prg.ai newsletter #62: Nine countries. One summit. And prg.ai was there, with a new boss

Some things have a clear plan from the very start.

Take over. Find a new director. Hand on the baton. That is exactly what I set out for myself in January, and what I completed a few days ago.

When Lukáš Kačena left at the beginning of the year to become Government Commissioner for AI, it was clear that my role would be a temporary one. The task was to find someone to lead prg.ai onwards. And that someone is now here.

Luděk Šafář has fitted in almost suspiciously well. He brings experience from business, technology, and public administration – all the fields that meet at prg.ai. He has led teams at multinational companies, helped develop Czech POINT, the country’s one-stop shop for public administration services, and social responsibility is no stranger to him either – anyone who does not know Good Sailors should put that right.

He joins us at a more than opportune moment: we are celebrating our seventh birthday, new colleagues are sitting in the office, another prg.ai Minor is starting, and this year’s AI Days and AI Awards are already knocking at the door. The new director has a great deal of work ahead of him, but I know from my own experience that it is work that rewards the effort.

Luďku, I am looking forward to your ideas, and I will be cheering you on from the front row.

By which I mean the desk right next to yours.

Lenka Kučerová
as of now, the former director of prg.ai

 

Inside prg.ai

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Luděk Šafář is prg.ai’s new director

As trailed in the editorial, Luděk Šafář took over as the new director on 1 September. He joins prg.ai from SAS, where he had led the Central European team of data analytics experts since 2021. Before that he spent thirteen years in leadership roles at Dell Technologies, and he also left his mark at Microsoft, SUSE, and Novell. He is a co-founder of Good Sailors, a social enterprise that employs people with disabilities in digital services.

„I would like prg.ai to become an even stronger player that academia, companies, and of course Prague and its residents can rely on,“ says Šafář. He succeeds Lenka Kučerová, who led the association as interim director from February and will continue to work there on community and partnerships. On behalf of the Czech National AI Platform (CNAIP), she will also go on developing the Czech AI Map.

Nominations for this year’s AI Awards are open

CNAIP is collecting nominations for this year’s AI Awards until the end of September. Across six categories, the awards recognise the individuals, teams, companies, and organisations whose work is moving the Czech AI scene forward, whether in business, science, public administration, the non-profit sector, or education. You can nominate colleagues, partners, interesting projects – or indeed yourself. An expert jury will select the winners, and the prizes will be presented at a gala evening in Prague on 2 December.

Help us find and reward the best of the Czech AI ecosystem. Filling in the nomination form takes only a few minutes.

AI Horizons 2026 is almost here

The AI Horizons 2026 conference is fast approaching. On 23 and 24 September, the Cubex centre in Prague brings together people who deal with AI in live operations rather than in slide decks. The Czech National AI Platform has prepared a separate stage devoted entirely to public administration. On it, DataSentics will open up for the first time in public their work on building Serbia’s national AI centre, and Lukáš Kačena will follow with a look at how national AI infrastructure is being approached here at home. A panel on labelling AI in chatbots and voicebots puts the regulator alongside a concrete deployment in Prague 6. Microsoft, AWS, Google, and ČRA will go head to head over cloud, on-prem, data sovereignty, and vendor lock-in. And the afternoon belongs to a new format of friendly duels: two takes on one topic, first from the supplier side, then in the vendor–client relationship.

As a newsletter subscriber you can use the discount code CNAIP15 to get 15% off your ticket. Public administration representatives can take advantage of reduced admission of CZK 980 for the conference day on 24 September and CZK 2,580 for both days – email us if that applies to you.

Seznam.cz becomes prg.ai’s partner

The Czech internet’s number one is joining our roster of partners. Seznam.cz, the search engine and portal that has been the home-grown rival to Google in Czechia for thirty years, has built its own technology throughout that time, and it has used machine learning ever since it launched its own full-text search. Today it has more than a hundred models in production for all kinds of purposes.

These technologies are developed by an in-house team of researchers, which produced both the generative language model SeLLMa and Seznam AI – an assistant that opens up services across Seznam to people in everyday language. The combination of in-house research, extensive data, and products used every day by millions of people is a rare one in the Czech setting. That makes it all the more valuable that Seznam is bringing this experience to our organisation.

And that is not all: the law firm Ambit is with us too

Alongside excellent developers, the Czech AI scene also needs someone to guide it through the law. So we are welcoming among our partners Ambit as well, a Prague law firm specialising in technology companies and start-ups. „We decided to work with prg.ai because we want to contribute actively to creating an environment in which artificial intelligence develops responsibly and in line with the law,“ says Jaroslav Menčík, who heads Ambit’s IT and technology team.

The Czech AI scene in Berlin

We travelled to Berlin for the Gitex AI Europe trade fair with a Czech delegation led by Government Commissioner for AI Lukáš Kačena. In the Czech national pavilion we jointly presented the best of what our AI scene has to offer. During the innovation hour we showcased the strength of the Czech AI ecosystem, and Filip Hartmann introduced our association and the ways in which we connect research, business, and public administration.

Bruce Schneier in Prague

At the end of June, the Harvard security technologist and author of more than a dozen books Bruce Schneier came to Prague. At a talk we organised together with the company AISLE, he opened up questions of a proactive approach to security, responsible software development, AI regulation, and the fight against cyberattacks. In the interview Bruce gave us, we picked up that discussion and also looked at trust in artificial intelligence, people’s relationship with new technologies, democracy and power, and the development of new systems in Europe and the Czech Republic.

So what decides whether we can trust AI?

Trust in AI was not a topic for Bruce Schneier alone – it was also the focus of the CZDEMOS4AI conference, which we held at Kampus Hybernská under the expert guidance of the Institute of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Four working groups presented prototype tools for supporting the teaching of history in schools, fighting disinformation, identifying the risks of digital addiction, and a legal and methodological framework for responsible AI. In every case the same thing emerged: without transparency, traceable sources, and expert oversight, trustworthy AI cannot exist. Read more in our article.

And what should the state do about AI in the classroom?

An equally important question was put in June by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to those able to answer it. The first workshop on the national strategy for AI in education brought together people who do not usually sit around the same table – from research, professional practice, and the civil service – to prepare a set of recommendations on how the ministry should proceed in this area. We are pleased to have contributed too: the day-long discussion was moderated by our own Pavlína Slavíčková.

AI in the steel heart of the country

You will not meet the prg.ai team only in Prague. On Tuesday 15 September we are heading to the CERNA.AI festival, which will bring more than 20 workshops and a hundred speakers from technology, business, and the arts to seven stages. Among them are the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU), Government Commissioner for AI Lukáš Kačena, and CEE AI Ambassador Jan Kavalírek – and you are sure to run into our new director Luděk Šafář as well. The event is organised by the AI innovation and education platform of Černá kostka (the Black Cube), the future regional library of the Moravian-Silesian Region.

 

Big Picture

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Nine countries. One declaration. And Prague at the centre of it all.

The first ever CEE AI Summit has wrapped up. Government representatives, researchers, and entrepreneurs from more than twenty European countries came to Prague to sketch out a shared direction for Central European AI.

The result? The Prague Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, signed by Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Romania. Shared infrastructure, exchange of experience, coordination of European AI policy. And also concrete cooperation between Czechia and the V4 countries on sharing the capacity of a potential Czech AI gigafactory.

Organised jointly by Poland’s AI Chamber and the Czech National AI Platform – represented at the event by prg.ai – the summit drew 250 participants in all, among them Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček, European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, EU AI Office Director Lucilla Sioli, CTU Rector Michal Pěchouček, and the entrepreneur Tomáš Čupr.

A gathering of this kind did not go unnoticed. Media at home and abroad reported on the summit, the Prague Declaration, and cooperation on AI gigafactories. The main message? Central and Eastern Europe does not want to be a mere consumer of AI – it wants to be a place where AI is developed and scaled.

And the Prague summit has given that a decent foundation.

 

Research Radar

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The first Czech in the leadership of European AI

Prof Roman Barták of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University has been elected to the board of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), giving Czechia representation in the association’s leadership for the very first time. Prof Barták’s research covers automated planning, knowledge representation, machine learning, and robotics; he is both an AAAI Fellow and a EurAI Fellow, and the first European to receive Florida’s Douglas D. Dankel II Award. We are delighted that it is his voice that will give the Czech Republic an active say in the future direction of European AI.

A prestigious award for Professor Matas

Prof Jiří Matas of the Department of Cybernetics at FEE CTU received the King-Sun Fu Prize at the ICPR conference in Lyon. The IAPR awards it every two years for key contributions to geometric computer vision. Prof Matas has worked on the subject for almost forty years and leads the faculty’s Visual Recognition Group. His results, from the RANSAC method to object tracking in video, are used, for example, in building 3D models from images, in autonomous vehicles, in drones, and in film post-production.

And it is not only professors scoring points…

PANSim, a tool created by Erol Medenčević of FEE CTU as part of his bachelor’s thesis, won the Best Demonstration Award at the ICAPS 2026 conference in Dublin. It shows the decision-making of planning agents that, in the role of an animated frog, have to cross a pond with randomly disappearing lily pads and collect gold coins along the way. The tool lets developers see how an agent copes with a changing environment. Medenčević is developing it further during his master’s studies, with the aim of creating an environment for visualising a whole range of planning tasks.

Vaněk, or There and Back Again

Ondřej Vaněk is the new Chief AI Officer at CTU. He once started out at the university as an artificial intelligence researcher, but has spent the last thirteen years in business – he co-founded Blindspot AI, a long-standing corporate member of prg.ai, and led AI teams at Adastra Group. It is Rector Michal Pěchouček who has now brought him back to Dejvice. He has work ahead of him across the whole university: making sure the academic community has top-class AI tools at its disposal, connecting AI experts with researchers from other fields, and looking for new forms of teaching.

A robot as a route to understanding the infant brain

How does a small child learn that moving its arm can change the world around it? And what is happening in its brain while it does? An international team of scientists from FEE CTU, Universität Hamburg, and Université Paris Cité looked for answers with the help of the humanoid robot iCub. The results of the experiments, which offer a new perspective on the mechanisms of early learning, have now been published by Science Robotics, the most prestigious scientific journal in robotics.

FIT researchers solved a problem that even AI could not crack

Researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology at CTU in Prague have chalked up a significant success. Of the hundred demanding mathematical problems set as part of an international benchmark test in Leipzig, AI failed on only two. And one of those two unconquered problems was finally solved by a team of researchers from the Department of Theoretical Computer Science.

A drone that does as it is told

The Czech team F4F & CTU SkyGraph succeeded in the final of the Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 competition run by SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation. Against seven European teams, it demonstrated a system that can take an instruction phrased in ordinary human speech, turn it into a flight plan, and carry it out without GPS or manual control. The tasks simulated real uses such as a delivery service or a security control room. It was in the „find and help an injured person“ task that the Czech team came first. The fourteen-month competition had a budget of more than €5 million, and each of the finalist teams received €500,000 to develop its system.

Memory full? Never mind

Another prestigious ERC Starting Grant is heading to Matfyz. It has gone to Dr Ian William Mertz of the Computer Science Institute of Charles University for his project STRAPS: Synthesizing Traditional and Reuse Approaches to Space. It tackles a question that goes against established wisdom: can computers use memory that is already full of data to carry out tasks? Dr Mertz shows that the answer is more complicated than it might seem in an interview for the Charles University magazine Forum.

Graphs against Parkinson’s

KG-Microbe, a new tool presented by leading US research institutions with a contribution from the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at the Prague University of Economics and Business (FIS VŠE), unifies complex microbiological data into modular, AI-ready knowledge graphs. By integrating a wealth of information from genetics through to cellular metabolism, it opens the way to advanced machine learning models. The system is already helping to investigate the influence of the microbiome on inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease, and to predict how bacteria behave in different environments. The results of the collaboration have been published by the prestigious journal GigaScience.

A table made out of videos and images

How do you turn unstructured data such as texts, images, or videos into a comprehensible table? A team from FIS VŠE has the answer with their new application and Python library, LLM Features. Do give it a try – it can convert any multimedia data into tabular form, which opens the way to downstream learning using algorithms based on more than just explainable rules.

What score will your paper get?

Want to prepare your academic texts as well as possible for demanding peer review? Another application from FIS VŠE is called Research Score. The tool lets you upload a PDF of an academic paper and scores it automatically against a range of criteria. It gives authors specific recommendations for improvement straight away, while for supervisors and editorial teams it can save considerable time in assessment or in pre-screening for potential ethical problems.

Six Czech researchers at an international conference in Denver

Researchers from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU) – among them Torsten Sattler, Patrik Beliansky, Tomáš Pajdla, Josef Šivic, Martin Cífka, and Anna Šárová Mikeštíková – presented their findings at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, one of the world’s most important conferences in computer vision. You can read what they talked about on the CIIRC website.

 

AI in Action

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The AI Act at your fingertips

The law firm Ambit has published a comprehensive guide, AI Act v praxi (The AI Act in Practice). On Sunday 2 August 2026, most of the AI Act’s provisions took effect for every company that works with artificial intelligence. The guide covers the full breadth of the obligations, from prohibited practices through the classification of AI systems and transparency requirements to a practical six-step compliance process. Its author is Ambit partner Jaroslav Menčík. If you want to be clear about where your company stands in relation to the AI Act, do download the guide.

From Národní třída to Wall Street

They once taught AI to beat poker champions; now the founders of Equilibre have returned from Google DeepMind to Prague to build game-theory-based models that trade billions of dollars a day on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. The start-up raised the largest pre-seed investment in Czech history, worth $6 million, and in its latest funding round it reports money that should push its valuation as high as half a billion dollars.

A new face in sports journalism

Livesport has introduced a virtual presenter, Aila, who speaks dozens of languages and will guide users around the world through sports news. She took more than a year to create, in collaboration with the Fameplay studio – her movements, facial expressions, and gestures were provided by a real actress, but the face does not belong to any particular person. That lets Livesport deploy her in any market without the risk of legal disputes. Aila will not replace the sports newsroom or the studio, only extend what her human colleagues can do.

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade to back AI projects with CZK 630 million

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade will divide the sum between forty projects selected in the TWIST programme competition, all of them focused on developing and using AI in companies. Projects from our members were among those that succeeded – Brainio, a platform for collaboration between people and artificial intelligence from APOCO, and the distillation of knowledge from large language models for on-premise and edge use from MAMA AI.

A supercomputer on the faculty roof

Something without parallel in the academic world of Central and Eastern Europe has appeared on the roof of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana (UL FRI): FRIDA, a modular container supercomputing centre that brings together GPU accelerators from several different generations under one roof. The Czech company M Computers supplied this infrastructure’s technological pinnacle: NVIDIA DGX B200 and DGX B300 systems with the revolutionary Blackwell architecture.

Ten times more tools for agents

Apify, working with Coinbase, has made more than 20,000 Actors available through the x402 payment protocol. That increases the range of tools autonomous agents can buy for themselves roughly tenfold, up from the original 2,000 endpoints. Agents pay in USDC on the Base network, with no account and no API key. Jan Čurn talks about it at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.

Bull expands its supercomputer factory

The Bull group, which includes our member DataSentics, is expanding its supercomputer factory in Angers, France, from 7,800 to more than 12,000 square metres, creating around a hundred skilled jobs. Under a partnership with Foxconn, the refurbished plant will also be used to assemble and test components for AI infrastructure. It is due to open at the end of 2026. Read more on their website.

Meet Maia

Make has introduced Maia, a conversational assistant built directly into its scenario builder. You describe in plain language what the automation or agent should do, and Maia builds it for you step by step – picking the relevant modules, connecting them, and asking follow-up questions. It is available without limits to all users on paid plans, and for thirty days on a free account.

The Vltava as the border between Slavia and Sparta

The football rivalry between Slavia and Sparta is clearly reflected in the map of Prague. A study by the Faculty of Science at Charles University, based on anonymised and aggregated mobile data from the operator O2, shows that the Vltava still works as a symbolic boundary between the two clubs’ fans. Sparta is stronger above all in the north and west of the city, Slavia in the south-east of Prague and around Eden.

Recombee brings in A/B testing

Recombee has added A/B testing to its platform. Teams can now compare different content recommendation strategies before rolling them out to all users. They can also measure the impact on click-through rates, conversions, watch time, and revenue by tracking user behaviour.

 

Save the Date

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AI Days – Tested on Humans

That is the theme of the fifth AI Days, running from 2 to 15 November in all fourteen regions of the Czech Republic. Rather than what artificial intelligence might one day be able to do, the programme focuses on how it is already affecting the human psyche, how it is transforming professions, and what threats it brings with it. We have just launched a new website, and we are finalising the programme, which you will find there shortly.

Prague to host the world’s best in computer systems

From 29 September to 2 October, the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague hosts SOSP 26, the world’s leading forum for researchers, developers, programmers, and educators in computer systems. The programme features 62 papers and 13 workshops. You will find a link to the registration form on the CIIRC CTU website.

AI HotSpot: how to build an Autonomous Enterprise

The AI HotSpot conference returns on 15 October 2026 to the DOX+ hall in Prague 7, this year with a central theme: building the Autonomous Enterprise. The programme includes case studies, hands-on workshops, and live demos. You will learn what successful corporate AI leaders do differently, when agentic AI makes sense, and what the road from individual use cases to an autonomous company looks like.

 

Read, Seen & Heard

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Pěchouček’s Magnificent Seven

That is what Forbes called the new faces that CTU Rector Michal Pěchouček has brought to the university, or to the support of its research. The Fund for the Future and the Interdisciplinary Near Future Challenge grant programme received CZK 30 million from, among others, Simona Kijonková’s foundation, Jan Barta and the investment group Pale Fire Capital, the Credo Foundation, the Wood & Company endowment fund, and IOCB Tech Group. Lucie Brešová and Sintija Meissner have joined the university’s leadership. You can read the full article on Forbes.

Let’s focus on generating revenue rather than making savings, says Mastník

Most larger Czech companies are already dealing with AI, but they tend to use it to cut costs. According to Miloš Mastník, CEO of České Radiokomunikace, that is a shame – he sees the opportunity on the revenue side and in sales, for instance in faster interaction with customers or automatic minutes from meetings. In an interview for the Czech business daily Hospodářské noviny, he describes where he sees the most practical use cases for artificial intelligence and how construction of the Zbraslav data centre is progressing.

From botched job to perfect forgery in two years

In 2024, AI could not spell a single word correctly on a generated receipt. Today more than ten models can produce a document you cannot tell from a real one with the naked eye. A video from Resistant AI traces that journey step by step – from DALL·E 3’s scattered text to today’s near-perfect forgeries.

AI adoption in companies is getting stuck

Petr Zelenka, who took over the leadership of Blindspot AI this year and is also CAIO at Adastra, spoke on a similar theme to Miloš Mastník on the Ranní Brífink podcast. He points out where AI adoption in companies most often gets stuck, and why he thinks companies have fixated on ChatGPT at the expense of technologies that pay off faster.

Can you tell you are chatting with an AI?

Since 2 August, under the AI Act, it has to be obvious to every visitor to your website – with fines of up to €15 million or three per cent of global turnover for breaches. How are Czech retailers doing? Both Alza and GymBeam label their assistants as AI; elsewhere you may come across the phrase „virtual assistant“. Jaroslav Menčík of the law firm Ambit explains in an article for WIRED why that may not be enough, and why responsibility lies with the technology supplier rather than the e-shop itself.

ChatGPT for amino acids

What happens when you apply the principles behind ChatGPT to chains of amino acids? Doctoral student Vít Škrhák explains in an interview for Matfyz.cz why machine learning models sometimes behave like black boxes, and what changes when biological research is cut from years in the laboratory to minutes on a supercomputer.

Who will teach computer science?

A new episode of Jedničky a Nuly (Ones and Zeros), the podcast made by FIT CTU, asks why teaching computer science matters more today than ever. You can listen at fit.cvut.cz/podcast or in the Spotify and Apple Podcasts apps.

What changed when AI started acting

AI agents have changed the security debate, because they turn model outputs into concrete actions. They can load a URL, install a package, edit a file, connect to a service, or call an API, often using the user’s credentials and local access. According to Gen’s new Threat Report H1 2026, agent security is therefore closer to endpoint and identity management than to traditional chatbot safety.

Elections are coming

Ahead of the municipal elections, the lead candidates of Prague’s party lists sat down together at the Praha Inovační debate organised by the Czech Startup Association. Our partners were given a voice for the sector too – Jan Čurn of Apify, Tomáš Ditrych of Ambit, and Jakub Nešetřil of CTU. The discussion covered why technology companies grow in Prague despite the city rather than because of it, and whether the capital will ever get a Prague innovation centre. The recording is on YouTube.

How Heureka is making real money thanks to AI

David Chmelař describes in an interview for WIRED how Heureka continues to consolidate its strong position, precisely thanks to the AI boom. As the volume of generated content grows, the overall trustworthiness of the internet falls, which increases the value of established, verified platforms.

How to survive the chip crisis

The wait for AI hardware can be as long as six months. How do you build effective infrastructure and survive the chip crisis? Read an interview with Martin Petr, sales manager at M Computers, on what is currently happening in the AI hardware market.

Which accelerator for LLMs?

Every year, companies come out with new and distinctive accelerators and HPC solutions that bring major leaps in the development, research, and production of LLMs, generative AI, and demanding scientific computing. M Computers has summarised for you the most significant of them for 2026, comparing their individual parameters and performance and setting out their key features.

 

Learning Curve

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Czech medals at the AI Olympiad in Astana

The Czech national AI team brought back two medals from its first appearance at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence. In Astana, Kazakhstan, Jan Herza took silver and Patrik Řezníček bronze, against 440 competitors from 95 countries. The team emerged from the first Czech AI Olympiad, run by the Nvias association, whose national round attracted more than 540 students from 114 schools across eleven regions.

Do you know an academic across the Atlantic?

Applications are open for the Fulbright-CTU Distinguished Scholar Award, which allows experienced American researchers to spend a semester or two at CTU. They will try their hand at teaching, supervising students, and collaborating on research in fields from computer science and engineering through mathematics and physics to architecture and environmental science. The monthly stipend is $6,000 and applications close on 15 September. If you have a colleague in the US who might like the offer, send them this link.

When school students not only use AI but build it

In the last newsletter we wrote that participants in the applied AI summer school at FIT CTU would take away not just a certificate for the drawer but a working AI tool. And so it proved – in a single week, eight prototypes were created, using AI to solve practical problems in education, communication, investing, fact-checking, and software development. FIT describes exactly what the secondary school students built on its website.

Is an electric car worth it for you?

That is precisely the question a team of FIT CTU graduates set out to answer at the international GreenHack 2026 hackathon. Their app, which recommends suitable charging points based on a user’s everyday journeys and evaluates the time and financial implications of switching to an electric car, took third place among 23 teams from across Europe.

AI that leaves attackers scratching their heads

How can organisations detect, delay, and confuse attackers who have already got into their network? That is the challenge addressed by Decor, a project by doctoral student Muris Sladić and Dr Sebastian Garcia of the Stratosphere Lab, a research group at the AI Center of FEE CTU. Decor uses AI and the principles of cyber deception, providing earlier insight into attackers’ activity and more time to respond. The project won the Get Spin-off/Start-up Ready! programme, which helps students and researchers turn research ideas into future start-ups and spin-offs. Read more about it.

A Prague–Taiwan double degree

FEE CTU in Prague and the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) have formally confirmed the continuation of their academic alliance. FEE Dean Prof Petr Páta and Prof Jenq-Shiou Leu, Dean of NTUST’s College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, signed an extension of the memorandum of cooperation, which opens up the option of studying in a double degree programme.

 

Wanted

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And one last thing…

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The Interdisciplinary Center for Humanoid Robotics (ICHR), whose founding we wrote about in April, has started a blog. It is worth following.

Apify is holding its first ever conference, Run, in San Francisco on 10 November. The programme has a single track, keynotes, live demos, and access to the platform team. The early bird ticket at $299 is valid until the end of September, and you can register on the event website.

In a new video, Resistant AI shows how its tools can be used by insurers, credit providers, risk management, and compliance teams – from assessing an applicant’s documents to tracking fraud patterns across a portfolio. You can read here how lenders use these tools to approve more loans safely.