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Author(s): Chew Loong Nian – AI ENGINEER Originally published on Towards AI. fx declares seventeen built-in tools, and a full turn with a subagent host carries fifteen function schemas. I measured a stock four-server MCP setup at 37 tools and 22,226 bytes — the exact payload this design keeps out of the request. Every few weeks I go through the same small humiliation. I add an M...

Author(s): Decoding AI Originally published on Towards AI. 2,436 findings is a discovery number. Nothing in it is a remediation number. There is a particular kind of silence that follows a very productive week. On August 14, 2026, the AI lab Z.ai published a model and a ledger. The model was GLM-5.3. The ledger listed 2,436 software vulnerabilities the lab says its models found ...

Author(s): Decoding AI Originally published on Towards AI. We refit Anthropic’s published per-target protein design counts on Aug 25, 2026. Ninety designs went into the wet lab against maltose-binding protein. Ninety came back with nothing. That is the part of the story that stopped us. On August 18, 2026, Anthropic published the results of an autonomous protein design campaign,...

Author(s): Rohan Mistry Originally published on Towards AI. Calibrate your judge. Detect its biases. Trust your scores. Your LLM judge might be lying to you. After introducing the problem of uncalibrated LLM evaluators, the article explains what LLM-as-a-judge actually is (a model scoring another model’s output using criteria/rubrics), why teams use it instead of human review or...

Author(s): Sai Kaushik Ponnekanti Originally published on Towards AI. Firstly, In the previous article, we founded a startup whose mission is to stop people from losing their life savings to fraudulent emails.. One thing we left out is that we forgot to name the startup. I think I understand why, we are engineers at heart and want to get our hands dirty as quickly as possible an...