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2020-2025

Your holiday reading list: 12 books we loved this year

Subscribe • Previous Issues The Year in Print: 12 Books That Defined 2025 To mark the season, here are twelve non-fiction selections for the twelve days of Christmas. These are books we enjoyed and found worth passing along, ranging from deep dives into semiconductor history to fresh looks at creative collaboration. Whether you need a companion for a long-haul flight, a thoughtful…

“World Model” is a mess. Here’s how to make sense of it.

Subscribe • Previous Issues The World Model Minefield: A Guide for AI Teams The term “world model” has quickly migrated from research papers to the center of the artificial intelligence conversation, frequently cited in media coverage of next-gen AI. At a high level, the concept promises AI that does not merely predict the next word in a sentence but understands the underlying…

Are Your AI Agents Flying Blind in Production?

Subscribe • Previous Issues Beyond Black Boxes: A Guide to Observability for Agentic AI The core mindset shift for agentic systems is simple: observability isn’t an add-on, it’s a production prerequisite. Enterprises are unwilling to trust black-box agents; they expect to understand behavior, decision-making, and reasoning. This means architecting for visibility from the very first design doc and building a culture where…

The Rise of the Multimodal Lakehouse

Subscribe • Previous Issues Multimodal lakehouses: The architecture AI teams are migrating to When the “lakehouse” was first introduced in 2020, the goal was to reconcile data warehouses and data lakes in a single architecture: open formats on cheap object storage, with ACID transactions, schema enforcement, governance, BI support, and streaming built in. The promise was simple: one system for SQL analytics,…

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