MCP Just Deleted Its Own Handshake — and Every Request Got 118% Bigger
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. MCP Just Deleted Its Own Handshake — and Every Request Got 118% Bigger I measured the new Model Context Protocol wire format against the old one this morning, and the …
Kimi K3 Explained: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 16 Active Experts, 1 Huge AI Shift
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Why Moonshot’s new open model may change long-context reasoning, coding, and AI economics Moonshot built a model with 2.8 trillion parameters, then designed it so almost all of them remain silent for each …
Siebel 26.6’s RAG-Powered Search: Why Your Support Reps Stop Solving the Same Ticket Twice
Author(s): Eshita Nandy Originally published on Towards AI. A Siebel developer’s honest walkthrough of Retrieval-Augmented Generation in service request search — what it fixes, how the OpenSearch vector pipeline works, and where the gaps still are. Here’s a scenario every Siebel-supported help …
The Repository That Reviews Itself
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Triage bots, disposable test boxes, pooled API budgets, and a review loop that calls itself, reconstructed from the source. This article walks through the tooling that keeps OpenClaw, …
Semantic Routing Protocol: How AI Agents Are Starting to Talk to Each Other Directly (Not Through LLMs)
Author(s): Rizwanhoda Originally published on Towards AI. You’ve built an AI agent that works perfectly in development. Deploy it to production with 30 different SaaS integrations and suddenly your costs are 10x higher and latency is unbearable. Here’s why, and what Semantic …
Hermes vs OpenClaw: 2026 Open Source AI Agent Automation Framework Guide
Author(s): Web Researcher Originally published on Towards AI. AI agents are evolving from simple task assistants into autonomous systems capable of executing processes, calling tools, and optimizing workflows. As trending AI automation frameworks, OpenClaw and Hermes represent two distinct directions: the former …
Real-Time Anomaly Detection With Kafka and Faust: From Stream to Slack Alert in Under 2 Seconds
Author(s): EMMANUEL NWANGUMA Originally published on Towards AI. There’s a category of problem where being right tomorrow is the same as being wrong. A fraudulent transaction clears. A server starts throwing errors at 2pm and nobody notices until the morning report. A …
How MCP Improves External Tooling in Hermes AI Agent Workflows
Author(s): Hoe shi Lee Originally published on Towards AI. How MCP Improves External Tooling in Hermes AI Agent Workflows Hermes AI Agent is gaining popularity these days as teams explore autonomous, workflow-driven systems for research, automation, and multi-step execution. I’ve used it …
Anthropic Just Exposed Claude Code’s Biggest Weakness. The Fix Takes Only 6 Lines.
Author(s): Anup Karanjkar Originally published on Towards AI. Opus 4.8 quietly admits AI struggles to catch its own bugs. The real breakthrough isn’t a smarter model — it’s making another AI review code it never wrote. Read Anthropic’s own line about their …
Kimi K3: The Chinese Model That Just Beat Claude at Its Own Game
Author(s): MayhemCode Originally published on Towards AI. China Beat America’s Best Coding AI, and Almost Nobody Saw It Coming On July 16 2026, most of the western developers never think of this will ever happen, like a model released one year ago …
If AI Can Clone Your App in a Day, What Is Left to Defend?
Author(s): Dave R – Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ Originally published on Towards AI. Software moats, agent architectures, and the engineering that still holds value when the cost of building drops to almost zero. This article looks at software defensibility in a …
Logistic Regression: The Tutorial That Starts Where Others End
Author(s): Felix Pappe Originally published on Towards AI. Go inside the training loop and watch the model learn If you’ve ever wondered what statistics packages and programs are doing when calculating logistic regression, this is for you. The logistic (sigmoid) function transforms …
How DeepSeek Taught AI to Think for Itself: The Breakthrough Behind the R1 Revolution
Author(s): Pop123 Originally published on Towards AI. How DeepSeek Taught AI to Think for Itself: The Breakthrough Behind the R1 Revolution From ‘Eureka’ moments to grading on a curve — how a simple change in reinforcement learning created an AI that corrects …
When You Can’t Measure What Matters: A Closed-Loop Harness for Probability-of-Default Estimation
Author(s): Hossain Pazooki Originally published on Towards AI. When You Can’t Measure What Matters: A Closed-Loop Harness for Probability-of-Default Estimation Causal estimators for loan decisions cannot be graded on real lending data, because the data never contains the answer. Planting the truth …
Building Physics Simulations with Pymunk and Pygame — Part III
Author(s): Sakshi Bhatia Originally published on Towards AI. Building Physics Simulations with Pymunk and Pygame — Part III http://www.pymunk.org/ Damped Spring It is a damped spring. (Without damping, the spring would oscillate forever once compressed or stretched.) from pymunk.constraints import RotarySpringspring = …