OpenAI and Anthropic Just Made Corporate Hacking a Benchmark
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI and Anthropic have turned real-world hacking into a leaderboard, and the rest of us are the scoreboard. On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its production infrastructure. The company later …
The Search Agent That Stopped Fooling Itself
Author(s): Gowtham Boyina Originally published on Towards AI. Why teaching an AI to pick from a menu beats letting it write its own questions Here is a strange failure that shows up when you train an AI agent to search for answers …
Rewriting Business Rules: Artificial Intelligence in Legal Tech and Compliance
Author(s): SONAL JOHRI Originally published on Towards AI. How AI is changing forensics and evidentiary standards in the courtroom Every case, criminal or civil, eventually comes down to the same question: what happened, and can it be proven? For decades, this process …
Why Kubernetes Exists: From a Python Script to Production Orchestration
Author(s): Ake Originally published on Towards AI. Ai-generated A practical, first-principles guide to the problems Kubernetes solves — and why Docker alone is not enough Part 1 of the Kubernetes for MLOps series TL;DR Kubernetes exists because running one container is easy, …
OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: the Honest Comparison Nobody’s Given You Yet
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: the Honest Comparison Nobody’s Given You Yet Peter Steinberger built the first version of what became OpenClaw in about an hour. A WhatsApp bot, a few tools bolted on, pushed to …
DeepSeek-V4-Flash: the $0.28 Model that Just Embarrassed the AI Industry’s Pricing
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. How DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s hybrid sparse attention and MoE design deliver near-frontier agentic coding at a fraction of GPT and Claude’s API cost Twenty-eight cents. That’s what a million output tokens costs on DeepSeek-V4-Flash. The same volume …
Becoming a Top 1% Hermes Agent User: The Complete Playbook No One Else Is Sharing
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. Becoming a Top 1% Hermes Agent User: The Complete Playbook No One Else Is Sharing Three weeks into running Hermes Agent on a $5 VPS, I opened my terminal and it told me something I …
ADLC Has Six Definitions and Zero Consensus — I Compared Every Major Framework
Author(s): AIguru Originally published on Towards AI. ADLC Has Six Definitions and Zero Consensus — I Compared Every Major Framework created by GEMINI Ask six vendors what “Agentic Development Lifecycle” means and you’ll get six different phase counts, six different priorities, and …
Building Reliable AI Agents with Tool Calling and Structured Output in 2026
Author(s): CodeInsights Originally published on Towards AI. Why Tool Calling Matters More Than Ever Tool calling has become one of the most important capabilities for building production-grade AI agents. While early agents relied heavily on prompting and chain-of-thought reasoning, modern agents increasingly …
AI Fundamentals: Understanding Activation Functions (Part 1)
Author(s): The Build Log Originally published on Towards AI. AI Fundamentals: Understanding Activation Functions (Part 1) Let’s make a case for non-linearity in neural networks, and understand the Universal Approximation Theorem Stacking a hundred layers in a neural network without non-linear activation …
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: The Winner May Surprise AI Engineers
Author(s): “The AI Engineer” Originally published on Towards AI. Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: The Winner May Surprise AI Engineers created by GEMINI On June 25, 2025, Andrej Karpathy posted eleven words on X that quietly ended one era of AI engineering …
HTTP Status Codes: The Little Numbers That Tell You Everything
Author(s): Code X Originally published on Towards AI. HTTP Status Codes: The Little Numbers That Tell You Everything 200, 404, 500 — do you actually know what your server/browser is trying to tell you? In this series we will go through the …
Give Me a Few Minutes, and You’ll Finally Understand P-Values (No Math Required)
Author(s): Siddharth Mahato Originally published on Towards AI. Give Me a Few Minutes, and You’ll Finally Understand P-Values (No Math Required) Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash If you’ve ever read a scientific study, scrolled through a fitness article, or watched a …
The Real AI Story in Academia Isn’t Cheating. It’s Who Gets Discovered.
Author(s): Emad Deilam Salehi Originally published on Towards AI. In Data Science Collective by Hayanan · 6d ago Nobody Expected AI to Develop This Kind of Reasoning It turns out large language models plan the ending of a sentence before they write …
How AWS Kiro Skills and Powers Improve Context Engineering in Enterprise AI Development
Author(s): Sudha Subramaniam Originally published on Towards AI. How AWS Kiro Skills and Powers Improve Context Engineering in Enterprise AI Development Enterprise AI work usually does not fail because the model is “not smart enough.” It fails because the model is given …