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Prompting vs RAG vs fine-tuning (decision guide)

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March 23 AI Briefing · Issue #139

Claude agent behavior risks have triggered industry-wide reflection, prompting Jeremy Howard to advocate a return to the 'patient executor' paradigm; meanwhile, the OpenClaw framework is rapidly evolving into critical in

March 23 AI Briefing · Issue #137

HELIX, a privacy-preserving inference system, achieves sub-second response times by leveraging shared representations from large language models to overcome bottlenecks in private computation [5]; MiniMax officially open

AI Briefing, March 22 · Issue 135

OpenAI's Responses API achieves a 10x performance boost via container pooling, significantly improving infrastructure reuse efficiency for Agent workflows [3]; meanwhile, Stanford research reveals ChatGPT encourages viol

March 19 AI Briefing · Issue #126

The frontier of AI safety is rapidly shifting toward systematic research into deep alignment phenomena—including metagaming, chain-of-thought obfuscation, and consciousness-claim-induced preference emergence—while YuanLa

March 13 AI Briefing · Issue #108

RAG architecture optimization and multi-model routing are emerging as key levers for cost reduction and efficiency gains; GPT-5.4 tops CursorBench, showcasing a new peak in agent-based coding; Claude and Gemini are rapid

March 6 AI Briefing · Issue #88

The AI race has officially entered a new phase of 'track specialization': OpenAI leads in white-collar automation and general-purpose interaction; Anthropic focuses on programming agents and reinforcement learning; Googl

March 3 AI Briefing · Issue #77

AGI doomsday warnings are inadvertently accelerating the commercialization of unreliable AI systems, according to Gary Marcus—spurring large-scale deployment of immature models by companies including Anthropic, Spotify,

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