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Why Are Experts Declaring RAG Dead in the Face of the Agentic AI Wave?

The debate is not about the death of RAG as a concept but about the obsolescence of its naive version, a linear pipeline of retrieve-then-stuff-into-context-then-answer without verification.

SLMsJuly 28, 2026

You've Probably Never Heard of Them: How "Small Language Models" (SLMs) Are Set to Change the Rules on Your Phone

Small Language Models (SLMs) typically have anywhere from a few million to about 7 billion parameters and run locally on phones thanks to quantization and Neural Processing Units (NPUs), without needing an internet connection.

AI EconomicsJuly 28, 2026

For CFOs and CTOs: How Tokens Quietly Eat Your Company's Budget

Language model spend is billed by consumption rather than by seat, so it grows with every feature release and never passes through the usual procurement cycle.

شاشة رقمية تعرض عدّاد توكنز متدفق مع ميزان يوازن بين تسعير النماذج وميزانية الشركة

All articlesJuly 28, 2026

The Trillion-Dollar Ambition: How Saudi Arabia Is Building the World's New AI Capital

Humain, owned by Saudi Arabia's $941.3 billion Public Investment Fund and chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is leading a plan to reach 6 gigawatts of AI data center capacity by 2034 with tens of billions of dollars in investment.

All articlesJuly 28, 2026

What Is a Vector Database, and Why Do AI Applications Need One?

Vector databases store data as numerical "embeddings" and use similarity search to find related information by meaning, something traditional exact-match databases cannot do well, according to industry guides.

LLMsJuly 28, 2026

OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Health to All U.S. Adults, But Free Users Get a Weaker Model

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Health to all U.S. adults on July 23, 2026, across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers on web and iOS

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LLMsJuly 28, 2026

Claude Opus 5 Quadruples the Toughest AI Reasoning Score, and Does It Cheaper Than Rivals

Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3, nearly quadrupling the prior record of 7.8% held by GPT-5.6 Sol.

All articlesJuly 28, 2026

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? Why Companies Prefer It Over Retraining AI Models

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lets an AI model search a company's current documents and data at the moment of a question, instead of relying only on fixed knowledge from training.

All articlesJuly 27, 2026

G42 and Microsoft Deepen AI Partnership With New Agent-Sharing Tool for Gulf Governments

G42's Inception42 unit and Microsoft have linked their Catalyst and Copilot platforms so that AI agents built on either system can run interchangeably across both.

All articlesJuly 27, 2026

Token Economics: How Companies Calculate the Real Cost of Running AI Apps and Avoid Scaling Cost Shocks

The basic unit of cost: Tokens are not just words but the 'financial fuel' of generative applications, and ignoring the gap between Input price and Output price is the leading cause of budget shocks.

All articlesJuly 27, 2026

No Programmer, No Code: How to Build a Complete App Just by "Chatting"

Conversational programming (Vibe Coding) is a radical shift that lets anyone build complete applications using clear language, without writing code commands or hiring development teams.

AI AgentsJuly 27, 2026

Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus Back Computer-Use Startup Prentis in Talks for $100M at $1B Valuation

Prentis, a computer-use AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, and CEO Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation just three months after launch.

All articlesJuly 27, 2026

Why Artificial Intelligence Has Become Central to Daily Life and Work

AI has become deeply embedded in everyday tools like search engines, navigation apps, and virtual assistants, often without users noticing.

LLMsJuly 27, 2026

How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Keeps LLMs Grounded in Real Data

RAG pairs an LLM with an external knowledge source, retrieving relevant data at query time instead of relying only on frozen training data

LLMsJuly 27, 2026

Meta AI Pivots to Productivity, Betting on Calendars and Daily Briefings Over Fun and Games

Meta AI is rolling out calendar integration, daily briefings, and deeper research tools starting today in select markets, with WhatsApp support coming later.

All articlesJuly 27, 2026

OpenAI's Latest Model Release: What We Know About the New GPT Update

OpenAI appears to have released a new iteration of its model lineup, though exact version details should be verified against official sources.

LLMsJuly 27, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Matches Fable 5 at Half the Cost, Keeps Opus 4.8 Pricing Intact

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, replacing Opus 4.8 as its flagship model with unchanged pricing of $5/million input and $25/million output tokens

Developer ToolsJuly 27, 2026

Datalab's Marker 2 Rewrite Claims 5x Throughput Lead Over MinerU in Document Parsing

Datalab released Marker 2 on July 21, 2026, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline built around Surya OCR 2, a 20M-parameter layout model, and a 3x faster pdftext engine.

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