In Pasadena, California, there's a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn't like the rest. The glass doors open onto a sparse industrial hallway, which leads to a sunlit foyer with a large spiral staircase. Go up, and you'll see a typical coworking space: open tables, healthy snacks, a collection of meeting rooms with […]
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The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on […]
Boox's new Tile lineup will take on Xteink's popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone with MagSafe. As spotted by Good E-Reader, the first one is the Picco, which will feature a 3.97-inch front-lit, black-and-white e-paper display and expandable storage with an SD card slot. Boox confirmed to […]
Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in their next Chromebook should check out Best Buy, which is discounting Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for the remainder of the day. Originally $749 for the configuration with 12GB […]
Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints about Tesla's mechanical door release don't warrant a defect investigation. Instead, the issue is better addressed through a broader […]
AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Microsoft does not create expert-tier certifications for experiments. An expert credential is a market declaration: this discipline is mature, hireable, and worth filtering résumés on. Multi-agent orchestration just got that stamp.
The credential is Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert , earned by passing Exam AI-500 , now in beta with limited discounted seats per Microsoft's announcement . If you are weighing an exam AI-500 beta seat, this piece gives you what it tests, ho...
An iOS or Android update can change a screen you shipped without you changing a line of code. If your app builds its UI from UIKit, SwiftUI, Compose, or Material widgets, Apple or Google owns those widget implementations. Codename One does something different. It statically links our lightweight component implementation into your native app. The UI you test is the UI your users keep after the next OS update. An update can still break a platform API or permission contract, but it cannot swap our ...
A few weeks ago, I set out to build a small portfolio project: a Streamlit app that could take any tabular dataset, understand something about its structure, and give honest guidance on how to model it.
I called it ContextLens .
I expected it to be a practical exercise in Python, machine learning, and deployment.
What I didn't expect was how closely it would connect with the same questions I work with every day in my PhD research on context-aware intelligent systems.
The pr...
This is Part 18 of my series on the Microsoft Agent Framework. You can read the original post over on lukaswalter.dev .
In the previous article , we looked at observability for agents.
The main idea was to make a run visible as a chain of model calls, tool calls, approvals, and workflow events.
Testing starts from the same idea.
An agent run is not one answer string.
It is a small application flow with several boundaries:
user input
-> prompt and context
-> model re...
Originally published on nejckorasa.github.io .
When a team moves from a monolith into microservices and event-driven, asynchronous systems, it inherits a class of problems that used to be someone else's: work that fails halfway through, steps that must not run twice, calls that return before the work is done. Temporal is a durable execution engine that handles a lot of this - you define a multi-step process, and it guarantees the process runs to completion even when workers crash in the ...
A few months ago, if you had asked me whether Structured Outputs solved hallucinations, I probably would have said yes.
Today, I wouldn't.
Not because Structured Outputs don't work-they absolutely do.
But because they solve a different problem .
After building ShapeCraft, an open-source structured output library supporting OpenAI, Groq, Ollama (GBNF), and Anthropic, I realized something that fundamentally changed how I think about production AI.
Structure and correctness are two...
The first time I audited seriously, I opened the biggest contract in the repo and started reading line one. Two hours later I had a headache and zero findings. I had memorized how the code worked without ever asking what it was supposed to guarantee. That is backwards, and it took me a while to unlearn it.
Now I do not read Solidity first. I read the scope, and before I look at a single function body I write down what must always be true. Bugs are violations of those truths. If you do not kno...