The Autonomy Trap: Why AI "Doing the Work for Us" is a Step Backward
Explore why the shift to autonomous AI agents in 2026 might be a "Cognitive Debt" trap. A critical look at OpenAI’s Prism, the fallacy of self-verification, and how delegating inquiry to AI erodes human expertise and intuition.
The Statistical Cost of Zero Padding in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
What is Zero Padding Zero padding is a technique used in convolutional neural networks where additional pixels with a value of zero are added around the borders of an image. This allows convolutional kernels to slide over edge pixels and helps control how much the spatial dimensions of the feature m...
What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. What would it take to convince you that the era of truth decay we were long warned about—where AI content dupes us, shapes our beliefs even when we catch the lie,...
Working with Billion-Row Datasets in Python (Using Vaex)
Analyze billion-row datasets in Python using Vaex. Learn how out-of-core processing, lazy evaluation, and memory mapping enable fast analytics at scale.
Snapshot of the global threat landscape includes surges in abuse of cloud services, rise in globally distributed attacks, and increased threats targeting critical infrastructure Forescout Technologies Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity, today released its “2025 Threat Roundup” report, an analysi...
Tricentis Expands Leadership to Scale AI-Powered Software Quality
Jason Bliss joins as EVP and President, Business Operations; Todd Horst joins as Chief Growth Officer Tricentis, a global leader in AI-augmented software quality, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives—Jason Bliss, EVP and President, Business Operations, and Todd Horst, Chief G...
DXC Names Rob Le Busque as Asia Pacific & Japan Leader
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the appointment of Rob Le Busque as President of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), effective immediately. Le Busque will report to T.R. Newcomb, Chief Revenue Officer. In his new role, Le Busque will be res...
The crucial first step for designing a successful enterprise AI system
Many organizations rushed into generative AI, only to see pilots fail to deliver value. Now, companies want measurable outcomes—but how do you design for success? At Mistral AI, we partner with global industry leaders to co-design tailored AI solutions that solve their most difficult problems. Wheth...
Lyric Health Appoints Bill Schmitt as Chief Growth Officer
Lyric Health, a leader in AI-powered virtual care and integrated health navigation, today announced the appointment of Bill Schmitt as Chief Growth Officer (CGO). In this newly created role, Schmitt will lead Lyric’s strategic growth initiatives, expand market presence, and drive enterprise partners...
Prompt Injection Attack: What They Are and How to Prevent Them
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 ...
Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcity Is the Source of True Intelligence
We are confusing “size” with “smart.” The next leap in artificial intelligence will not come from a larger data center, but from a more constrained environment.
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Druva Launches Threat Watch to Deliver Proactive, Continuous Threat Detection
New cloud-native capability reduces threat dwell time, accelerates incident response and cyber-recovery Druva, the leading provider of data security, today announced the launch of Threat Watch, a zero-touch, automated cloud-native solution for proactive threat monitoring of backup data. Threat Watch...
The free assessment gives engineering teams a clear view of AI maturity so they can align leadership, manage risk and plan the next phase of software innovation Coder, the leader in self-hosted AI development infrastructure for the enterprise, today unveiled its AI Maturity Self-Assessment, along wi...
ACTFORE Secures Patent for Template Identification and Matching Technology
ACTFORE’s latest patented technology redefines how organizations interpret and organize complex document sets following a cyber breach ACTFORE, a leading provider of AI-powered breach response and data mining solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a ...
NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro™ ranks fourth in anti-phishing test
Threat Protection Pro™ achieves 92% detection rate with zero false positives AV-Comparatives, a leading independent organisation in cybersecurity evaluation, has released its 2026 Anti-Phishing Comparative Test results. The test, which took place from January 7 to January 19, 2026, assessed the phis...
A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers
A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing many qubits to be read at once. The team has already demonstrated working arrays with dozens and even h...
Causal Imitation Learning Under Measurement Error and Distribution Shift
arXiv:2601.22206v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study offline imitation learning (IL) when part of the decision-relevant state is observed only through noisy measurements and the distribution may change between training and deployment. Such settings induce spurious state-action correlations, so ...
Why Reasoning Fails to Plan: A Planning-Centric Analysis of Long-Horizon Decision Making in LLM Agents
arXiv:2601.22311v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents exhibit strong step-by-step reasoning capabilities over short horizons, yet often fail to sustain coherent behavior over long planning horizons. We argue that this failure reflects a fundamental mismatch: step-w...
How to Build Memory-Driven AI Agents with Short-Term, Long-Term, and Episodic Memory
In this tutorial, we build a memory-engineering layer for an AI agent that separates short-term working context from long-term vector memory and episodic traces. We implement semantic storage using embeddings and FAISS for fast similarity search, and we add episodic memory that captures what worked,...