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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...

If you’ve worked with DeepSeek OCR, you already know it was efficient at extracting text and compressing documents. Where it often fell short was reading order and layout-heavy pages, multi-column PDFs, dense tables, and mixed content still needed cleanup. DeepSeek OCR 2 is DeepSeek’s answer to that...

Python dominates AI and machine learning for one simple reason: its ecosystem is amazing. Most projects are built on a small set of libraries that handle everything from data loading to deep learning at scale. Knowing these libraries makes the entire development process fast and easy. Let’s break th...

My favourite open-source AI model just got a major upgrade..Kimi K2.5 is here! LLMs excel at answering questions and writing code, but real work spans messy documents, images, incomplete data, and long decision chains. Most AI systems still struggle in these environments. Moonshot AI built Kimi K2.5...

As the days go by, there are more benchmarks than ever. It is hard to keep track of every HellaSwag or DS-1000 that comes out. Also, what are they even for? Bunch of cool looking names slapped on top of a benchmark to make them look cooler… Not really. Other than the zany naming that […] The post 10...

Modern AI applications rely on intelligent agents that think, cooperate, and execute complex workflows, while single-agent systems struggle with scalability, coordination, and long-term context. AgentScope AI addresses this by offering a modular, extensible framework for building structured multi-ag...

I just downloaded the latest 4 Billion parameter model. I hit ‘Run‘. After a while, the Google Colab instance crashes. Sounds familiar? Well this is bound to happen if we don’t pay attention to the required VRAM and what VRAM we are providing to the model. Quantization is something that can help you...

At its core, ML involves algorithms that analyze data, recognize patterns, and make predictions. These models “learn” from past data to improve their performance over time. For example, an ML model trained on user purchase history can predict which products a customer might buy next. Artificial Inte...

Job descriptions of Data Engineering roles have changed drastically over the years. In 2026, these read less like data plumbing and more like production engineering. You are expected to ship pipelines that don’t break at 2 AM, scale cleanly, and stay compliant while they do it. So, no – “I know Pyth...

In the past couple of years, we have seen vibe coding evolve from just an idea that sounded “fancy” to a full-time practice for many budding developers. What used to sound like a gimmick is now a must-have skill, even in the professional world. Proof? The recent round of funding secured by one such ...