Making agents dull

I’ve been arguing for a while now that enterprise AI won’t really take off until it gets boring. Not boring in the sense of uninspired; no, I mean boring in the sense that enterprises can trust it, govern it, observe it, and hand it to rank-and-file employees without...

Oracle delivers semantic search without LLMs

Oracle says its new Trusted Answer Search can deliver reliable results at scale in the enterprise by scouring a governed set of approved documents using vector search instead of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Available for...

Exciting Python features are on the way

Transformative new Python features are coming in Python 3.15. In addition to lazy imports and an immutable frozendict type, the new Python release will deliver significant improvements to the native JIT compiler and introduce a more explicit agenda for how Python will...