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Two years ago, AI could autocomplete your sentence. Today, it writes production code, drafts legal contracts, generates photorealistic images, builds entire apps, and debates philosophy. Generative AI is not just another tech trend. It is a platform shift. The internet changed how we access informat...

PyCaret is an open-source, low-code machine learning library that simplifies and standardizes the end-to-end machine learning workflow. Instead of acting as a single AutoML algorithm, PyCaret functions as an experiment framework that wraps many popular machine learning libraries under a consistent a...

Suppose you want to locate a particular piece of information in a library that is the size of a city. This is a predicament that businesses have to deal with on a daily basis regarding their electronic data. They contain giant quantities of logs, documents, and user actions. Locating what is importa...

You type in a lengthy prompt, well over 500 words, or even 1000 words. It structures everything perfectly. Explains in detail what is to be done, right down to the finer details of each step. And you press enter. Your AI chatbot starts off strong, following every instruction from the top, then trail...

Swarm architecture brings together specialized AI agents that collaborate to solve complex data problems. Inspired by natural swarms, it pairs a Data Analyst agent for processing with a Visualization agent for chart creation, coordinated to deliver clearer and more efficient insights. This collabora...

Another month, another AI-powered trend taking over the internet, and this one is all about turning yourself into a caricature using ChatGPT Image. From LinkedIn feeds to group chats, people are sharing playful versions of themselves that capture not just their faces, but also their profession, pers...

Learning AI in 2026 is definitely not the same as it was just a couple of years ago. Back then, the advice was simple (and intimidating): learn advanced math, master machine learning theory, and maybe – just maybe – you’d be ready to work with AI. Today, that narrative no longer holds. And the reaso...

When I started working in the medical device industry almost 20 years ago, static analysis tools had captured the spotlight and attention of the medical device industry. This was apparent in a 2007 press article, which highlighted the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devic...

Data Engineering is not just about moving data from point A to point B. In 2026, data engineers are expected to design scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and analytics-ready data systems that support real-time decision making, AI workloads, and business intelligence. Modern data engineers work at t...

AI has evolved far beyond basic LLMs that rely on carefully crafted prompts. We are now entering the era of autonomous systems that can plan, decide, and act with minimal human input. This shift has given rise to Agentic AI: systems designed to pursue goals, adapt to changing conditions, and execute...

The rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI has intensified, from competing Super Bowl ads to launching new coding models on the same day. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s Codex 5.3 are now live. Both show strong benchmarks, but which one truly stands out? I’ll put them to the test and compare ...

Anthropic has been buzzing as of late. It recently caused a stock market meltdown with its release of the Claude Cowork tool that tanked the stocks of major SaaS providers across the world. And now they’re about to revolutionize reasoning models with their latest release, Claude Opus 4.6, which they...

We have seen big corporate rivalries in products across the gamut. Mac and Windows went at it for long. Then it was Pepsi and Coca-Cola, Burger King and McDonald’s, BMW and Mercedes, and the list goes on. But it is the era of AI, and it was only a matter of time before the competitiveness […] The po...

Recent developments on AI models have been specifically focused on one task – coding agents. Following the line, Alibaba’s Qwen is now out with a new model, one that promises industry-leading results, all while running locally. This essentially makes it an open-weight language model designed, in the...

Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, has become the backbone of most serious AI systems in the real world. The reason is simple: large language models are great at reasoning and writing, but terrible at knowing the objective truth. RAG fixes that by giving models a live connection to knowledge. W...

AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They read code, deploy apps, run workflows, move money, search the web, and remember what happened last week. MCP servers make that possible by connecting models to real systems. MCP replaces brittle APIs with structured, permission-aware access to t...

Ever since its introduction, Kimi K2.5 has flipped the script on what we expect from large language models. From personal experience, I know that most of the AI models being used every day still focus on chat-style responses. In such an AI era, Kimi K2.5 arrived with a different ambition: using AI p...

Imagine building a full Android app that generates AI questions, runs on a real backend, and uses a database without writing a single line of code. Claude Code, Anthropic’s terminal-based assistant, makes it possible to ship a working product from one clear prompt. This tutorial shows how to create ...

OpenClaw is everywhere right now. People are talking about the platform and the kinds of agents you can build with it. But what is all this hype really about? Most AI assistants still stop at conversation. They answer questions, forget context, and never actually take action. OpenClaw agents change ...

Large language models like ChatGPT, Claude are made to follow user instructions. But following user instructions indiscriminately creates a serious weakness. Attackers can slip in hidden commands to manipulate how these systems behave, a technique called prompt injection, much like SQL injection in ...

One of the best-performing algorithms in machine learning is the boosting algorithm. These are characterised by good predictive abilities and accuracy. All the methods of gradient boosting are based on a universal notion. They get to learn through the errors of the former models. Each new model is a...

Hot take – just like the Internet era, Google is leading the AI revolution. While there are many AI solutions out there, almost none of them integrate with the daily lives of users as deeply as Google’s AI ecosystem. Case in point: the tech giant has now partnered with PhysicsWallah and Career360 an...

Another year, another opportunity. For the nerdy ones, this is the right time to participate in some of the best hackathons that are out there. With hosts like Google DeepMind, Kaggle and Fractal having hackathons simultaneously, there is plenty of challenge on offer in 2026. Here you’ll find 5 of t...

Late last year, Google came up with a comprehensive plan to fix the current educational system for the better. How? Majorly with the help of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, in education. We had covered the plan in a detailed report at the time, which you can read here. Ever since, the tech giant’s A...