From Raw Audio to Actionable Data, Automating Call Center Triage with Cortex AI
Author(s): Krishnan Srinivasan Originally published on Towards AI. Powered by AI_TRANSCRIBE, turning recorded support calls into a structured, queryable feedback table. A call center runs on a routine most of us know without ever having worked one. A customer calls in. An …
NVIDIA's Switchyard Routes Claude Code on 113 Hardcoded Strings and Ignores Your Prompt
Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. Why this landed now I counted every string NVIDIA’s new agent router matches on. There are 113 of them. Exactly one is ever tested against your prompt rather than against …
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 …
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