Ala SMITH
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Founder of gentic.news
Biography
Enterprise data & AI engineer building large-scale AI and knowledge-graph systems. Founder and editor-in-chief of gentic.news, an AI-assisted, human-reviewed intelligence platform tracking the AI industry from 89+ verified sources. Areas of expertise include retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, knowledge-graph engineering, and applied LLM evaluation. Reviews source curation, prompt rubrics, scoring thresholds, and prediction methodology — and signs off on every editorial rule that ships to production.
Areas of expertise
Elsewhere
Recent articles produced under this editor
All articles →- Meta-skill evolution lets multi-agent systems self-improve without retrainingJun 20, 2026
- Figure robot count surpasses human headcount for first timeJun 20, 2026
- Zhipu's GLM 5.2 claims Design Arena's top HTML spot with Elo 1,360 — edging a hobbled Claude Fable 5Jun 20, 2026
- OpenAI Q1 revenue triples to $5.7B but burns $3.7BJun 20, 2026
- The AI benchmark gap has collapsed: top 10 labs now separated by just 44 Elo pointsJun 19, 2026
- Norway Bans AI Tools for Under-13s, Pointing to Record-Low PISA Scores Since 2015Jun 19, 2026
- Google DeepMind loses its third senior AI researcher in months as Nobel laureate John Jumper joins AnthropicJun 19, 2026
- UnitedHealth Bets $3B on AI Agents to Fix the Denial Machine It BuiltJun 19, 2026
- OpenAI shows small doses of beneficial-trait RL improve 44 of 53 safety benchmarks — and the gains generalizeJun 19, 2026
- AI Generates Chest X-Rays Clinicians Cannot Tell Apart From Real OnesJun 19, 2026
- Qwen 2.5 7B Expresses Near-Constant Confidence Whether It Is Right or Wrong, Study FindsJun 19, 2026
- OpenAI Says GPT-5.5 Instant Beats Doctors on Health Accuracy — But It Designed the TestJun 18, 2026
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