LAI #142: My AI Setup in 2026
Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI co-founder and head of community, detailed his daily AI setup in LAI #142, running Claude Code and Codex from an always-on Mac mini while keeping reusable knowledge…
Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI co-founder and head of community, detailed his daily AI setup in LAI #142, running Claude Code and Codex from an always-on Mac mini while keeping reusable knowledge…
The authors of 'Building LLMs for Production' announced a sequel, 'AI Engineering for Production,' launching October 20, which focuses on engineering challenges that remain once models are already goo…
Towards AI's newsletter #141 highlights the importance of session state in multi-turn AI conversations, noting that retrieval systems often fail when they only use the latest user message. The issue a…
A Towards AI article explains that a neural network without activation functions is mathematically equivalent to linear regression, tracing the modern neural network concept back to multiple linear re…
LLM watermarking detection is fundamentally a statistical hypothesis-testing problem, according to a technical post on Towards AI. The article explains that watermarking modifies token-generation prob…
A technical guide from Towards AI details how to configure the unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF model in Claude Code via Ollama, emphasizing that Ollama's default context is 4096 tokens and must be overridden…
Louis-François Bouchard, Co-founder & Head of Community at Towards AI, shared the engineering team's playbook for shipping reliable code with AI coding agents, recommending that important stochastic L…
A new analysis on Towards AI examines why large language models retain user names for roughly fifty messages before losing context entirely, revealing fundamental limitations in current AI memory arch…
Towards AI published a guide explaining the AI technology stack, covering Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agentic A…
A practical approach to unsupervised classification of IP-level network data is presented, using HDBSCAN and K-Means to distinguish consumer brands sharing an ASN. The method leverages DNS resolver IP…
A Towards AI investigation by Emmanuel Nwangura, running 833 tests across 6 AI models, found that a widely sold 'strict enforcement' fix for AI output constraints mostly fails in production, often wor…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) 2026-07-28 release removed 13 of its 31 methods, yet the schema grew by about 48% due to expanded documentation and required per-message envelope metadata that replace…
An educational article on Towards AI reinterprets matrices as tools for translating between different perceptions of space, using a story about giving directions to explain vectors and spanning vector…
Armin Norouzi, Ph.D., writing for Towards AI, proposes a four-layer evaluation stack to predict production quality of large language models, arguing that surface metrics like BLEU and ROUGE correlate …
Enzo Lombardi, in an article published on Towards AI, explains that real AI watermarking works by biasing a model's token sampling rather than hiding characters, and that detection relies on a z-score…
Chip Huyen's 'AI Engineering' and 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' are among the 10 books recommended for AI engineers in 2026, according to a newsletter by an unnamed author. The list also includ…
A 10-part AI Practical Series finale on Towards AI outlines a five-layer architecture for building an AI-powered 'Second Brain' for businesses, claiming the entire stack can run for under $60 per mont…
Towards AI co-founder Louis-François Bouchard warns that coding agents can speed up software development but only if used with proper context, tests, reviews, and task boundaries, cautioning against s…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has transitioned from a session-based, bidirectional connection model to a stateless request/response API, eliminating the Mcp-Session-Id and protocol-level sessions. …
A practical guide published on Towards AI outlines how freelancers and consultants can automate client onboarding, follow-ups, and proposals using AI, specifically Claude, to save 8+ hours per week an…