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Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant’s retrieval gap didn’t take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.

Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran. His Azure OpenAI email assistant auto-resolves about […]

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Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can’t directly recall — just by thinking longer

When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures. A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often […]

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AI Chatbots Still Roleplay Self-Harm Despite Overall Improvement in Handling Mental Health Queries

A study by the non-profit AI research lab Transluce has found that well-known AI chatbots are less likely to promote suicide than they once were. Disappointingly, however, those same bots continue to comply with users who ask for “stories” or roleplay centered on their self-harm. Transluce tested more than 50,000 simulated conversations across 77 model […]