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Can an EEG Decoder Answer a Question it Was Never Trained on?

A language interface made new questions expressible. Answering them was a separate learning problem.

ChatGPT’s Next Evolution: 7 Changes That Could Redefine Conversational AI

The next big shift in conversational AI may not be better answers, but what happens after you ask a question.Continue reading on Towards AI »

AI Decision Models: What They Are and How They Work

Decision models are a new category of AI that specializes in making typed and calibrated decisions, rather than generating text. In this…Continue reading on Towards AI »

Building a Production-Grade Dimensional Model on Snowflake with Cortex Code using Skills

How I designed, audited, and expanded an e-commerce star schema using an AI-powered skill — and what I learned about letting the machine enforce Kimball principles.

How Did I Write My First FlashAttention Kernel in CUDA ?

From demystifying the online softmax trick to hitting a 41.6x speedup on an NVIDIA RTX 4050 GPU — a beginner’s hands-on journey into hardware-aware deep learning.

The Context Bleed: Why LLMs Fail at Patient Privacy

The Context Bleed: Why LLMs Fail at Patient Privacy When multi-tenant agent runtimes share memory buffers across concurrent clinic sessions, a routine ear infection summary leaks another patient’s …

Zero Trust Architecture for MCP

[Playbook] Zero Trust Architecture for MCP An engineering blueprint for implementing On-Behalf-Of OAuth 2.1 and SPIFFE workload identity. Cover visual featuring a physical Causal Interaction studio …

Meta Muse Code Wants Your Repo More Than Your Money

Did you know Meta doesn’t just want to build the next AI model? It wants to replace your programming assistant too.Continue reading on Towards AI »

Microsoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Feature Whose Entire Job Is Not Trusting the Agent

Microsoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Feature Whose Entire Job Is Not Trusting the Agent Copilot Studio’s new “Hooks” are a quiet admission that agent judgment cannot be trusted with anything that …

Which AI Model Is Best for Web Design? 5 Picks for 2026

Leaderboard rankings, prices and one honest limit for each model, plus a simple three-prompt test you can run yourself.Continue reading on Towards AI »

OpenAI Decisions API Rollout: Build Fast AI Routing Without Letting It Make the Final Call

OpenAI Decisions API Rollout: Build Fast AI Routing Without Letting It Make the Final Call A practical way to use bounded AI decisions for routing and triage — while keeping authority, policy, and …

GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast: Build Coding Agent Workflows That Stay Fast and Steerable

GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast: Build Coding Agent Workflows That Stay Fast and Steerable A faster model does not automatically create a faster engineering team. The useful upgrade is an agent loop that can …

Claude Haiku 5.5 Work Queues: Design High-Volume AI Pipelines That Know When to Stop

Claude Haiku 5.5 Work Queues: Design High-Volume AI Pipelines That Know When to Stop Fast AI workers are valuable only when their boundaries are clear. Here is a practical queue pattern for letting a …

The Evolution of Fine-Tuning: From Retraining Everything to Rewarding Correctness

Last month I had a model, a dataset, and a GPU already warm. The old reflex said fine-tune. I didn’t. I sat there and asked whether…Continue reading on Towards AI »

The $80,000 Hallucination: Why RAG Fails at Healthcare Eligibility Verification

The $80,000 Hallucination: Why RAG Fails at Healthcare Eligibility Verification Reading comprehension is not transactional verification. When an autonomous intake bot checks a static PDF brochure …

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange — Laying the Foundation for AI Agent Authorization

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange — Laying the Foundation for AI Agent Authorization Background In a previous article, I walked through the three most common OAuth 2.0 grant flows: Authorization Code Flow …

The Summer AI Agents Started Knocking on Government Doors

OpenAI’s own agents wandered i⁠nto US and Aus​tralian government‍ websites, b⁠orrowi​ng keys stra​ngers had left​ lying around online…Continue reading on Towards AI »