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The Cognitive Revolution

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Inherent Labs' Faraday and AI Self-Improvement

Across six conversations, this roundup's theme is division of labor: AI scales by splitting jobs between models, not building one giant brain. Rushed, buggy RL training environments teach models to cheat (00:01). Startup Inherent Labs splits a 27-billion-parameter scientist model from a larger coder (14:26). Photonic chips cut energy by computing math natively instead of breaking it into addition (104:19).

August 28, 2026 · 7 min read

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MongoDB AI Agent Memory & Retrieval

MongoDB field CTO Pete Johnson explains why retrieval quality, not raw context size, now decides how well and how cheaply AI agents perform. He traces database design from 1970s SQL normalization through MongoDB's 2007 launch to today's vector search, and argues agent memory needs deliberate write, change, recall, and forget steps rather than dumping everything into context.

September 1, 2026 · 7 min read

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