Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower cost than frontier models.

Agent skills shift AI agents toward procedural tasks with skill.md steps; progressive disclosure reduces context window bloat in real use.

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.

A 2025 study shows that an AI-based tutor improves learning when it prompts reasoning and is paired with peer discussion.

Library Futures Academy, an open-source retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline is being developed using historic newspapers held in the archives. This combined with optical character ...

AI-savvy graduates aren’t just future-proofing their careers—they’re landing some of the highest starting salaries in tech Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over ...

Fluence Energy's industrial-scale battery systems deliver the clean, stable power that AI data centers require. Credo Technology's high-speed copper cables match fiber-optic performance at a fraction ...

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AI may learn better when it’s allowed to talk to itself. Researchers showed that internal “mumbling,” combined with short-term memory, helps AI adapt to new tasks, switch goals, and handle complex ...

In the race to bring artificial intelligence into the enterprise, a small but well-funded startup is making a bold claim: The problem holding back AI adoption in complex industries has never been the ...

Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system.

The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal ...