Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to track computational performance.
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Your AI agent's skills are lying to you about why they work
Skills don't teach your agent much of anything, according to a new 8,135-trial study: only 4.5% of skill use is actual knowledge injection. The rest is mostly the agent using the skill file to stay on track. And the more skills you add, the worse it gets at finding the right one...
10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027
From kill switches to Chief AI Officer authority, these are the ten questions separating AI leaders with real answers from leaders about to get a very uncomfortable board question...
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that needs to be controlled. The government believes that AI is, first and foremost, a national security as...
What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that develop...
Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power
Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid technology could eventually help make AI systems and next-generation computers far more energy efficient.
Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say the key may be balancing physical activity with screen activities that encourage learning, creativi...
How to build AI in the age of collaborative coding
I'm Steve, co-founder and CEO of Builder.io. and I want to talk about something that I think most teams are getting wrong right now, even the ones who've already bought into AI...
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you may never have written: the goals, constraints, and rationale ...
Drew Breunig is one of the smartest voices writing about AI today. He’s the CEO and co-founder of cmpnd.ai, and a long-time hacker with a depth of experience from several eras, which is a surprisingly valuable asset these days. He’s also got a book on the way, The Context Engineering Handbook, alrea...
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning.
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Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software
Ask an architect almost any question and you’ll get the same answer: It depends. For years this answer has been the punchline of jokes about architects, but in an era when AI can generate a working service faster than you can describe it, “it depends” is one of the most important phrases in software...
Data centers close on schedules that don't care about your AI roadmap. Get the sequencing wrong, and you don't just move SAP workloads to the cloud. You migrate every architectural weakness right along with them.
In 1995, the question in the media was whether Netscape or Microsoft would control the web. The answer, it turned out, was neither. Both Netscape and Microsoft aimed to dominate the web server and browser market, reasoning that whoever controlled both ends of the connection would have an internet “p...
We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here’s What I’d Call It.
Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code, told Business Insider in May that the phrase “vibe coding” had started to annoy him, and that he’d gone looking for a better one. He’s not the only one who’s annoyed. The term itself doesn’t actually annoy me, though. I think vibe coding is a really good name: It ...
Trust: The next critical infrastructure layer for autonomous AI
We're at an inflection point. AI has moved well beyond generating recommendations for humans to review. It's taking actions. It's embedded in business workflows. It's making decisions autonomously, and in many cases, it's doing all of this faster than any human could intervene.
88% of enterprises report regular AI use. Only 7% have scaled it. Here are the five strategies separating the companies that made it work from everyone still demoing chatbots to their board.