How ZDNET Tests AI: A Hands‑On Framework for Evaluating LLMs, AI Agents, and Automation
How ZDNET Tests AI: A Hands‑On Framework for Evaluating LLMs, AI Agents, and AI Automation Executive summary Every review starts with real-world use: vendor claims and press-release numbers don’t replace hands-on testing for LLM testing, AI agents, or AI automation tools. Two complementary tracks deliver value: standardized comparative reviews for apples‑to‑apples scoring, and long‑form “living […]
AI’s $670B Boom: Software Winners, Hardware Shortages, and the Rise of AI Agents
How the $670B AI Boom Is Making Software Riches — and Hardware Headaches If you’re a CFO, CMO or CTO, here’s the short version: massive AI infrastructure spending is turning software-first companies into near-term winners while squeezing hardware suppliers and device makers with scarce memory, GPUs and server parts. That split is reshaping competitive advantage […]
Agentic UI for AI Agents: Generative A2UI, JSON Patch State Sync, and Interrupt-Driven Approvals
A Coding Deep Dive into Agentic UI, Generative UI, State Synchronization, and Interrupt-Driven Approval Flows TL;DR: Problem: product teams spend too much time wiring UIs to AI-driven workflows. Solution: treat the LLM as an agent that emits a declarative UI spec (A2UI), stream events (SSE/WebSocket), and synchronize state with compact JSON Patch deltas. Value: faster […]
Nearly Half of UK Candidates Face AI Interviews; 30% Abandon Applications
When AI Becomes the Interviewer: Why Nearly Half of UK Candidates Walk Away TL;DR Nearly half of UK jobseekers (47%) have experienced AI interviews; about 30% abandoned applications because of them (Greenhouse survey of 2,950 active job hunters; 1,132 UK respondents). Common formats are one‑way video prompts with timed answers; candidates call them impersonal, awkward […]
Musk v. Altman, Mass Layoffs, Hollowed DOJ: How AI Governance, Jobs & Enforcement Converge
Musk v. Altman, Mass Layoffs, and a Hollowed-Out DOJ: Why AI Governance, Jobs, and Enforcement Now Intersect TL;DR Three linked developments are reshaping corporate risk: the Musk v. Altman trial that challenges OpenAI governance and funding models; major tech layoffs even as companies pump capital into AI infrastructure; and a rapid remaking of the DOJ […]
Agentic AI Analytics: Amazon QuickSight + Athena over a Metadata-First Lakehouse
Unleashing agentic AI analytics with Amazon QuickSight, Athena and a metadata‑first lakehouse TL;DR — Combine a metadata‑first lakehouse (Amazon S3 + Apache Iceberg + AWS Glue Data Catalog) with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight (with Amazon Q) to give business users conversational, agentic AI access to governed analytics and domain context. Prototype on a reproducible […]
Model Agility Playbook: How to Migrate LLMs Without Breaking Production
How to Migrate LLMs Without Breaking Production — A Model Agility Playbook TL;DR Three steps: benchmark your current model, port and tune prompts for the new model, then validate side-by-side on the same golden dataset. Measure three things: quality (accuracy/faithfulness), speed (Time To First Token and total latency), and cost (token-based accounting plus retrieval costs). […]
Best Cloud Phone Systems 2026: Choosing UCaaS for AI Automation, Sales Coaching & Global Calling
Best Cloud Phone Systems 2026: How to Choose the Right UCaaS for AI Automation and Global Calling TL;DR: RingCentral is the safest all‑round UCaaS for growing, multi‑site teams; Dialpad is the top pick for AI for sales and real‑time coaching; Nextiva is attractive for SMBs and regulated support teams but requires a big jump to […]
When an Algorithm Reshuffled a City: Gothenburg’s School-Placement Failure and AI Governance Lessons
When an algorithm quietly reshuffled a city’s children: lessons from Gothenburg for AI governance She tore open the envelope and read the school placement. Her daughter was assigned to a school across a river and a major highway — a route that would take a long detour by foot or require multiple bus changes. The […]
Cursor TypeScript SDK: Deployable AI Agents for CI/CD, Backends, and Self-Hosted Automation
Cursor TypeScript SDK: Build deployable AI agents for CI/CD and backends Cursor’s TypeScript SDK turns coding assistants from interactive IDE helpers into deployable automation you can run in CI pipelines, backend services, or production systems. Why it matters Developers and platform teams have been cobbling together LLM orchestration—retrieval, sandboxing, session state, tool integrations—every time a […]