The difference between a coding assistant and an agentic IDE is not just a matter of capability — it’s architectural. A coding assistant responds to prompts. An agentic system operates in a closed loop: it reads the current state of the codebase, plans a sequence of changes, executes them, and verifies the result before reporting […]
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3 Topics We’re Excited About at TRANSACT 2026
For years, digital wallets in the U.S. have been steady but unspectacular—useful for tap‑to‑pay, not exactly groundbreaking. But the energy in payments today is coming from somewhere unexpected: the crypto wallet world. Stablecoins now exceed $300 billion in circulation, and the infrastructure behind them is delivering the kind of security, interoperability, and user control traditional payments have long […]
vLLM v0.16 Adds WebSocket Realtime API and Faster Scheduling
vLLM v0.16.0: Throughput Scheduling and a WebSocket Realtime API Date: February 24, 2026 Source: vLLM Release Notes Release Context: This is a version upgrade. vLLM v0.16.0 is the latest release of the popular open-source inference server. The WebSocket Realtime API is a new feature that mirrors the functionality of OpenAI’s Realtime API, providing a self-hosted […]
LLM Concept Vectors: MIT Research on Steering AI Behavior
Date: February 23, 2026 Source: Science Researchers from MIT and UC San Diego published a paper in Science describing LLM concept vectors and a new algorithm called the Recursive Feature Machine (RFM) that can extract these concept vectors from large language models. Essentially, these are patterns of neural activity corresponding to specific ideas or behaviors. […]
Anthropic Accuses DeepSeek of Distillation Attacks on Claude
Date: February 23, 2026 Source: Anthropic Blog Anthropic published a detailed post revealing what it calls an Anthropic distillation attack at industrial scale, accusing three Chinese AI labs (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI/Kimi, and MiniMax) of systematically extracting Claude’s capabilities. According to Anthropic, the labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated more than 16 million exchanges […]
Perficient Earns Databricks Brickbuilder Specialization for Healthcare & Life Sciences
Perficient is proud to announce that we have earned the Databricks Brickbuilder Specialization for Healthcare & Life Sciences, a distinction awarded to select partners who consistently demonstrate excellence in using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to solve the industry’s most complex data challenges. This specialization reflects both our strategic commitment to advancing health innovation through […]
Common Machine Learning Concepts and Algorithms
Machine Learning (ML) may sound technical; however, once you break it down, it’s simply about teaching computers to learn from data—just like humans learn from experience. In this blog, we’ll explore ML in simple words: its types, important concepts, and popular algorithms. What Is Machine Learning? Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence; in […]
Language Mastery as the New Frontier of Software Development
In the current technological landscape, the interaction between human developers and Large Language Models (LLMs) has transitioned from a peripheral experiment into a core technical competency. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in software development: the evolution from traditional code logic to language logic. This discipline, known as Prompt Engineering, is not merely about “chatting” […]
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) -AI architectural framework
The evolution of AI is advancing at a rapid pace, progressing from Generative AI to AI agents, and from AI agents to Agentic AI.Many companies are developing their own AI tools, training The LLM specifically to enhance images, audio, video, and text communications with a human-like touch. However, the data used in these tools is […]
The Missing Layer: How On-Device AI Agents Could Revolutionize Enterprise Learning
A federated architecture for self-improving skills — from every employee’s laptop to the company brain. Every enterprise has the same problem hiding in plain sight. Somewhere between the onboarding wiki that nobody reads, the Slack threads that disappear after a week, and the senior engineer who carries half the team’s knowledge in their head — […]
Seven Federal Regulatory Reports Banks and BHCs with $10 to $100 Billion in Assets Must Master
Introduction Insured domestic financial institutions operating in the United States with total consolidated assets between $10 billion and $100 billion face a complex and multi-layered regulatory reporting landscape. These mid-sized banking organizations occupy a critical position in the financial system—large enough to pose potential systemic risks yet distinct from the very largest global systemically important […]
Unlocking the Power of On-Device AI with Google AI Edge
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, the shift from cloud-based processing to on-device AI is transforming how we interact with technology. Google is at the forefront of this revolution with Google AI Edge, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help developers deploy high-performance AI directly on mobile, web, and embedded devices. This […]