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Martin Fowler

Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes its evolution from keyword-based search to an intelligent research assistant capable of answering complex questions and drafting regulatory documents. more…

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Reducing RAG Hallucinations With Relationship-Aware Retrieval

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the default pattern for grounding large language models in private or domain-specific knowledge. Yet most RAG systems still hallucinate, and the cause is rarely the model itself. It is the retrieval step. A language model can only reason over the passages it is handed; when retrieval returns an incomplete or disconnected set of passages, the model quietly fills the gaps with plausible-sounding but unsupported text. The retrieval layer, in other words,

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ExternalCybersecurity
SecurityWeek

Cal Water Investigating Iranian Hackers’ Claims

California Water Service says there is no indication of operational disruptions to its water and wastewater systems.  The post Cal Water Investigating Iranian Hackers’ Claims appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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ExternalCybersecurity
SecurityWeek

White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity

NSPM-12 establishes a clear structure for NSS cybersecurity governance and accountability and reestablishes CNSS. The post White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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External
The Hacker News

Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations continue to face a fundamental challenge: sifting through the noise to understand who is behind an IP and

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