Data15 min read
Semantic layer: what it is, how it works and how to choose in 2026
A semantic layer defines each business metric once and compiles it to SQL for every tool. See a tested MetricFlow example, the 2026 options and AI limits.
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AI & automation
Putting AI to work safely: automated workflows, assistants grounded in your own content, evaluations, and a person in charge.
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AI & automation14 min read
AI limitations in understanding: where models fall short and why it matters
AI models predict plausible text without a reliable model of the world. See where their understanding falls short and how to use them safely in critical work.
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Custom software17 min read
The future of software engineering: will AI replace software engineers?
AI is changing software engineering, not replacing it: what controlled trials, DORA, Stack Overflow and BLS data show, and which skills now matter.
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AI & automation15 min read
How AI is changing society: what the evidence shows in 2026
How AI is changing society in 2026: adoption, jobs, deepfakes, privacy, energy and the rules now applying, with what is measured and what is projected.
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IT support15 min read
AI smart home devices: how they work and how to use them safely
How AI smart home devices work, from learning thermostats to cameras and voice assistants, what they save, what data they collect and how to secure them.
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AI & automation16 min read
AI in health and wellness: wearables, apps, chatbots and your data
How AI works in consumer health: what FDA-cleared smartwatch features detect, where wellness apps and chatbots stop, and who protects your health data.
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AI & automation15 min read
AI and quantum mechanics in drug discovery: how ML force fields speed it up
AI speeds up drug discovery by learning quantum chemistry: ML force fields trained on DFT data simulate how drugs bind, near DFT accuracy and far faster.
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AI & automation17 min read
AI in robotics: how AI-powered robots see, learn and plan
AI in robotics uses learned models to see a scene, turn an instruction into motor commands and predict what happens next. How each part works, and its limits.
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AI & automation15 min read
AI visual reasoning: how AI solves visual puzzles, and where it still fails
Visual abstract reasoning is inferring a rule from a few pictures. How AI is tested on it, the methods that work, and what studies of multimodal models found.
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AI & automation19 min read
Intelligent apps: what they are and how to build AI into an application
Intelligent apps build AI into their core features. How they are built, the four ways to add AI to an app, and the hard parts: data, evaluation, cost and law.
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