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Nobody Knows If Deployed AI Agents Are Safe
The 2025 AI Agent Index just cataloged over 100 deployed agentic AI systems, and the finding that should alarm everyone isn't about capability. It's about...
The Control Interface Problem in Physical AI
NVIDIA just released a video foundation model that can simulate physical worlds with startling accuracy. A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory built an...
Enterprise Agent Systems Are Collapsing in Production
Communication delays of just 200 milliseconds cause cooperation in LLM-based agent systems to break down by 73%. Not network latency from poor...
Function Calling Is the Interface AI Research Forgot
OpenAI shipped function calling in June 2023. Anthropic followed with tool use. Google added it to Gemini. The capability felt like plumbing, necessary...
MoE Models Run 405B Parameters at 13B Cost
When Mistral AI dropped Mixtral 8x7B in December 2023, claiming GPT-3.5-level performance at a fraction of the compute cost, the reaction split cleanly...
AI Agent Orchestration Patterns: From Single Agent to Production Swarms
37% of multi-agent failures trace to inter-agent coordination, not individual agent limitations. Six production orchestration patterns with specific framework implementations, known failure modes, and quantitative guidance.
AI Guardrails for Agents: How to Build Safe, Validated LLM Systems
A Chevrolet chatbot sold a Tahoe for $1. Now AI agents can execute code, call APIs, and trigger real-world actions. Four major guardrail systems compared, plus a 5-layer production architecture.
The MCP Guide: Model Context Protocol Is AI's USB Port
97 million SDK downloads. 10,000+ community servers. MCP is becoming AI's universal connector, but its security model hasn't caught up with its adoption.
Vector Databases Are Agent Memory. Treat Them Like It
Most teams treat vector databases as fancy search indexes. The teams building agents that actually remember treat them as memory systems: with tiered architecture, decay policies, and retrieval strategies that mirror how memory actually works.
RAG Architecture Patterns: From Naive Pipelines to Agentic Loops
The naive RAG pipeline fails silently on every query that requires reasoning. From iterative retrieval to agentic loops, here are the architecture patterns that separate demos from production systems.