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, generative AI took off and RAG showed up as the standard answer for “we have documents, we want to ask questions.” The pitch sounded miraculous. The implementation everyone described was the same one, over and over: chunk the documents, push the chunks into a vector store, embed the question, retrieve top-k by cosine similarity, optionally rerank, send the hits to an LLM Vendors converged on it. Consulting decks converged on it. Conference talks converged on it. The RAG recipe everyone described: chunk, vector store, top-k cosine, optional rerank, LLM – Image by author Then the deployments started shipping, and…

The proposed legislation would cut financial support for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Michele Sandiford May 22, 2026 4:19 pm < a min read The House Appropriations Committee is proposing a $1.8 billion, or 20%, cut to the EPA’s fiscal 2027 budget. As part of the Interior, Environment, and related agencies spending bill, lawmakers are simultaneously boosting the Interior Department’s funding by nearly $700 million. The bill also backs President Trump’s plan to consolidate Interior firefighting units and slashes funding for climate initiatives. Furthermore, it would reduce financial support for…

Every major economy is confronting an identical challenge today. Artificial intelligence is gobbling up electricity at a rate that power grids were never built to support. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the nation’s largest grid operator, have surged more than ten times in just two years, with data-centre expansion pinpointed as a key culprit. In Europe, utility companies are rushing to modernise transmission networks quickly enough to match hyperscalers’ relentless appetite.The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that worldwide data-centre electricity demand could near 1,000 TWh by the decade’s close. Renewable energy supply is largely in place, but…

Key takeaways:Bitcoin has fallen below $77,000, indicating that sellers are likely to take over.Altcoins have had varied experiences, with some pushing past resistance while others fight to hold their support levels.Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped below $77,000, showing that bears are trying to take control. Glassnode reported that the true market average of $78,300 has historically marked the line separating bearish and bullish trends. If the price falls sharply below this point, it would suggest that the recent gains may have just been a “short-term peak in the current downturn.”Large investors appear to be offloading their positions, as shown by the…

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a massive automated attack named Megalodon, which flooded GitHub with 5,718 harmful commits across 5,561 repositories in just six hours. According to a report by SafeDep, the attacker used temporary accounts and fake developer identities—such as build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, and pipeline-bot—to insert GitHub Actions workflows. These workflows contained base64-encoded bash scripts designed to steal sensitive data—including CI secrets, cloud credentials, SSH keys, OIDC tokens, and source code—and send it to a command-and-control server at 216.126.225[.]129:8443. Here’s a breakdown of what the malware harvested: Environment variables from CI systems, /proc/*/environ, and PID 1 environment Amazon Web Services…

  # Introduction  In a recent article on Machine Learning Mastery, we built a tool-calling agent that reached outward, that is pulling weather, news, currency rates, and time from public APIs. That article covered the synthesis half of the pattern nicely, but it left the more interesting half on the table: an agent that reasons about its own environment, inspects its own machine, and offloads logic it doesn’t trust itself to perform. It could be argued that this is closer to truly “agentic.” This article picks up where that one left off. We will give Gemma 4 two new tools —…

Thanks to Cilium-powered cross-cluster networking, we now offer a fully managed, high-performance network solution that connects your entire cluster fleet seamlessly. In this article As businesses modernize their applications, the way cloud-native infrastructure is designed is changing fundamentally. The focus has shifted from “How do we scale a single cluster?” to “How do we scale across multiple clusters, regions, and clouds while keeping operations simple?” Today, we’re excited to introduce the public preview of cross-cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager. This new feature marks a major step forward in multi-cluster management, bringing transparent east-west multi-cluster networking powered by Advanced…

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Introduction an agentic AI network for my company that advises manufacturing plants on how to mature their operations. The system was designed to be data-driven, allowing users to upload assessment data directly through the chat interface. The first working prototype was finished surprisingly quickly, and at first glance the results looked promising. There was only one problem: Most of the results were wrong! Even worse, the AI quickly learned which numerical ranges looked plausible and began generating convincing — but fabricated — outputs. Combined with the eloquent language generation of the LLM, these results could easily be mistaken for truth. And this behavior was…

XRP’s price drop has intensified discussions within the crypto market as the token lags behind other major digital assets in 2026. Traders and investors are increasingly frustrated due to the widening gap between market hopes and reality. XRP Prices Have Plummeted Around 26% So Far in 2026 XRP’s declining price shows it has not kept pace with positive developments Ripple has made within its ecosystem. The token is down nearly 26% from where it started in 2026 and remains trading in a tight range between $1.36 and $1.37. XRP price performance – Year-to-Date. Source: TradingView According to CoinGecko, XRP is…