analytics experiences.

Explore the full SAP Analytics Cloud release highlights:
https://www.sap.com/products/data-cloud/cloud-analytics/features/release-highlights.html

Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:26 – AI for Planning and Analytics
00:31 – Smart Insights on SAP Datasphere
01:35 – Data Modeling
01:41 – Job Monitor
07:30 – Enterprise Planning
07:35 – Advanced Formulas for Non-Year Granularity
09:38 – Data Locking for Up to Six Dimensions
10:46 – Multi Actions with SAP Datasphere Task Chains
11:46 – Plan Auditing Data Purge Updates
12:23 – Plan Entry Upload Event Enhancements
14:07 – Planning API Enhancements
17:34 – Plan Process Management
20:03 – Inverse Formula Entry Support
22:08 – Microsoft Office Add-In
22:13 – Excel Integration Updates
25:36 – Story Design
25:41 – Story Design Enhancements
39:35 – Measure Input Controls in Restricted Calculations
41:40 – Asymmetric Reporting
48:24 – Totals for Blended Tables and Charts
50:29 – My Metrics in Microsoft Teams
52:48 – Story Extensibility
52:53 – Interface Properties in Composite Calculations
57:06 – Composites in Light Viewer
58:02 – Version Support for Composite Artifacts
1:02:12 – SAP-Delivered Intelligent Content
1:04:00 – Outro

For more on SAP Analytics Cloud, check out our release highlights page: https://www.sap.com/products/data-cloud/cloud-analytics/features/release-highlights.html

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Will WWDC26 be Apple’s AI Do-Over?

Will WWDC26 be Apple's AI Do-Over?

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Will WWDC26 be Apple's AI Do-Over?

After the 2024 product delays, Apple will seek to unveil its AI plans at WWDC26 for a planned fall release. But what about the AI features that were pushed back? With a new deal with Google and a reorganized team, what’s Apple’s vision for AI integration? #AppleAI #TechNews #ProductLaunch #AIIntegration #FutureTech

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Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era – Brendan Burns

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Brendan Burns

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Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era - Brendan Burns

Join us at the premier vendor-neutral open source conference, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology. Learn more at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/

Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era – Brendan Burns, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform & Co-Founder, Kubernetes Open Source Project

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How to Create an LLM Dataset | FineWeb Overview

How to Create an LLM Dataset | FineWeb Overview

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How to Create an LLM Dataset | FineWeb Overview

A deep dive into how Hugging Face created the FineWeb dataset: starting from Common Crawl snapshots, extracting high-quality text from raw web data, filtering noisy content, deduplicating at web scale, and building FineWeb-Edu with model-assisted educational quality filtering.


🔗 Links
– FineWeb dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb
– FineWeb-Edu dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu
– FineWeb paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17557
– FineWeb blog post: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1
– Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org/
– Trafilatura: https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/


👋 Connect with me
– My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/
– X (Twitter): https://x.com/_alejandroao
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-ao/


🤓 Topics Covered
– FineWeb dataset creation pipeline
– Common Crawl filtering and deduplication
– FineWeb-Edu educational data filtering


⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Why FineWeb matters
02:58 Common Crawl as data source
06:10 Base filtering techniques
07:17 Deduplication within snapshots
13:05 C4-style quality filters
17:20 FineWeb-Edu extraction
21:41 Key lessons learned
24:21 Synthetic data on the web
28:39 Conclusion

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How Community Driven Platforms Enable the Next Generation of Data, Sergey Pronin #FOSSASIASummit2026

How Community Driven Platforms Enable the Next Generation of Data, Sergey Pronin #FOSSASIASummit2026

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How Community Driven Platforms Enable the Next Generation of Data, Sergey Pronin #FOSSASIASummit2026

Specialized databases like vector, graph, and time-series systems drive innovation—but relying on proprietary managed services often leads to high costs, compliance challenges, and vendor lock-in.

This talk introduces **OpenEverest**, an open source platform built on Kubernetes and CRDs that provides a unified way to manage diverse database engines—from PostgreSQL to modern NoSQL systems. Instead of fragmented tools and cloud-specific services, OpenEverest offers a single control plane for open source databases.

Learn how platform teams can reduce cloud dependency, strengthen data sovereignty, and simplify database operations while embracing the flexibility of the open source data ecosystem. Perfect for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers managing modern data infrastructure.

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org

#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIASummit #opensource #FOSS #Database

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Join Co-Chair Sonali Srivastava in Mumbai for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

Join Co-Chair Sonali Srivastava in Mumbai for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

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Join Co-Chair Sonali Srivastava in Mumbai for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

AI, security, and open source mentorship. Join co-chair Sonali Srivastava in Mumbai for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India. Get ready for hands-on demos, community booths, and everything you need to level up your GitOps pipeline.

Link in bio to check out the schedule!

#KubeCon #CloudNative #OpenSource

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LLM Answers DEPEND on Context, Not Just Power!

LLM Answers DEPEND on Context, Not Just Power!

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LLM Answers DEPEND on Context, Not Just Power!

The effectiveness of LLMs, and the reason for the rise of agents, is tied to the context they receive, not just their inherent power.

Want to learn more about AI in person? Check out ODSC AI West 2026, coming to Burlingame this October 27th-29th: https://hubs.li/Q04cYsmk0

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSCAI

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