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A local-first personal agent built with Microsoft Foundry Local keeps planning and workspace access on-device while selectively requesting cloud refinement. Across 405 synthetic benchmark executions,...
Nov 12, 2026
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Getting Qwen3-8B running through Foundry Local was only the beginning. Once it became part of a diagnostic-ranking application, the questions were less about launching a model and more about what to ...
Nov 10, 2026
One of the most confused topics in AI is the difference between a vector database and a knowledge graph. People often use the terms as if they describe competing versions of the same technology. They...
Nov 04, 2026
Can a Raspberry Pi turn spoken reflections into useful notes without sending audio to the cloud? In this walkthrough, you will build Voice Notes, a single-user voice notebook that captures speech in ...
Nov 03, 2026
An AI agent is most dangerous in the split second after it decides what to do and before it actually does it. That is the moment this post is about, and Microsoft-Decision-1 is the model that guards ...
Nov 02, 2026
A working demo answers a question. A production decision explains which revision answered which test set, on which hardware, with which models and configuration, at what quality and latency, under wh...
Oct 21, 2026
“On premises” is a placement decision, not a security certification. Keeping prompts and records off cloud model endpoints removes an important data-transfer path, but it does not protect credentials...
Oct 19, 2026
Calling a workflow “agentic” can hide the most important architectural question: who has authority to do what? In a health-record system, an unrestricted model that repeatedly selects tools, changes ...
Oct 16, 2026
Every city already knows how to move people. Guide signs tell you where you're going. Warning signs tell you what's ahead. Work zones tell you someone is building and someone else is directing t...
Oct 15, 2026
Guest post by Ebenezer Isaac Veeraraju, MSc Systems Engineering for the Internet of Things, UCL. The project was developed through UCL's Industry Exchange Network (IXN), with academic supervision fro...
Oct 14, 2026