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Model Distillation: How Teams Cut LLM Inference Costs 5–20x Without a Quality Cliff
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Model Distillation: How Teams Cut LLM Inference Costs 5–20x Without a Quality Cliff

A frontier teacher, a cheap student model, and 5-20x lower inference cost. Here's how distillation actually works — and the failure mode that hides a 12% quality drop behind a "two-point" average score.

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Meta Andromeda: The AI Rebuild That Quietly Changed Every Ad Account on Facebook and Instagram
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Meta Andromeda: The AI Rebuild That Quietly Changed Every Ad Account on Facebook and Instagram

Meta rebuilt the retrieval stage that decides which ads even compete for your attention — 10,000x more model complexity, run by default on every account. Here's what's actually confirmed by Meta versus agency-derived hype.

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15 Coding Habits Stolen From Senior Engineers
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15 Coding Habits Stolen From Senior Engineers

15 habits that separate senior engineers from everyone else — naming for future readers, pushing error handling to boundaries, timeboxing before escalating — each with a real code example, not vague advice.

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Why AI-Driven Productivity Without Security Will Fail at Scale
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Why AI-Driven Productivity Without Security Will Fail at Scale

171% average ROI is why boards keep funding AI agents. Only 14.4% ship with full security approval is why that bet is fragile. The economics of skipping security — and what production-grade agent security actually requires.

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CKYC 2.0: India's New Customer ID System — What It Actually Changes, and What It Doesn't
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CKYC 2.0: India's New Customer ID System — What It Actually Changes, and What It Doesn't

India's second attempt at unified KYC launches in August. The first one failed on bad data and uncoordinated regulators. The confidence score is built to fix exactly that — here's what it means for lending and fintech onboarding.

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: The Open Model That Optimised for Speed Instead of Leaderboards
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: The Open Model That Optimised for Speed Instead of Leaderboards

NVIDIA's 550B open-weight model scores 47.7 on the Intelligence Index — behind Kimi K2.6 and far behind Opus 4.8. It also runs 5.9× faster than GLM-5.1. For long-running agents, that trade is the whole point.

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