AI Tutorials
August 2, 2026•14 min read
Ship What You Can Name: The AI Release Passport
A practical guide to inventorying models, data, prompts, tools, evidence, and provenance so an exact AI release can be assessed, promoted, and rolled back.
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AI Technology
August 1, 2026•14 min read
When the AI Evaluation Escapes: Containing Cyber-Capable Agents
A practical architecture for evaluating cyber-capable AI agents without giving a benchmark sandbox a transitive path into production systems.
AI Technology
July 31, 2026•16 min read
Inside a 53.6x Wan2.2 Speedup
How sparse attention, persistent CUDA kernels, four-step distillation, and NVFP4 turn a 133-second pipeline into near-real-time video generation.
Industry Insights
July 30, 2026•9 min read
The Evidence-First Enterprise: Automation People Can Trust
The next generation of enterprise AI should not merely produce an answer. It should show the evidence, uncertainty, authority, and action path behind it.
AI Tutorials
July 29, 2026•10 min read
From Demo to Dependable System: An AI Readiness Checklist
Before launch, an AI feature needs an owner, evaluation gates, security boundaries, observability, cost limits, fallback, and controlled change.
Industry Insights
July 28, 2026•9 min read
Synthetic Data With a Birth Certificate
Synthetic data needs provenance, purpose, validation, contamination controls, and a retirement rule. Artificial does not mean anonymous or harmless.
Industry Insights
July 27, 2026•10 min read
The Pocket Multimodal Model: Seeing and Hearing at the Edge
Small multimodal models can deliver private, low-latency perception on devices—if teams design around their limits instead of pretending they are miniature frontier models.
Industry Insights
July 26, 2026•10 min read
The Agentic Checkout: Payments for AI Agents
When an agent can buy, the payment system must bind identity, intent, item, payee, budget, receipt, and dispute rights into one controlled transaction.
Industry Insights
July 25, 2026•11 min read
Learning From Checkable Work: Verifiable Rewards in AI
When an answer can be independently checked, AI training can reward completed work rather than persuasive language—but the verifier becomes part of the product.
Industry Insights
July 24, 2026•10 min read
The Inference Budget: When Should an AI Think Longer?
Test-time compute can improve difficult answers, but useful systems must decide which tasks deserve more reasoning, tools, and verification.
AI Tutorials
July 23, 2026•12 min read
The AI Vendor Dossier: Buying Evidence, Not a Demo
AI procurement should test the service behind the interface: data handling, evaluations, security, operations, cost, portability, and exit.
Industry Insights
July 22, 2026•12 min read
Managing a Mixed Team of People and Agents
Agentic work changes team design: roles need explicit ownership, queues need visible state, and every automated handoff needs an accountable person.