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Energy 30 Apr 2026

An LLM Outage at a 1.4GW Combined-Cycle Plant: What Actually Happened

Operators rely on a copilot for runbook lookup. The provider went down for 38 minutes. Here's how the control room handled it — and what we changed after.

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Water 21 Apr 2026

Customer-Service AI at a Mid-Sized Utility: Three Things We Got Wrong

Billing inquiries are easy until they aren't. The cases that broke our chatbot, ranked by how surprising they were.

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Manufacturing 12 Apr 2026

Vision QA Models on the Line: Why We Killed Three Out of Four

Production AI is mostly graveyards. The decision criteria we use now to decide what reaches the factory floor.

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