Category: Artificial Intelligence
From Zero to Exploit Detection: A Practical Guide to Nuclei Templates for Pen Testing
Vulnerability scanning used to mean choosing between a handful of expensive commercial scanners or writing your own scripts for every check you cared about. Nuclei changed that calculation. It is an open source scanning engine built by ProjectDiscovery that runs YAML defined templates against targets, and the template library has grown into one of the […]
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The Universal Travel Adapter for AI, and Why OpenRouter Is So Cool
Anyone who has travelled with a laptop knows the ritual. You arrive somewhere new, you pull out your charger, and you discover that the wall has entirely different opinions about what a plug should look like. The device in your bag has not changed and the electricity coming out of the wall has not changed […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part Three: Teaching It What Is Out of Character
Abnormal is always relative. An embedding computed in advance can hold an inbound payment before it arrives, and the same property explains where this approach fails. This is the last of three parts. Part one explains what Revolut’s PRAGMA is and how it works. Part two covers credit and financial inclusion. Where the first two […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part Two: The Lending Market Hiding in Your Embeddings
Conventional lending has confused regularity with durability. An AI reading the transaction history directly measures what a payslip cannot, and in a market like South Africa that changes who is lendable at all. This is the second of three parts. Part one explains what Revolut’s PRAGMA is and how it works. Part three covers fraud, […]
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Finally, an AI That Understands Money, Part One: Inside Revolut’s Customer Embeddings
Revolut and NVIDIA have published the most detailed public account yet of an AI that learns a customer straight from their banking history. Part one covers what it is, how it works, and what the results actually prove. This is the first of three parts. Part two looks at what it means for credit and […]
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What Are Embeddings in AI? A Plain English Guide to Vector Search and RAG
1. The problem nobody states plainly Every time someone in banking talks about Retrieval Augmented Generation, vector databases, or semantic search, the word embeddings surfaces almost immediately, and most people in the room nod without actually knowing what an embedding is. That is not a criticism. It is simply what happens when a mathematical concept […]
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Why Open Weight AI Is Gaining Ground as US Model Access Becomes Politicised
Two screenshots crossed my phone within about a day of each other this week, and together they say more about where this industry is heading than most of the analyst notes I read. The first is Moonshot AI announcing it had to pause new subscriptions to Kimi K3 because demand pushed its GPUs close to […]
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Cognitive Surrender or Competitive Advantage? What a Reddit Rant Gets Right and Wrong About AI Code Review
A post did the rounds recently on r/cscareerquestions, a Reddit forum where software engineers trade career advice and workplace stories, under the title “My senior engineers have stopped thinking for themselves.” The author, three years into a job he liked, describes watching his tech lead ship a PR labelled “refactored auth flow based on ChatGPT […]
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Where Kimi Can Beat Claude on Coding Economics, and Where It Cannot
1. The narrow claim This is not a case for replacing Claude across the enterprise. Most of what several thousand ordinary employees do with AI is low volume and highly varied, and a frontier model’s breadth is genuinely worth paying for there. That part of the bill is not in play in this piece. The […]
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AI Vendor Risk: Are We Building a Death Star to Blow Up Our Own Planet?
1. The question worth asking properly A colleague messaged me recently about Claude Cowork, loving what it does, but with one worry he couldn’t shake, at what point have we ceded so much organisational context and IP to a vendor that they could simply run us. That is the actual question this piece is trying […]
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