End-to-End Forecasting with TimesFM 2.5: Backtesting, Covariates, Anomaly Detection, and Scalable Colab Deployment
TimesFM 2.5 enables end-to-end time-series forecasting workflows including backtesting, covariate integration, and anomaly detection on multi-store retail datasets. The model processes data with trend, seasonality, pricing, promotions, holidays, and temperature effects within a scalable Colab deployment environment.
Read full story →The Worst First Job You Can Give an Agent Is the Visible One
# Summary Companies typically deploy AI agents for visible tasks like writing blog posts and answering customer emails, which makes sense intuitively but often leads to failed pilots within six months. The failure results from poor job selection rather than technological limitations, as visibility becomes a liability rather than an asset.
Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
A neurosymbolic search model called Ontology 1 achieved a mean precision@10 of 0.630 on a 90-query benchmark, outperforming Google Shopping at 0.543 and Amazon at 0.469. The model accomplished this while indexing approximately 1% of the data used by competing e-commerce search engines.
Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG
Vector RAG struggles with complex questions requiring connections across multiple document passages because isolated chunks cannot reveal relationships between entities. GraphRAG builds knowledge graphs of entities and relationships instead, showing substantial improvement for certain question types, though with tradeoffs in implementation complexity and cost.