The Number That Matters in Cloudflare’s Clef System-One Model Isn’t 38.8 ms — Jev and Laya compared
Author(s): Muhammad Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. The Number That Matters in Cloudflare’s Clef System-One Model Isn’t 38.8 ms — Jev and Laya compared Cloudflare just open-sourced Clef and Clef-flash, two “System One” decision models built on Qwen. The headline is …
What Constrained Decoding Does That Prompting Never Can
Author(s): “The AI Engineer” Originally published on Towards AI. Subtitle You asked the model for JSON. You wrote “return valid JSON only” in capital letters. You added an example. You added a second example. For 99 calls out of 100, it worked. …
The Fix Was Already Shipped: Lessons From LiteLLM’s 2026
Author(s): Nick Hystax Originally published on Towards AI. The Fix Was Already Shipped: Lessons From LiteLLM’s 2026 Data: LiteLLM advisories, GitHub Advisory Database, Sysdig, CISA KEV catalog In late August, Microsoft’s security researchers published a detailed account of an intrusion into a …
AI Helped Me Build RAG. I Still Couldn’t Debug It.
Author(s): Words by Dharani Originally published on Towards AI. What retrieval failures taught me and why I built a small Python exercise that fails on purpose. I built a RAG system with AI assistance before I properly understood how RAG worked. My …
Claude Code Costs About $13 a Day per Developer, and Agent Teams Use Roughly 7x the Tokens
Author(s): Nazmul Hasan Originally published on Towards AI. The headline average is in Anthropic’s own documentation. So is the fact that 90% of users stay under $30 a day, which means there is a tail, and the docs name exactly what puts …
Developing Sophisticated Controllable Agents with RAG.
Author(s): Surya Maddula Originally published on Towards AI. How to move past one-shot retrieval and build agents that grade their own evidence, rewrite their own questions, and catch themselves before they lie. With a small experiment you can run in your terminal …
Structured Data Extraction With AI That “Can’t Hallucinate”
Author(s): Umair Ali Khan, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. How AI decision models offer a fast and cost-effective approach to turning unstructured text into decisions Most of the organizational data is unstructured, such as incident reports, support tickets, maintenance logs, call-center …
Structured Data Extraction With AI That “Can’t Hallucinate”
Author(s): Umair Ali Khan, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. How AI decision models offer a fast and cost-effective approach to turning unstructured text into decisions Most of the organizational data is unstructured, such as incident reports, support tickets, maintenance logs, call-center …
Claude’s New addTools() Can Reuse 98.7% of Your Next Request. Editing tools[] Reuses None.
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic’s SDK 0.128.0, released with Claude Opus 5.5, can hand the model a new tool mid-run without touching tools[]. It needs one beta flag the runner won’t add for you. …
Claude’s New addTools() Can Reuse 98.7% of Your Next Request. Editing tools[] Reuses None.
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic’s SDK 0.128.0, released with Claude Opus 5.5, can hand the model a new tool mid-run without touching tools[]. It needs one beta flag the runner won’t add for you. …
Qwen-Image-2.1 Is the Best Local Image Model in 2026. The Download Is 33 GB.
Author(s): Ankit Agrawal Originally published on Towards AI. Qwen-Image-2.1 tops both blind image arenas among downloadable models. Here is the VRAM, the speed on a 4090, and the licence. Qwen-Image-2.1 is 7 billion parameters. The download is 33 gigabytes. It runs in …
What is Jev?: How Jev Works Inside an AI Agent
Author(s): Muhammad Haider Tallal Originally published on Towards AI. TypeSafe’s decision model, examined through public tests, developer demonstrations and the details that matter when software acts on its answers. A customer reports that their Stripe integration has been failing for three days …
LAI #144: Your Eval Improved. Did Your AI?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Your eval score went up. That does not necessarily mean your AI got better. If you change the generation prompt and the judge prompt in the same run, …
Canada and Germany Just Put $300 Million Into an AI Designed to Want Nothing
Author(s): Delini Originally published on Towards AI. Every frontier lab is racing to build systems that pursue goals. Yoshua Bengio has spent a year building the opposite, and two governments have now bet a quarter of a billion dollars that his version …
Claude Opus 5.5: Cheaper, Faster, and It Won’t Stop Thinking
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic’s new Opus costs 40% less than its predecessor, tops the benchmarks, and can’t turn its thinking off anymore. Good and bad, in one release. At Quantium, a task ran 38 prompts over four …