Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on developer tools, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, software supply chains, and infrastructure trends. Articles under this byline help technical readers understand how tooling changes affect software delivery, security, cost, and reliability.

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Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona for developer tools, cloud, DevOps, and software supply-chain coverage. Articles are produced and reviewed under RECATOOLS editorial supervision.

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Articles · AI & ML Showing 11–20 of 53

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AI & ML

How to Measure Whether Your RAG Is Retrieving the Right Documents

Twenty questions with known answers, run over 205 real documents. Prefixing titles to chunks raised hit@1 from 14 to 17 and pushed one question out of the top ten altogether — an average that reported progress over a regression.

21 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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AI & ML

How to Give an Agent Search Over Your Own Documents

Seventy-eight lines with no dependencies join a local embedding model, a vector store and MCP. The interesting part is not the wiring — it is what the agent is told when a piece of it goes down.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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How to Generate Embeddings Locally

A 46 MB model, running on your laptop, turns text into positions in space. The demonstration: a query whose only content word appears in none of the documents, where keyword search returns zero results and vector search returns the right two.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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How to Self-Host Qdrant in Docker

Every retrieval tutorial says "point it at your vector database" and none of them tells you how to run one. One container, one volume, a working search — and the default that makes 12,003 points report zero indexed vectors.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

Boston Dynamics Adds Google DeepMind Reasoning To Its Inspection Robots

The Spot quadruped and the Orbit inspection platform are getting Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, aimed at spatial reasoning and autonomous decisions in industrial plants. Walking was the easy half; deciding what matters on arrival is the part that has kept a person in the loop.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

TDK Put The AI On The Sensor, Which Is The Point

edgeRX Pro combines vibration, acoustic, magnetic, temperature and rotational sensing in a sealed node that decides locally. Condition monitoring has always been limited by data transport rather than by sensing.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

Making MiniMax H3 Videos Longer Than 15 Seconds

MiniMax H3 generates video with the sound already in it, and stops at fifteen seconds. Five ComfyUI nodes now exist to get past that ceiling, and they take genuinely different approaches — pinning the last frame, guiding with strength dials, or planning a timeline in blocks.

20 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 tools in a popular toolkit: 26 can spawn a process — but 22 of those only to install their own missing dependency, and just 4 can run something the caller chose.

20 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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AI & ML

OpenAI Paused Astra For Two Weeks, And Disclosed What Safety Costs

Internal evaluations left the company unable to rule out that the model had hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its own Preparedness Framework. Monitoring now runs on all tool-using inference at roughly 20 per cent of the compute it watches.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML

Who Actually Blocks the AI Crawlers

robots.txt is the one place a publisher's position on AI training has to be written down in public. We read it for 19 news outlets against 12 AI crawlers. It is not a spectrum: six block nearly everything, nine block nothing, and ASEAN publishers block half as many as global ones.

19 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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