In practice, retrieval is a system with its own failure modes, its own latency budget and its own quality requirements.

Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models ...

The current conversation around generative and agentic AI tools is missing the point. We’re treating multi-model orchestration – task routing across different foundation models – as if it solves the ...