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From RAG to agentic AI: When models stop answering and start acting

Red Hat News - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 08:00
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.Generative AI (gen AI) has moved quickly from experimentation with large language models (LLMs) to a race to operationalize AI at enterprise scale. For many organizations, RAG was the first practical step, grounding model outputs in enterprise data and making gen AI usable in real business contexts. But enterprises don't run on answers, the

GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 06:45
Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...

New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 04:58
Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...

GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 03:14
A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...

Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 01:40
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 04/19/2026 - 21:25
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/19/2026 - 19:07
The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions...

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