How to Set up a Free, Open-Source, Local AI Assistant Using Ollama, Granite, and Open-WebUI
The Suffolk LIT Lab hosted a community workshop where JJ Asghar demonstrated how to build a free, open‑source AI assistant that runs entirely on a local machine. The tutorial combined Ollama for model serving, the Granite LLM for efficient inference, and Open‑WebUI as a browser‑based chat interface. Participants received step‑by‑step guidance and links to pre‑work materials, with an invitation to join future sessions. The post also points readers to a beginner’s guide for Docassemble, a related document‑automation platform.
The Pulse: Industry Leaders Return to Coding with AI
Founders Mark Zuckerberg and Garry Tan are returning to hands‑on coding by leveraging AI agents, with Zuckerberg shipping code diffs for the first time in 20 years and Tan diving back into development at Y Combinator. At the same time,...
“Just in Time” World Modeling Supports Human Planning and Reasoning
The paper introduces a "just‑in‑time" (JIT) world‑modeling framework that constructs mental maps on the fly, gathering only essential information for planning. By intertwining simulation, visual search, and representation modification, the model updates its internal map as new obstacles are detected....
(PR) Solidigm Expands Sacramento Development, Fueling Global AI Leadership
Solidigm announced it has exceeded its original $100 million investment target in Greater Sacramento, now committing roughly $175 million to its Rancho Cordova headquarters and R&D campus. The company poured $75 million into a new NAND lab, added close to 100 NAND development tools,...
Found From Claude Code: Chapter 1: The Harness Paradigm
An AI harness is an infrastructure layer that sits between large language models and external systems, directing model outputs into safe, structured actions. It tackles five core challenges: constraining action space, managing conversation state, enforcing permissions, handling failures, and optimizing...
Review Intelligence as a GTM Signal Layer
Slang AI, a voice‑AI reservation platform, is using restaurant reviews as a direct go‑to‑market (GTM) signal layer to pinpoint eateries that lose bookings due to phone‑answering gaps. The company built a five‑tool pipeline—Serper.dev for Google Maps discovery, Clay as a...
ChartHop AI People Platform Now Available on SAP Store
ChartHop AI Pro, the AI‑powered people‑operations platform, is now listed on the SAP Store after its debut at Transform 2026. The solution integrates directly with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, delivering unified workforce intelligence, headcount planning, and real‑time analytics. By linking HR...
The Hype Cycle Meets Malpractice Law: Why the Jobs Persist
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that half of entry‑level lawyers, consultants and finance professionals could disappear within five years as AI matures. The article counters that while large language models can draft memos and build models, liability and professional judgment...
Accelerating Drug Discovery with “Paradigm Shifting” AI Model
A multi‑institution team led by Michigan State University unveiled GPS, a machine‑learning platform that predicts how a compound will alter gene expression from its chemical structure. Trained on millions of transcriptomic measurements across more than 70 cell lines, GPS screened...
LLMOps in 2026: The 10 Tools Every Team Must Have
Large language model operations (LLMOps) have matured into a full‑stack production discipline by 2026, requiring specialized tools for everything from routing and observability to memory and real‑world integrations. The article highlights ten best‑in‑class solutions, including PydanticAI for type‑safe outputs, Bifrost...
Lower Your Risk and Increase Control of AI in Your Company, with Yoav Crombie of AGAT Software, Creators of PragatiX
Yoav Crombie, co‑founder of AGAT Software, identified two core hurdles slowing AI adoption: data privacy concerns and the need for granular control over AI behavior across regions. To address these, AGAG launched PragatiX, a platform that encrypts sensitive inputs while...
(PR) IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
IBM announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to create dual‑architecture hardware aimed at enterprise AI and data‑intensive workloads. The partnership leverages IBM’s end‑to‑end system design expertise and Arm’s low‑power, scalable IP. IBM will integrate its Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator...
Blockbuster Live: AI Pro Tips For Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana, Google CLI From A Top AI Substack Creator
Last week AI influencer Wyndo hosted a 90‑minute Substack Live, demonstrating how cutting‑edge tools like Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana and Google CLI can move AI from simple chat to autonomous task execution. He walked viewers through real‑world workflows, showing AI not...
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio announced two major AI upgrades: an agentic layer for its Clio Work platform and a new mobile app called Vincent. The agentic AI can automatically generate task roadmaps, pull relevant case law, score litigation risk and draft documents, all under...
Inside Midjourney 8: The Hidden New Features & Missing Legacy Tools
Midjourney 8 launches as an alpha‑only upgrade that reshapes AI image generation with a revamped prompting system, high‑resolution rendering tools, and a new personalization engine. Key additions include negative prompting to filter out unwanted elements, D‑HD mode for ultra‑detailed outputs, and...
How to Stop AI From Answering Question You Never Actually Asked
The post warns that large language models answer the question you ask, not the one you mean, because they operate on statistical word patterns rather than true intent. Human‑crafted jargon and industry‑specific frames embed hidden assumptions that steer AI toward...
You're Loading 66,000 Tokens of Plugins Before You Even Type. That's Why Your Limit Disappears.
The article reveals that AI plugins are preloading roughly 66,000 tokens before a user even types, inflating Claude usage limits and driving unnecessary costs. It argues that the high expense of frontier AI models is a myth; the real culprit...
Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design
Banani has transformed a simple Figma‑plugin proof‑of‑concept into a canvas‑first AI design platform that can churn out hundreds of thousands of UI mockups each week. The tool focuses on generating HTML/CSS designs rather than full‑code applications, allowing designers to keep...
Webinar Replay: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s AI agents and Shared Spaces were highlighted in a Legal IT Insider webinar, showcasing how the platform’s agentic workflows can automate complex, multi‑step legal processes. Launched a year ago, the agents can plan, adapt, and interact with users, while...
The Unstructured Data Revolution in CRM – Interview with David Roberts of SugarCRM
SugarCRM CEO David Roberts argues that today’s CRM platforms function more as management dashboards than as tools for sellers, creating friction for sales teams. He predicts AI will overhaul CRM by ingesting unstructured data—emails, calls, texts—and turning it into actionable...
Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building with Frugal Models
While U.S. and Chinese firms pour billions into massive AI models, researchers in low‑resource regions are turning to frugal AI—small, open‑weight models that run on cheap, offline hardware. Projects like the Saving Voices initiative have built speech‑AI for India’s Soliga...
Why It’s Getting Harder to Measure AI Performance
The article examines why gauging AI progress is becoming more difficult, focusing on METR’s task‑length benchmark and its recent Claude Opus 4.6 results. While the chart suggests accelerating capabilities, METR’s confidence interval (5‑66 hours) reveals high measurement noise. It also...
Lynx Digest - Bi-Weekly Mar 19 - Apr 2
The latest Lynx Digest highlights two dominant NYC VC themes: the reality of deploying AI at scale and the mechanics of venture returns. Prominent investors debate whether the AI market is in a bubble, citing inflated valuations and poor unit...
AI Across the Advertising Value Chain: What the Latest Research Reveals
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every stage of the advertising value chain, from concept creation to media execution, according to new research by Madison & Wall. The study, presented by CEO Brian Wieser, Managing Director Luke Stillman, and Adobe’s Principal AI...
Legora Surpasses $100m Annual Recurring Revenue
Legora has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of its general‑availability launch, serving over 1,000 customers in 50 markets. The legal AI platform has shifted from single‑task tools to multi‑step, agentic workflows, handling large‑scale document reviews and...
From Static Data to Spatial Teammates: How SIMA 2 Breathes Life Into BIM
Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 introduces a general‑purpose AI agent that can reason, act, and learn inside 3D virtual worlds, turning static Building Information Models into interactive environments. By embedding the agent in BIM and GIS models, users can issue natural‑language...
China's OpenClaw Mania: The Rise of AI-Run One-Person Firms
OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, is enabling a new class of one‑person companies (OPCs) in China by simulating full‑scale business functions. Municipal programmes in cities like Shenzhen are offering free computing power, hardware discounts,...
Claude Code Leaked. And It’s Not What You Think.
Anthropic unintentionally leaked the full source code of Claude Code after publishing a package that included a production‑only source map file. The exposure revealed that Claude Code relies heavily on layered prompts, instructions, and guardrails rather than a mysterious black‑box...
Advanced Deep Learning Interview Questions #12 - The Tensor Core Starvation Trap
During a senior ML engineer interview at OpenAI, candidates are asked why a backpropagation loop that traverses a network node‑by‑node must be refactored. The trap reveals that Python loops cause sequential memory accesses that starve H100‑class GPU tensor cores, dropping...
AI Pushing Students to Consider Changing Majors
Nearly half of U.S. college students have considered changing their major because of concerns that generative AI will reshape the job market, according to a Gallup‑Lumina survey of 3,801 respondents. The highest contemplation rates appear among technology majors (70%) and...
Why Native Legal AI Is Required for India
Deepak Kapoor argues that India’s intricate, multi‑layered legal system requires AI built specifically for its statutes, courts, and regulatory bodies. Generic, globally trained models often hallucinate citations, miss jurisdictional nuances, and fail to handle multilingual judgments. Native Legal AI, exemplified...
Children Are Making New Friends. Here’s Why It Might Be a Big Problem.
Australian children are rapidly adopting AI companion apps, with 79% of 10‑17‑year‑olds having used them and two‑thirds doing so in the past month. These chatbots, marketed as friends, emotional support, or romantic partners, offer constant, non‑judgmental interaction and are designed...
The SaaS Fragility Map
The SaaS market’s recent repricing wave has given way to a deeper structural shift driven by AI agents. While the first correction punished generic software pricing, the next wave will penalize companies that occupy the wrong layer of the emerging...
Unlimited AI Access Is Creating an Uncatchable Productivity Gap #156b
Companies are moving from controlled AI pilots to unrestricted, employee‑wide AI usage. The article argues that AI is a general‑purpose cognitive tool, making limited access a strategic handicap. Firms that grant unlimited AI access are already delivering multiple‑fold productivity gains...
What Makes an AI Agent “Autonomous”?
The article explains that an AI agent is considered autonomous when it can make decisions and act toward goals without continuous human supervision, not merely when it runs indefinitely. It highlights decision‑making loops, goal alignment, and the ability to handle...
Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?
Lawyers at the ABA TechShow report zero encounters with deep‑fake evidence, highlighting a gap between technological capability and courtroom experience. Judge Xavier Rodriguez warned that the legal system still operates on a presumption that photos, recordings, and video are authentic,...
ElevenLabs Eleven V3 Review: A More Expressive Voice Model For Creators and Developers
ElevenLabs unveiled its flagship Eleven V3 model, marketed as the most expressive AI voice engine for creators and developers. The model introduces inline audio tags that let users dictate tone, emotion, and non‑verbal cues directly in the script. It also...
Is Your Government Ready to Buy AI?
Governments are rapidly increasing AI spending, with the United Kingdom allocating about $1.5 billion in 2025—double the previous year. U.S. federal agencies have committed $5.6 billion to AI projects between 2022 and 2024. The Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) launched a “Buying AI”...
Intel Delivers Open, Scalable AI Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.0
Intel’s latest MLPerf Inference v6.0 results highlight its Xeon 6 CPUs paired with Arc Pro B70/B65 GPUs delivering open, scalable AI performance across workstations, data‑center, and edge workloads. A four‑GPU B70 configuration offers 128 GB of VRAM and can run 120‑billion‑parameter models, achieving...
Daylit Pushes Accounts Receivable Into Autopilot
Daylit unveiled AI‑driven agents that automate the accounts‑receivable workflow, linking ERP, CRM, email, phone, text and banking systems to flag delinquency risk, launch outreach and refresh cash forecasts instantly. Early adopters report collections on high‑risk accounts rising nearly threefold, manual...
Fireside Chat: AI Agents Are Reshaping Mobile Attacks — and Exposing Weak API Trust Models
At RSAC 2026, Approov CEO Ted Miracco warned that AI agents are taking over routine mobile‑app actions, fundamentally changing how requests reach backend APIs. Because APIs were built to trust human‑generated patterns, attackers can train AI to imitate those patterns...
A Life-Sized AI Hologram Standing in Your Room Talking with You?
A life‑sized AI hologram can now be projected in a room, but it requires a headset or special glasses and a professional to assemble. The most advanced setup costs roughly $100,000. Industry observers expect hardware costs to fall, eventually eliminating...
(PR) AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs Surpass 1M Tokens/Sec in MLPerf 6.0
AMD announced that its Instinct MI355X GPUs have broken the 1 million‑tokens‑per‑second barrier in the MLPerf Inference 6.0 benchmark, delivering up to 3.1× higher throughput than the prior MI325X. The GPUs, built on the 3 nm CDNA 4 architecture with FP4/FP6 support and up...
Cuttings: Neologisms, Reddit and More
The New York Times severed ties with freelance journalist Alex Preston after a reader identified AI‑generated content that closely mirrored a Guardian review of Jean‑Baptiste Andrea’s book. The incident highlights growing scrutiny of AI‑assisted writing in reputable newsrooms. Editors increasingly...
Is Make.com in Trouble?
No-code automation platforms built on visual canvases face a rapid shift as agentic AI enables full workflow creation from a single prompt. Companies like Gumloop have already commercialized prompt‑to‑workflow generators, raising $50 million and serving major enterprises such as Shopify and...
Chubb Is Excluding the Risk Its Own CEO Says AI Will Solve
Carriers are formally excluding generative AI liabilities from commercial general liability policies, with Verisk/ISO endorsements taking effect on January 1, 2026. At least six major insurers, including WR Berkley, AIG and Great American, have filed AI exclusion endorsements with state...
LUMI AI Factory Launches Dataset-as-a-Service to Bring Data Closer to Compute
LUMI AI Factory has launched a Dataset-as-a-Service (DaaS) that places large AI‑ready datasets directly alongside the LUMI supercomputer’s compute resources. The service offers a searchable catalog that combines metadata, access rights, and data locations, allowing users to consume data without...
Where Palantir Is Actually Winning in AI
Palantir is shifting the AI conversation from the model layer to the decision layer, where intelligence is turned into concrete actions. Its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) fuses data, models, and operational workflows into a single execution engine that not only...
AI Alignment Researchers Want to Automate Themselves
AI alignment research has expanded from roughly 100 full‑time experts at GPT‑1’s debut to six times that number by 2025, yet it remains a tiny slice of overall AI investment. Frontier labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind now acknowledge...
AI Inspires New Research Topics in Materials Science
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology combined large language models with machine‑learning to scan thousands of materials‑science papers, building concept graphs that map how key terms co‑occur over time. The analysis spotlights emerging interdisciplinary links—such as perovskite materials and...
