I Built an Ontology Firewall for Microsoft Copilot in 48 Hours — Here’s the Production Code
Author(s): Pankaj Kumar Originally published on Towards AI. Most Copilot deployments are one bad agent action away from a serious production failure. This is the architecture that prevents it. 📌 GitHub Repository: cloudbadal007/copilot-ontology-firewall The Copilot had read a SharePoint document titled “Pre-Approved …
Agent Control Patterns — Part 4: ReAct — Thinking While Acting
Author(s): Vahe Sahakyan Originally published on Towards AI. So far in this series, we designed systems with predefined structure. We defined the execution flow. We separated reasoning from revision. We controlled when research happens. Even when loops were introduced, the workflow remained …
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 …
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 …
The $4.99 Million Blind Spot: Why Chat May Be Your Best Security Layer
Author(s): Sergey Andreychenko Originally published on Towards AI. Your CTO has root access to production. Your DevOps engineer can delete your database. Your security lead knows every password. SOC2 won’t stop them. ISO27001 won’t stop them. Your $200K/year PAM solution won’t stop …
Cutting Batch Release from 14 Days to 3: A Case Study in Multi-Agent AI for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Author(s): Saif Ali Kheraj Originally published on Towards AI. How agentic AI architectures can compress decision cycles in regulated manufacturing with a practical implementation blueprint using CrewAI. Every contract pharmaceutical manufacturer faces the same operational bottleneck. After a medicine batch completes production …
The 4 AI Safety Alignment Approaches: How to Build AI That Won’t Lie, Harm, or Manipulate
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding RLHF, Constitutional AI, Red Teaming, and Value Learning You ask ChatGPT how to make a bomb. It refuses. You ask it to write a racist joke. It declines. You try jailbreaking it with …
GLM-5 Runs a Vending Machine Business for a Year and Finishes With $4,432
Author(s): Gowtham Boyina Originally published on Towards AI. That’s the Benchmark for Agentic Engineering I’ve tested dozens of coding assistants that can write functions, fix bugs, and refactor code. Most fail spectacularly when you ask them to complete multi-day projects — they …
The Generative AI Oligopoly: How Big Tech is Building “Old Moats” for the New Era (2024–2026)
Author(s): Wahidur Rahman Originally published on Towards AI. Is Generative AI Becoming a Big Tech Oligopoly? An In-Depth 2024–2026 Analysis The promise of artificial intelligence was supposed to democratize innovation. Instead, we’re witnessing the construction of the most capital-intensive moat in tech …
The 4 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods: How to Adapt LLMs 100× Faster
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. The 4 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods: How to Adapt LLMs 100× Faster You want to customize GPT-3 for customer service. Traditional fine-tuning requires updating 175 billion parameters — 350GB storage per variant, weeks of training, …