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Six months into the Iran war, a new Gulf security architecture is emerging
Six months into the war with Iran, it is worth taking stock of what has actually changed around the Gulf. After Iran's June 2025 missile strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, I argued that the years ahead would be more perilous for the Gulf and…
This viral Instagram is putting the architecture of a small Herefordshire town on the map
If you don't know how to pronounce Leominster, the historic market town in Herefordshire, England, you'd be forgiven. It's pronounced Lem-ster, a fact that swiftly differentiates out-of-towners from locals. Another thing you might not know? That…
Architectural Breakdown: Building Next-Gen Agentic Architectures: From Local RAG to Sandboxed Execut
The 3 AM production fire revealed a harsh truth: modern agentic systems often collapse under their own weight. A single agent processing 10K RAG queries OOM-killed an 8GB cloud instance. The culprit was not the workload but the infrastructure:…
Design, Optimization, and Deployment of a Hybrid Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Agentic-RAG) Architecture
Traditional RAG pipelines usually work deterministically by using only static vector search[cite: 1]. Because of this, vocabulary mismatches can occur when searching for exact words or technical keywords, and the agent may be unable to verify…
FAU researchers develop quantum framework to predict heart disease
Cardiovascular disease remains a major global health challenge, causing millions of deaths each year and imposing substantial healthcare costs. Early, accurate diagnosis is critical for improving outcomes and enabling timely intervention. While…
Life in 'quintessential' North York Moors market down with a 'villagey feel
Locals have spoken about life in a “quintessential market down” in the North York Moors. The bustling town of Helmsley is located on the southern edge of the moors, and has been described as a “gateway” town to the…
New AI uses a fresh approach to reasoning that's potentially much cheaper
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model used a novel approach to AI cognition to dramatically reduce the cost of requests, suggesting that nonverbal reasoning may be the next step toward machines developing human-like intelligence. In a new…
AI learns to model motion more intelligently: New framework improves 3D reconstruction of complex dynamic scenes
One of the challenges facing artificial intelligence is teaching machines to understand a world that is constantly moving. From self-driving cars navigating busy streets to digital twins replicating factories in real time, AI systems need accurate…
The best towns and cities for a holiday in Brazil 2026
It does not come as a shock to find that the largest country in South America, and the fifth largest in the world, has natural beauty that rivals almost any other nation – but travellers shouldn't overlook the towns and cities that…
Will You Shape AI Or Will AI Shape You?
Portrait of futuristic woman with colored metal cubes in the face. Concept of technological advancement. In my recent article on AI, some readers told me I was being too harsh. Others said I was not being harsh enough. A handful wrote to say the…
Keeping China Out Of The Cloud Cookie Jar
Asia map series with China, old paper, with flag There are new headlines, primarily from The Information, that the Trump administration is hard at work trying to figure out how to legislate bans on the rental of GPU compute to China from places…
Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few…
Inside one of Greater Manchester's most expensive homes with pool and cinema
There are some beautiful properties up for grabs across Greater Manchester, but this sprawling six-bed house in Trafford is amongst the priciest. Out of 13,010 homes currently up for sale on Zoopla, it is one of the most expensive you can buy with…
Architecting the Data Layer for AI Agents: From Transactional Systems to MCP and Semantic Models
Fabiane Nardon: My name is Fabiane. I work for TOTVS. TOTVS is probably the biggest tech company you never heard of. This company has been building enterprise systems for the last 40 years in Brazil: SaaS, on-premise, everything in between. About a…
Lunar Cavern by Studio Khoa Vu is inspired by the dark side of the moon
Operating between the United States and Vietnam, Studio Khoa Vu is a young practice that makes it into the Wallpaper* Architects' Directory 2026, our latest annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Architect Khoa Vu founded his…
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