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Articles from the Matious engineering team on taking AI systems from pilot to production: what we build, what breaks, and how we fix it.

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Models/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

A builder's guide to the autumn 2026 model wave

Three frontier launches in three weeks, priced from $0.10 to $20 per million tokens. What shipped, how to compare it fairly, and how to build for the next one.

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AI costs/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

Cheaper tokens, pricier agents

Token prices fall while the cost per agentic workflow climbs. Where agent budgets go, and the routing, caching and measurement habits that keep them in check.

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E-commerce/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

Your next shopper is an agent

AI-referred shoppers now convert better than other traffic. Before Black Friday, check your store the way an agent reads it: product data, prices, checkout.

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Regulation/Oct 24, 2026/7 min read

What the EU AI Act still asks of your product after the Omnibus

The Omnibus moved the high-risk deadlines, not the transparency duties or GPAI enforcement. What applies now, what lands in 2027-2028, and how to use the gap.

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Engineering/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

MCP goes stateless

The July 2026 MCP spec drops sessions and the initialize handshake. What breaks, what gets easier to host, and how we're approaching migration and security.

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Tax tech/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

AI tax research goes mainstream, and so does the hallucinated-citation problem

Most US tax professionals now use AI for research weekly, and fake citations have reached the Tax Court. What Clinco and the IRS OPR guidelines mean for tools.

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Security/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

AI is now both attacker and target

IBM finds one in four malicious breaches is now AI-enabled. How we design LLM stacks so that a breach exposes tokens instead of personal data.

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Regulation/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

What French and EU financial supervisors now expect from AI

The ACPR will supervise high-risk AI from December 2027 and doubts that dropping sensitive variables makes a model fair. What French firms should build now.

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Mobile/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

iOS 27, Android developer verification, and what app teams should plan for

iOS 27 lets apps call any language model, on-device or in the cloud. Android now ties apps to a verified developer. What React Native teams should do now.

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Nearshore/Oct 24, 2026/6 min read

Why Morocco is becoming Europe's AI engineering nearshore

A national AI plan in implementation, a data-center buildout and an offshoring sector moving into engineering. What the 2026 numbers mean for teams hiring here.