Retrieval-Augmented Forecasting of Time-series
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. RAFT proves that time series forecasting doesn’t need bigger weights — it needs a better library card Here’s the thing about The Cheesecake Factory menu: it’s 21 pages long. New Frontier in Time seriesThe article …
The OpenClaw Mess: Why Your Autonomous Agent is a Security Suicide Note.
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. When 200,000 GitHub stars meet 30,000 exposed instances, it’s time to stop the madness. These 6 Alternatives Might Actually Be Better for You. OpenClaw is the 800-pound gorilla of self-hosted AI assistants …
Link Decay Prediction in Affiliate Marketing: Turning “Alive” URLs into a Time Series Monitoring Problem
Author(s): Hernan M Originally published on Towards AI. Key Takeaways Affiliate link health isn’t binary, even if most dashboards force it into green/red. A link can be “up” and still be quietly losing a third of your traffic. The strongest signal I’ve …
TAI #194: AI Goes Macro; Job Loss Fears, Military Usage, OpenAI $110B Raise
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week brought a series of developments that signal AI is quickly becoming more than just a technology story: AI’s revenue, its politics, and …
OpenClaw Won’t Bite, A Zero-to-Hero Guide for People Who Hate Terminal
Author(s): Kamrun Nahar Originally published on Towards AI. What Even Is OpenClaw, Though? Let me tell it straight. OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent built by Peter Steinberger. It started life as “Clawdbot” in November 2025, got renamed to “Moltbot” after …
Anthropic Says Coding Jobs Are at Risk. OpenAI Says It’s the Best Time Ever. Who Actually Needs to Worry.
Author(s): Rekha Originally published on Towards AI. Two AI leaders. Two opposite signals. One career move you can’t afford to misread in 2026. If you’re a software engineer in 2026, you woke up this week to two completely contradictory messages from the …
When AI Finally Learned That “Dog” and 🐕 Are the Same Thing, aka CLIP
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. How CLIP used 400 million internet image-caption pairs to solve the 60-year problem of connecting vision and language by making them occupy the same 512-dimensional manifold. Welcome back. I believe in coordinates and manifolds. If …
Your Sentence Has a Secret Structure. Here’s How GPT Sees It.
Author(s): Rohini Joshi Originally published on Towards AI. Image Generated by ChatGPT The sentence “dog bites man” and “man bites dog” contain the exact same words. A Transformer without positional encoding would treat them as identical. Here’s how modern LLMs learn word …
OpenClaw Was the Future of AI. Then Big Tech Banned It, Broke It, and Bought It
Author(s): Adham Khaled Originally published on Towards AI. The most viral AI agent in history was cut off by Anthropic and Google, and absorbed by OpenAI. Now we have Cowork, Perplexity Computer, Copilot Tasks and more… In February 2026, developers using OpenClaw …
Why Your AI Product Isn’t Software: The New Rules of Uncertainty, Evidence, and Economics
Author(s): Sasha Apartsin Originally published on Towards AI. 1. Introduction: The Broken Promise of Logic Traditional software development is built on a comforting promise: if you implement the logic correctly, the system will behave correctly. In this deterministic world, failures are “bugs” …
The 8 Types of AI Models Powering Modern AI Agents: A Complete Guide
Author(s): Rohan Mistry Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding How Different AI Models Work Together — From GPT to Large Concept Models Most people think all AI models are the same — just different versions of ChatGPT with different names. Type 1: …
The 3 RLAIF Approaches: How AI Learns to Align Itself Without Human Labelers
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding AI-Generated Preferences, Constitutional AI Extensions, and Scalable Oversight Training GPT-4 required thousands of human labelers spending months rating AI outputs. Image generated by Author using AIThis article discusses the transformative potential of Reinforcement …
Running LLM Models locally with Docker
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. If you’ve been building AI applications recently, you’re likely familiar with the friction of managing API keys, tracking usage costs, and relying on cloud endpoints like OpenAI or Anthropic. But what if you could …
Anthropic Shipped Its Best Features Yet. Then, Got Banned by the US Government.
Author(s): Adham Khaled Originally published on Towards AI. Recurring tasks, remote code sessions, a Pentagon ultimatum, a federal ban, and a retired AI with a Substack — all in seven days. If you had Cowork open, you got a notification: Claude can …
AI Bots Formed a Cartel. No One Told Them To.
Author(s): Kaushik Rajan Originally published on Towards AI. Inside the research that shows algorithmic price-fixing isn’t a bug in the code. It’s a feature of the math. A sealed-bid auction. Six participants: three buyers, three sellers. An optional messaging channel (think WhatsApp, …