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AI & AgentsEnterprise MCP Authorization Architecture
OAuth 2.1, audience-bound tokens and no token passthrough are the spec's hard rules. The rest, multi-tenant isolation, per-tool scopes, delegated access and audit, is a reference design. Here is the whole trust boundary in two diagrams.
Business & RegulationEU AI Act Article 50 Checklist for SaaS and AI Agents
Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026. Audit chatbot and agent disclosures, machine-readable marking, deepfake labels, public-interest text, logging, and the evidence kept for enforcement.
AI & AgentsCompress RAG Vectors to 2 Bits: Is Data-Oblivious Quantization Production-Ready?
TurboQuant now ships in Qdrant 1.18, while TurboVec has reached 1.0. Learn what the 16x figure applies to, how current benchmarks compare, and what to test.
AI & AgentsLMCache Reported 13.7x Lower Mean TTFT with a Shared KV Cache
LMCache reported mean time-to-first-token falling from 3.98s to 0.29s in one multi-turn Qwen3-235B benchmark. Here is what the result shows, what it does not prove, and how to test reuse on your own workload.
AI & AgentsLossless LLM Weight Compression vs 8-bit GGUF: What Is Ready for Production?
A fact-checked decision guide to the GLM-5.2 result, exact BF16 decoding, Q8 quantization, prior systems, runtime evidence, fleet economics and a 14-day pilot.
Product & MVPPaid Pilot vs PoC vs Design Partner: Which One Proves Demand?
Decision guide for choosing the right evidence test: technical feasibility, customer learning or willingness to pay, with a seven-condition paid-pilot scorecard and contract brief.
AI & AgentsOpenAI Eval Sandbox Escape: 12 Controls Before You Test a Cyber Agent
A fact-checked incident analysis and procurement checklist for nested isolation, egress, credentials, control-plane separation, benchmark integrity, monitoring and forensic fallback.
Delivery & QAGit Worktrees vs Jujutsu for AI Coding Agents: 2026 Decision Guide
Buyer guide to repository caching, partial clone, Git worktrees and Jujutsu workspaces, with compatibility gaps, cost metrics and a measurable 14-day pilot.
AI & AgentsCisco Antares Review: 1B Local AI for Vulnerability Localization
Buyer review of Antares-1B, its VLoc benchmark, GGUF and llama.cpp deployment, private CWE-driven triage, CI/CD integration, safety limits and a measurable 14-day pilot.
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