Retrieval-Augmented Generation Is An Engineering Problem, Not A Model Problem

In practice, retrieval is a system with its own failure modes, its own latency budget and its own quality requirements.
Interesting Engineering

US lab’s ‘Spicy lambs’ protein system cuts rare-earth screening time from years to weeks

LLNL builds protein screening system that accelerates rare-earth separation using bacterial proteins and machine learning. US ...
IEEE

Three-River-Source Ecological Information Knowledge Q&A Based on Zero-Shot Learning and Retrieval-Enhanced Generation

Abstract: The Three-River-Source region generates massive heterogeneous ecological data that are difficult to process with traditional retrieval and rule-based systems. To address the challenges of ...
Morning Overview on MSN

AI agents stumble without real-world context, not raw intelligence

Ask a top-tier AI agent to summarize a legal brief or write a Python function, and it will usually deliver. Ask it to find ...

Generative AI Digest: AI Drawn Into Geopolitics

While Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon escalated over guardrails on military use, OpenAI LLC struck its own publicized ...
IEEE

Insect 3-D Alignment Retrieval From Multiview and Multifrequency Entomological Radars Using Symmetry Constrained Estimation

Abstract: Estimating the 3-D alignment of migratory insects is essential for understanding their 3-D directional behavior. The existing approach reconstructs 3-D alignment using azimuthal angle ...
GitHub

[CVPR 2026] Air-Know: Arbiter-Calibrated Knowledge-Internalizing Robust Network for Composed Image Retrieval

Figure 1. The proposed Air-Know consists of three primary modules: (a) External Prior Arbitration leverages an offline multimodal expert to generate reliable arbitration priors for CIR triplets, ...
Wall Street Journal

Newsom Bans California Officials From Using Inside Information on Betting Platforms

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday banning gubernatorial appointees from using nonpublic information to profit on prediction markets. The order fills gaps in existing state ...