Deadlines as a First-Class Input
Author(s): Shrashti Singhal Originally published on Towards AI. Propagating a latency budget into the reasoning, so the agent trades depth for time on purpose instead of timing out mid-thought. Here is a race condition currently running in production at more companies than …
The AI Model That Doesn’t Generate Text Is Up to 200x Faster
Author(s): Codebook Fusion Originally published on Towards AI. Jev is an AI model that doesn’t generate text. It returns typed decisions with confidence scores, up to 200x faster than LLMs. Here’s how it works. I spent a long time treating one thing …
Measuring Impact When You Can’t A/B Test — a Quick and Practical Guide to Causal Inference
Author(s): Jonty Haberfield Originally published on Towards AI. A tour of methods including Propensity Score Matching, Double ML, Instrumental Variables, and Two Way Fixed Effects What do you do if you want to separate correlation from causation — if you want to …
GLM-5.3-Flash vs GPT-6 Astra: the open model that rewrites the cost equation
Author(s): allglenn Originally published on Towards AI. Open weights just changed the math. The cost argument for GLM-5.3-Flash is not that open weights are inherently better than GPT-6 Astra. It is that high-volume agents with long, repeated contexts now have a much …
Stanford’s 37,000 AI Agents Put Reasoning-Layer Governance on the Life Sciences Agenda
Author(s): Maureen Doyle-Spare Originally published on Towards AI. Stanford’s 37,000 AI Agents Put Reasoning-Layer Governance on the Life Sciences Agenda The scientific promise is extraordinary. As autonomous agents begin working across drug development, life sciences will need a way to preserve authorized …
I Built a 100% Local Multi-Agent Swarm on a MacBook. No APIs. No Cloud.
Author(s): Addepalle Nikhil Varma Originally published on Towards AI. How I routed specialized tasks between 3 quantized SLMs to beat GPT-4o at coding tasks for exactly $0.00. Ever opened your OpenAI dashboard at 2 AM and felt a sudden chill in your …
Positive Sentiment Can Still Contain Criticism: Testing Jev Alongside ABSA
Author(s): Massimiliano Geraci Originally published on Towards AI. Positive Sentiment Can Still Contain Criticism: Testing Jev Alongside ABSA A recovered local baseline, complementary judgments, and the limits of an early shadow replay. Figure 1. A positive label can coexist with separate praise …
The AI Agent Landscape in 2026: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini
Author(s): Sudha Subramaniam Originally published on Towards AI. How Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini Are Becoming Operating Layers for Work The next phase of AI is not about which chatbot gives the best answer. It is about which system can understand your …
Understanding LLM Context Windows: Tokens, Attention, and Long-Context Challenges
Author(s): Rajesh Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. Why bigger context windows increase capacity — but also compute, memory pressure, noise, and architectural complexity. Your model supports 128K tokens. So you give it more context. Conversation history. Retrieved documents. Tool outputs. Logs. …
GPT-Live-1 Tool Delegation: Keep Voice Agents Honest During Slow Work
Author(s): Ethan Mark Originally published on Towards AI. GPT-Live-1 Tool Delegation: Keep Voice Agents Honest During Slow Work A full-duplex model can make a voice demo feel magical. A typed delegation contract is what keeps the same agent from talking over customers, …
How Transformers Actually Work: From Attention to ChatGPT
Author(s): Rajesh Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. A beginner-friendly explanation of attention, Q/K/V, decoder-only models, and the architecture behind modern LLMs A Transformer is a neural network architecture designed to model relationships between elements in a sequence. After introducing transformers as …
Embedded AI Evaluation: The Access Contract Enterprises Need Before They Trust Their Agents
Author(s): Ethan Mark Originally published on Towards AI. Embedded AI Evaluation: The Access Contract Enterprises Need Before They Trust Their Agents How to give independent evaluators enough access to test an AI agent honestly — without turning an assessment into a data …
Everyone’s Chasing Bigger AI Models. The Smartest Teams Are Quietly Going Smaller.
Author(s): Aqeel Abbas Originally published on Towards AI. One enterprise migration cut infrastructure costs from $3,000 a month to $127. It wasn’t a fluke — it’s a pattern showing up across the industry’s actual production data. For most of the last three …
AI Agent Memory Promotion Gate: Stop Untrusted Summaries From Becoming Instructions
Author(s): Anna Jey Originally published on Towards AI. AI Agent Memory Promotion Gate: Stop Untrusted Summaries From Becoming Instructions Your agent may be writing a prompt to its future self. Treat that write path like production code, not a harmless recap. A …
The Next Programming Language Might Be a Folder of Skills
Author(s): Aditya Kumar Puri Originally published on Towards AI. The Next Programming Language Might Be a Folder of Skills I used to think programming an agent meant two things: Write code the model can call. Keep rewriting the system prompt until it …
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