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Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled Inkling, its first general-purpose open-weights foundation model. It is a multimodal MoE model with 975B parameters, 41B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Rather than chasing benchmark supremacy, Inkling is designed as a customizable foundation for ...

If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, trading agents, and the infrastructure that ties them all together. We tracked star growth, momentum, ...

A practical enterprise AI architecture with data agents, AI-powered QA, and AI governance. The post Many Companies Use AI. Few Know How to Build an AI-Native Enterprise Data Platform. appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #10A] - The escalation cascade and the free, deterministic checks that flag a failed parse before you pay for a deeper one The post Loop Engineering with Adaptive PDF Parsing: Start Cheap, Pay for a Heavier Parser Only When the Page Needs It appeared first on ...

A practical guide to combining pre-churn scoring with uplift modelling for smarter retention. The post How to Improve Customer Retention in FinTech appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Maximize the latest OpenAI model The post How to Work Effectively with GPT-5.6 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

AI's energy crisis is reviving an old idea: computing with physics instead of digital logic. Here's how analog chips actually work, why noise nearly killed the idea once already, and what happens when you simulate that noise yourself. The post Analog AI Is Back, But Can It Survive Its Own Noise? app...

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post One RAG Pipeline, Four Very Different PDFs: Same Four Bricks, Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science....

Connecting MCP servers to Claude allows it to work with external tools, files, databases, repositories, and other systems instead of operating only within the chat window. The setup differs slightly between Claude Desktop and Claude Code, but both can be configured in just a few steps. In this artic...

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 are currently fighting for the frontier-model crown. Fable 5 holds a slight edge in general intelligence, while Sol hits back with stronger coding performance, faster execution and much lower pricing. In fact, GPT-5.6 Sol is priced closer to Claude Opus 4.8 than to Fab...

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #6quater] - Question parsing takes one messy string and writes four typed pieces, each read by a different downstream call The post Context Engineering for RAG Question Parsing: From a Raw Question to Typed Fields That Steer Retrieval and Generation appeared f...

Maximize your Claude Fable 5 usage The post How to Get the Most Out of Claude Fable 5 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Explore 10 YouTube channels for AI engineers covering paper breakdowns, coding tutorials, and industry analysis.

Why your regression coefficients keep changing, and what geometry has to do with it. The post Why Your Betas Explode: The Hidden Geometry of Multicollinearity appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Cross-provider PR review with Codex in GitHub Actions, and why a second opinion from a different lab beats any self-review The post Don’t Let Claude Grade Its Own Homework appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Learn a cleaner, more extensible way to dispatch logic in Python.

The strategies, questions, and process I used to ace coding interviews. The post How I Mastered Data Structures and Algorithms for ML (In 6 Weeks) appeared first on Towards Data Science.

THE GIST ▸ What it is: A 3,826-line system prompt steering Claude Fable 5 inside the Claude app, pulled from a public GitHub archive. ▸ What’s in it: Rules about safety, tone and restraint. ▸ Why it matters: it shows a frontier “AI” is far more an engineered rulebook than a mysterious mind. Before y...

Prompts shape every interaction with a large language model. Clear instructions produce focused, useful responses, while vague ones often lead to inconsistent results. This becomes harder when teams need the same task completed repeatedly in a fixed format, tone, or structure. Meta-prompting asks th...

Introduction Heavy computation is a well-known problem in various ML algorithms today, especially when generative AI is applied to text, images, and other unstructured data. One of the principal approaches to mitigate this problem is to compress input data into a lower-dimensional representation whi...

In this article, you will learn how to evaluate LLM applications using the three dominant open-source frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, and Promptfoo — and why...

Long sessions rot quietly, well before any token limit is reached. Here’s why, and how to govern your context in Claude Code. The post Context Rot: Why Claude Code Sessions Decay, and How to Govern Them appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Two short clips. One question: how alike do they look? Sounds trivial, it isn’t, and I learned that the slow way.  My setup: one reference clip, eight others to rank against it, all waterfalls (more on why in a second). I figured this was an afternoon job, grab a model, compute a number, move on. […...

Two techniques, two different problems, and why the question is not really "which one wins" The post RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each appeared first on Towards Data Science.