White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar On June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 …
Loop Engineering vs. Harness Engineering: When to Use Each (And Why Most Teams Confuse Them)
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. A practical breakdown of the two disciplines reshaping how production AI agents get built in 2026, plus a framework for figuring out which one your project is missing. An AI agent that spins in …
I Know Why You Can’t Break Into AI.
Author(s): Anubhav Originally published on Towards AI. It’s not the skills gap. If you have applied to AI roles recently and heard nothing back, here is what is happening on the other side. After the lead, the article argues that the market …
Two Trump Cards Google Played, and Only One Is Getting Talked About
Author(s): Gaurav Shrivastav Originally published on Towards AI. Everyone saw the video model. Almost nobody read the 12-page spec that quietly reshapes how agents get their facts. Google shipped two things in June that could not look more different. Google OKF (Design …
Context Window Management Is the New Memory Management
Author(s): Satyam Sahu Originally published on Towards AI. A practical guide to token budgeting, context pruning, and conversation compression for LLM applications that don’t blow up at scale Let me tell you something that took me embarrassingly long to actually understand when …
How AI Agents Coordinate Multiple Tools Without Losing Control
Author(s): Shahidullah Kawsar Originally published on Towards AI. AI Engineer Interview Preparation 1. A global travel platform is building an AI assistant that can search flights, search hotels, check weather, and convert currencies. A user asks it to plan a weekend trip …
Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship On 30 June 2026, Anthropic published a launch table in which its mid-tier model outscores its flagship. Claude Sonnet 5 posts 1618 …
Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs Mark Zuckerberg spent the first half of 2026 laying off about 8,000 people, reassigning roughly 7,000 more into AI …
Building Long-Running Claude Managed Agents: Why State Matters More Than Compute
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Photo from AI At 9:03 am on a Tuesday, my research agent said hello and stared at an empty /workspace/. Six hours of analysis from the night before. Gone. The cloned repository. The installed …
Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash Introduction: Learning by Trial and Error Imagine teaching a dog to fetch a ball. You don’t hand the dog a …
Harness Engineering Explained: The One Layer Behind Every AI Agent That Actually Works
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Most AI agents are built with the smart part but not the safe part. Here is what the missing layer is, why it exists, and what breaks without it. A company built an AI …
The Math Behind “The House Always Wins”
Author(s): Fern Originally published on Towards AI. The Math Behind “The House Always Wins” Link: https://unsplash.com/photos/red-casino-neon-sign-turned-on-bYtIpXnzsQM Casino probabilities are not guesses. They are calculated by listing every possible outcome, assigning each outcome its correct probability, and then checking which outcomes lead to …
Linear Trees: What If Every Decision-Tree Leaf Had Its Own Linear Model?
Author(s): Fern Originally published on Towards AI. Linear Trees: What If Every Decision-Tree Leaf Had Its Own Linear Model? Link: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-screen-with-a-bunch-of-code-on-it-ieic5Tq8YMk As data scientists, our machine learning toolkits often force us into a frustrating ultimatum, making us choose between two entirely different …
RAG Evaluation 101: What to Measure (and What Not to)
Author(s): Anubhav Originally published on Towards AI. Five questions, five papers, five things your RAG eval is probably getting wrong. If you have built a RAG, you have asked yourself the question: is this thing actually any good? After the lead paragraph, …
I Tried 100+ Claude Skills. These 6 Actually Changed How I Work.
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. After testing more than 100 Claude Code skills, only six became part of my daily workflow. Here is what each one does. I built more than 100 Claude Code skills. Photo from AIThe author …
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