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Models
IBM Granite Switch 4.1 Puts Chat, Decisions and Speech Behind One Endpoint
IBM describes chat, decision adapters and speech transcription behind one endpoint, but publishes no request contract, pricing or latency figures. Here is what to test first.
Governance
How Financial Firms Are Defining Boundaries for AI Agents
Financial firms are drawing lines between agents that recommend and agents that act. Here is what was actually described, what was only predicted, and which controls to review.
Adoption
Imago's Warranty-Policy App Puts Knowledge Graphs to a Practical Test
Imago says graph-based work got its warranty-support model answering correctly, but the published account has no accuracy figures, schema or validation method. Here is what to ask for before you copy the approach.
Models
LFM2.5-24B-A2B for On-Device Agents: What Deployment Teams Need to Verify
Liquid AI reports fast decoding on two devices, but memory needs, configuration details and privacy behavior are left for your team to verify.
Governance
Make the Commit Gate Enforce the Diagnostics Path—Without Replacing Review
A diff check can confirm a coding agent took the approved diagnostics path, but it only catches the pattern you encode, and review still has to judge the rest.
Industry
Humanoid Robot Supply Bottlenecks Could Shape Deployment Plans
The headline implies humanoid robot bottlenecks, but the source excerpt documents none. Here is how buyers can ask vendors for sourcing, capacity and delivery evidence before committing.
Infrastructure
A Liquid Clustering Benchmark Offers a Decision Framework, but the Summary Leaves Key Details Out
An InfoQ comparison of Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering and partitioning promises a decision framework, but the summary omits workloads, results and failure-mode details.
Adoption
Spotify’s AI Coding Boom Is a Throughput Number, Not a Productivity Proof
Spotify says AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes. That is a volume figure; whether testing, observability and rollback kept pace is the question that matters.
Governance
AI Bills Are Becoming an Engineering Cost-Control Problem
An InfoQ talk calls AI spend a software engineering cost crisis. Before you cut budgets, measure cost per successful output by workload and add controls that actually enforce limits.
Infrastructure
Dell's AI Partner Ecosystem: Where Production Buyers Should Draw the Build-or-Buy Line
Dell's partner network and a 350-rack claim show reach, not a production blueprint. Here is where buyers should split build from buy, and what to get in writing.
Agents
Anthropic's Dynamic Workflows: A Practical Test for Claude Agent Coordination
Anthropic's dynamic workflows let Claude plan and coordinate its own agents. The source shows a demo, not results, so here is what to test before you adopt it.
Agents
When Should a Company Skip an AI Agent?
A practical screen for deciding between deterministic automation, human-directed AI and an agent, covering error budgets, economics and the role of human judgment.