LAI #74: Smarter Prompts, Context-Aware Agents, and the Math Behind KANs
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Want to start this week’s issue with a quick announcement: the enrollment for the next “From Beginner to Advanced LLM Developer” cohort is open right now — and …
Why YouTube Music’s Recommendations Don’t Work — and How Spotify’s Quantum AI Improves Hits by 67%
Author(s): Subhadip Saha Originally published on Towards AI. Why settle for boring playlists? Spotify’s new Quantum AI makes music suggestions way better, so it feels like every song was picked just for you. Music streaming has changed how we find songs. Both …
TAI #151: ChatGPT’s Sycophancy Saga & OpenAI’s Nonprofit Reversal
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie After a relentless streak of model releases, this week gave the AI community a rare opportunity to pause and consider deeper alignment and governance …
How GraphRAG Works Step-by-Step
Author(s): Mariana Avelino Originally published on Towards AI. Perhaps you’ve come across the paper From Local to Global: A GraphRAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization, which is Microsoft Research’s take on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using knowledge graphs. Perhaps, you felt like some …
Data Storytelling Guide: Turn Numbers into Insights
Author(s): Noro Chalise Originally published on Towards AI. 1. Introduction Have you ever looked at a spreadsheet filled with numbers and felt completely lost? The information is there, but it does not say anything clearly. There is no message, no insight, and …
Unpacking Meta’s Llama 4: Revolutionary Native Multimodality and Groundbreaking Architecture
Author(s): hallucinatingkitten Originally published on Towards AI. Meta AI has unveiled Llama 4, the latest iteration of its open large language models, marking a substantial breakthrough with native multimodality at its core. More than just an incremental upgrade, Llama 4 redefines the …
Surviving Vibe Coding: Strategies for Staying Productive
Author(s): Kelvin Lu Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Shawn on Unsplash The rise of vibe coding has sparked heated debates in developer communities. Coined by OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy, this concept promises a future where developers “drive development in natural language” …
Surviving Vibe Coding: Strategies for Staying Productive
Author(s): Kelvin Lu Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Shawn on Unsplash The rise of vibe coding has sparked heated debates in developer communities. Coined by OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy, this concept promises a future where developers “drive development in natural language” …
DNNs vs Traditional Tree-Based Models for E-Commerce Ranking
Author(s): Nikhilesh Pandey Originally published on Towards AI. Image source : author Context Having spent nearly a decade building and optimizing advertising systems at Meta, I’ve seen firsthand how the online advertising ecosystem has evolved — from basic impression-based strategies to today’s …
🚀 Beyond Text: Building Multimodal RAG Systems with Cohere and Gemini
Author(s): sridhar sampath Originally published on Towards AI. 🚀 Beyond Text: Building Multimodal RAG Systems with Cohere and Gemini TL;DR Traditional RAG fails on visual data. This project uses Cohere’s multimodal embeddings + Gemini 2.5 Flash to build a RAG system that …