A developer argues that LLM-based judges cannot serve as build gates in RAG evaluation due to cost and non-determinism, advocating for deterministic metrics like precision@k, recall@k, and lexical ove…
LLM-as-judge architectures are shifting from offline evaluation into agent runtime control flow, letting applications make judgment calls on AI-generated work as it happens, according to a technical a…
Pydantic Logfire is the top pick among seven LLM evaluation tools compared in a guide updated August 26, 2026, which also covers Braintrust, Langfuse, LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Confident AI, and Galil…
In an essay crossposted from his website and edited with Claude Fable (Anthropic), the author argues that the scientific method's essence is intuition, not deduction, and that reasoning serves to cons…
Cisco Systems Inc. is applying its own AI tokenomics discipline, using Splunk Agent Observability and its Galileo acquisition to track and optimize token consumption, aiming to balance AI cost and val…
Pydantic Logfire ranks as the best AI agent optimization platform in 2026, according to a Pydantic analysis that evaluated tools on their ability to close the loop by proposing and shipping production…
Faros AI's 2025 study of 10,000+ developers across 1,255 enterprise engineering teams found that high AI adoption led to a 21% increase in task completion and 98% more pull requests merged, but review…
Sovereign Ventures published an open letter to early employees and founders of frontier AI labs, comparing them to the Medici family and urging them to convert their temporary 'frontier premium' into …
Microsoft has open-sourced ASSERT, an AI evaluation framework that converts natural-language requirements into executable tests for enterprise agents, as organizations struggle to validate agent behav…
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence titled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," marking the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII's *Rerum Nova…