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Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations are suspect, but leaders at major AI companies — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, an
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Here's the demo that always works: you point a notebook at a vector index, ask it a question, and it answers perfectly. Everyone claps. Three weeks later, the same system tells a customer that your refund window is 90 days when it's 30, cites a document that doesn't exist, and occasionally surfaces another tenant's invoice in the context. Nobody clapped for that part. RAG is deceptively easy to stand up and genuinely hard to keep honest. The retrieval step looks like a solved problem — embed the
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