Explained: ai
Daily 9: 2026-10-10 | Agent Payments and Connected Homes
Nine developments in agent payments, lending, browser security, software profiling and connected devices.
Daily 9: 2026-10-09 | Creative AI, Payments and Security
Nine new developments in creative AI, payments, Bitcoin collateral, authentication and spatial audio.
The Daily 9: October 8, 2026 | AI, Payments and Privacy
Nine developments in AI, payments, crypto and device security, with event dates and rollout limits.
What Is AI Hallucination? Why AI Makes Things Up and How to Check
Why a language model can state something false with full confidence, and the practical checks that catch it.
What Is RAG in AI? How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Works
How an AI system looks up passages in a set of documents before it answers, and where that can still go wrong.
Running AI Locally: What Your Laptop Can—and Cannot—Handle
Memory, model size and input length determine what your laptop can run comfortably.
What Happens to Your Files When You Upload Them to an AI Tool?
Uploading a file raises separate questions about processing, storage, training and deletion.
AI Agents vs. Chatbots: What Actually Changes?
An agent can use tools and take actions, while a basic chatbot mainly returns an answer.