Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower cost than frontier models.

Agent skills shift AI agents toward procedural tasks with skill.md steps; progressive disclosure reduces context window bloat in real use.

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.

A 2025 study shows that an AI-based tutor improves learning when it prompts reasoning and is paired with peer discussion.

Library Futures Academy, an open-source retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline is being developed using historic newspapers held in the archives. This combined with optical character ...

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The architects of AI have been recognized as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2025, symbolizing AI’s sweeping influence on global industries. AI-driven technologies, including generative AI ...

LONDON – On a more than typically busy Thursday morning in Soho, the gray December sky spat rain. Traffic was stop-and-go, but mainly stop. Even the sidewalks were congested. Finally, alongside the ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

If there is one point of consensus among the CES 2026 keynote speakers, it is that AI is reshaping technology with a speed and scale unlike any previous technological revolution. In a live taping on ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

U.S. Army Gen. James J. Mingus speaks with soldiers assigned to the Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, July 2024. (Spc. Rebeca Soria/Army) The Army on Tuesday announced that it is standing up ...