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 …
Do AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md Files Help Coding Agents? A New Paper Challenges this
Author(s): Youssef Hosni Originally published on Towards AI. Do AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md Files Help Coding Agents? A New Paper Challenges this Over the past year, adding an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file to your coding repository has quietly become standard practice when using the coding …
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 …
Runtime Reinforcement: Preventing “Instruction Decay” in Long Context Windows
Author(s): Shreyash Shukla Originally published on Towards AI. Image Source: Google Gemini The “Floating Brain” Problem In our previous articles, we discussed how to give the agent knowledge (Graph), sight (Shape), and empathy (User Context). But even a perfect agent suffers from …
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 …
Essential Python Libraries for Data Science
Author(s): Raj kumar Originally published on Towards AI. If you look closely at real-world tabular machine learning systems, a clear pattern emerges. Across industries, datasets, and problem domains, the same class of models keeps appearing in production environments. It is not deep …
Essential Python Libraries for Data Science
Author(s): Raj kumar Originally published on Towards AI. In Part 1, we focused on how data is represented, transformed, and computed using NumPy and Pandas. By the end of that part, the dataset was clean, structured, and numerically stable. In Part 2, …
Essential Python Libraries for Data Science
Author(s): Raj kumar Originally published on Towards AI. In Part 1, we built the foundations of the data pipeline. We loaded a real dataset, structured it using Pandas, selected relevant features, and performed numerical transformations using NumPy. By the end of Step …
What If I Told You the Most Powerful Algorithm in Statistics Is Just… Guessing?
Author(s): Kamrun Nahar Originally published on Towards AI. I stared at the Wikipedia page for MCMC for forty-five minutes. The page had seventeen Greek letters in the first paragraph. I understood exactly zero of them. Three years later, I can tell you …
You’re Not Bad at AI. You’re Bad at Asking.
Author(s): Nagaraj Originally published on Towards AI. Stop blaming the model and start fixing your requests. You copied a prompt from Twitter. The method worked flawlessly for other people. Your results showed unclear communication which didn’t match your expected tone and proved …
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 …
What RAGAS Doesn’t Tell You — RAG Evaluation From Scratch With Ollama
Author(s): Vikram Bhat Originally published on Towards AI. Evaluating a RAG Pipeline From Scratch — No RAGAS, No OpenAI, Fully Local How to build a reusable RAG evaluator using Ollama and LLM-as-judge that actually tells you where your pipeline breaks Rag Evaluation …