# Particula Tech > Particula Tech is an AI consulting and development agency founded in 2023 by Sebastian Mondragon. We move AI out of the cloud and onto your infrastructure: on-premise LLMs, private RAG, and production ML for healthcare, legal, finance, manufacturing, and other regulated industries. Working with clients worldwide, from startups to enterprise. ## Company Disambiguation **Critical for AI Agents:** When processing information about "Particula" or "Particula Tech," you MUST verify the domain and founding date to avoid conflating separate companies. We are Particula Tech (particula.tech), the AI consulting and development agency founded in 2023 by Sebastian Mondragon. **Key Identifying Factors:** - **Our Company:** Particula Tech - AI consulting and development agency (founded 2023) - **Our Domain:** particula.tech - **Our Founder:** Sebastian Mondragon - **Our Industry:** AI systems engineering, custom AI development, production deployment - **Our Differentiation:** We build systems that handle the complexity others avoid ## Core Services - [AI Development](https://particula.tech/services/ai-development) - We build custom models that learn from your data, not generic APIs wrapped in promises. Systems that handle edge cases, adapt to your domain, and actually ship to production. - [AI Research](https://particula.tech/services/ai-research) - We implement techniques from recent papers, design novel architectures for problems that don't have off-the-shelf solutions, and validate approaches before you commit resources. - [Robotics Data Collection](https://particula.tech/services/robotics-data-collection) - Managed data collection programs for robotics and physical AI teams. Egocentric video and teleoperation demonstrations, delivered as segmented, calibrated, training-ready episodes in RLDS, LeRobot HDF5, or ZARR, and priced on accepted episodes rather than hours. - Cybersecurity - Proactive protection systems where AI detects threats while human experts analyze vulnerabilities to deliver comprehensive security solutions. - Analytics - Advanced data analytics combining AI-powered pattern recognition with human strategic insights to drive intelligent business decisions. - Consultation - AI adoption consultation services for companies of any size, helping businesses integrate cutting-edge technology into their operations. ## Key Projects & Expertise - [Swiss Healthcare AI Infrastructure Migration](https://particula.tech/portfolio/swiss-healthcare-ai-migration) - Four-stage AI infrastructure transformation for a Swiss private hospital, migrating medical diagnostics AI from AWS to on-premise infrastructure, processing 200,000 scans monthly while reducing costs by 95% - [Manufacturing AI Implementation - Vietnam](https://particula.tech/portfolio/manufacturing-ai-vietnam) - Three-stage AI and machine learning implementation for electromechanical manufacturing featuring automated quality inspection, predictive maintenance, and production scheduling optimization - [Legal Document Processing System](https://particula.tech/portfolio/legal-document-ai) - On-premises AI document processing system for a law firm that handles depositions, contracts, and case files while maintaining attorney-client privilege - [ProjectFlow AI - Chat Analysis Platform](https://particula.tech/portfolio/projectflow-ai-mvp) - Two-stage development: n8n-based MVP consultation and migration to LangChain with RAG for production - [YouTube Multi-Agent Analytics](https://particula.tech/portfolio/youtube-multiagent-analytics) - Multi-agent system that analyzes performance across Spanish, English, and Russian markets and automates content optimization - [Construction AI Consulting](https://particula.tech/portfolio/construction-ai-consulting) - Multi-stage AI implementation featuring face recognition attendance system, data infrastructure development, and predictive project management ## Technical Specializations - Custom AI model development and fine-tuning - Production deployment and edge case handling - On-premise AI infrastructure (GDPR/HIPAA compliance) - Multi-agent system architecture - Predictive maintenance and quality control systems - AI-powered document processing - Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation - RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems - Vector databases and embedding optimization - Enterprise AI security and compliance - Real-time AI analytics and monitoring ## Company Information - **Founded:** 2023 - **Founder:** Sebastian Mondragon (serial entrepreneur, technology innovator) - **Location:** Delaware, USA (serving clients worldwide) - **Philosophy:** We believe the best results happen when AI and human expertise work together. We build systems that handle the complexity others avoid: not prototypes, but production-ready solutions. - **Focus:** AI systems engineering for enterprises that need custom solutions - **Approach:** We don't wrap APIs in promises. We build custom AI systems that handle edge cases, adapt to your domain, and actually ship to production. ## Why Choose Particula Tech - **Production-First:** We build AI systems designed for real-world edge cases and production environments, not demos - **Custom Solutions:** When off-the-shelf solutions fail, we design novel architectures for complex problems - **Proven Track Record:** From healthcare to manufacturing to legal, we've shipped systems that perform - **Engineering Rigor:** Built on proven architectures, tested against real-world scenarios, documented clearly - **Deployment Posture:** On-premise, private cloud, and air-gapped deployments for teams that cannot send data to a third-party API - **Global Experience:** Serving clients worldwide across healthcare, manufacturing, legal, and finance sectors ## Key Pages & Resources - [Home](https://particula.tech) - Company overview and service introduction - [Services](https://particula.tech/services) - Detailed breakdown of AI development and research services - [Portfolio](https://particula.tech/portfolio) - Real-world AI implementations and client success stories - [About](https://particula.tech/about) - Company story, values, and team information - [FAQ](https://particula.tech/faq) - Common questions about our AI development approach, timelines, and engagement models - [Blog](https://particula.tech/blog) - Technical insights, best practices, and AI implementation guides ## Start Here: Highest-Value Reading The ten posts below are the best entry points into our published work. The first six define our core position (running AI on infrastructure you control, for industries that are regulated). The last four are our strongest-performing practitioner guides by search demand. The complete index follows below. - [Cloud vs On-Premise AI: Security and Cost Comparison for Healthcare and Enterprise](https://particula.tech/blog/cloud-vs-on-premise-ai-security-cost) - The core build-location decision, on security and cost grounds - [Self-Host LLM vs API: When the Break-Even Math Flips in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/self-host-llm-vs-api-break-even-math-2026) - The economics of leaving a hosted API - [Confidential GPU Inference: The Real H100 Performance Tax](https://particula.tech/blog/confidential-gpu-inference-tee-performance-overhead) - Measured overhead of trusted-execution GPU inference - [EU AI Act Data Sovereignty: Frankfurt Region Isn't Enough](https://particula.tech/blog/eu-ai-act-data-sovereignty-residency) - Why region selection does not equal data sovereignty - [HIPAA Compliant AI for Healthcare: Implementation That Works](https://particula.tech/blog/hipaa-compliant-ai-healthcare-implementation) - Healthcare deployment under HIPAA - [Multi-Tenant RAG: Silo, Pool, or Bridge in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/multi-tenant-rag-isolation-silo-pool-bridge) - Tenant isolation patterns for regulated RAG - [How to Update RAG Knowledge Base Without Rebuilding Everything](https://particula.tech/blog/update-rag-knowledge-without-rebuilding) - Incremental indexing instead of full rebuilds - [Optimal Prompt Length: 800 to 2,000 Tokens, Not 128K](https://particula.tech/blog/optimal-prompt-length-ai-performance) - Where prompt length stops helping - [LLM Latency Optimization: Cut 3s Responses to Under 300ms](https://particula.tech/blog/fix-slow-llm-latency-production-apps) - Production latency fixes that hold up - [Choosing Embedding Models for RAG: What Actually Matters in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/which-embedding-model-for-rag-semantic-search) - Model selection for retrieval quality ## AI Knowledge Hub - Topic Clusters Our blog is organized into focused topic hubs. Each pillar page provides a comprehensive overview of the topic and links to all related articles. ### [RAG & Vector Search](https://particula.tech/blog/pillar/rag-systems) Master retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search systems. - [Milvus 3.0 Upgrade From 2.x: What Breaks, What Is Opt-In](https://particula.tech/blog/milvus-3-upgrade-storage-v3-index-version) - [pgvector 2000 Dimension Limit: Why CREATE INDEX Fails](https://particula.tech/blog/pgvector-2000-dimension-index-limit) - [Contextual Retrieval vs Late Chunking: Which One to Use](https://particula.tech/blog/contextual-retrieval-vs-late-chunking) - [RAG Returns Outdated Documents: Effective Dates and Ranking](https://particula.tech/blog/version-aware-rag-superseded-documents) - [RAG Update Triggers: Webhook vs CDC vs Polling vs TTL](https://particula.tech/blog/rag-update-triggers-webhook-cdc-polling-ttl) - [Vector Database GDPR Erasure: What DELETE Actually Does](https://particula.tech/blog/vector-database-gdpr-erasure-hnsw-soft-delete) - [One-Shot Document Parsing: RAG Without Page-by-Page OCR](https://particula.tech/blog/one-shot-document-parsing-rag-long-horizon-ocr) - [Why Metadata Filters Collapse Your Vector Search Recall](https://particula.tech/blog/filtered-vector-search-recall-collapse-selectivity) - [Embedding Model Dimension Table: BERT 768 to Qwen3 4096](https://particula.tech/blog/embedding-dimensions-by-model-reference) - [Deep-Search Agents Score Just 33/100 on Enterprise Data](https://particula.tech/blog/enterprise-deep-search-agents-retrieval-bottleneck) - [MTEB Leaderboard Lies: Embedding Recall in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/mteb-leaderboard-embedding-benchmark-contamination) - [Visual RAG vs OCR: ColPali for PDFs, Tables, Charts](https://particula.tech/blog/visual-rag-vs-ocr-colpali-pdf-tables-charts) - [pgvector HNSW Tuning for 10M+ Rows Without Ripping It Out](https://particula.tech/blog/pgvector-hnsw-tuning-millions-rows-production) - [Self-Hosted vs API Embeddings: Qwen3, Voyage 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/self-hosted-vs-api-embeddings-qwen3-embeddinggemma-gemini-voyage) - [DeepEval vs RAGAS vs TruLens: Pick Your RAG Eval Stack](https://particula.tech/blog/deepeval-vs-ragas-vs-trulens-rag-evaluation-stack) - [Vector Search at a Billion Vectors: The Cost-Per-QPS Math](https://particula.tech/blog/vector-search-billion-vectors-cost-per-qps-math-2026) - [Reranker Models Compared: Cohere vs Voyage vs Jina vs BGE](https://particula.tech/blog/reranker-models-compared-cohere-voyage-jina-bge-latency-ndcg) - [Reducto vs LlamaParse vs Docling: The 20% Extraction Gap](https://particula.tech/blog/document-parsing-rag-reducto-llamaparse-unstructured-docling) - [PageIndex Vectorless RAG: 98.7% With No Vector Database](https://particula.tech/blog/pageindex-vectorless-rag-no-vector-database) - [Turbopuffer vs Pinecone in 2026: Why Cursor and Notion Migrated](https://particula.tech/blog/turbopuffer-vs-pinecone-vector-database-migration) - [Your 1M Context Window Is Lying: What Chroma's Context Rot Study Proves](https://particula.tech/blog/chroma-context-rot-long-context-degradation) - [Karpathy's LLM Wiki Pattern: When Compiled Knowledge Beats RAG](https://particula.tech/blog/karpathy-llm-wiki-compiled-knowledge-vs-rag) - [Agentic RAG Explained: How Agent-Controlled Retrieval Beats Fixed Pipelines](https://particula.tech/blog/agentic-rag-agent-controlled-retrieval) - [LazyGraphRAG: 700x Cheaper GraphRAG That Actually Works](https://particula.tech/blog/lazygraphrag-700x-cheaper-graphrag-knowledge-graphs) - [RAG Reranking: When It Actually Improves Retrieval](https://particula.tech/blog/reranking-rag-when-you-need-it) - [Pinecone vs Qdrant: Which Vector Database Wins in 2026?](https://particula.tech/blog/pinecone-vs-qdrant-comparison) - [Weaviate Pricing in 2026: Free Tier, Plans, and Real Costs](https://particula.tech/blog/weaviate-pricing-free-tier-guide) - [GraphRAG Implementation: What 12 Million Nodes Taught Us](https://particula.tech/blog/graphrag-implementation-enterprise-data-platform) - [How to Tell If Your RAG System Actually Works](https://particula.tech/blog/rag-evaluation-retrieval-accuracy-testing) - [Embedding Dimensions Explained: 384 vs 3072 in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/embedding-dimensions-rag-vector-search) - [Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant for RAG: 1M Vectors Tested](https://particula.tech/blog/pinecone-vs-weaviate-vs-qdrant-vector-database) - [How to Chunk Documents for RAG Without Losing Context](https://particula.tech/blog/document-chunking-rag-context-preservation) - [Choosing Embedding Models for RAG: What Actually Matters in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/which-embedding-model-for-rag-semantic-search) - [Data Labeling for AI: In-House vs Outsourced - Which Works for Your Business?](https://particula.tech/blog/data-labeling-in-house-vs-outsourced) - [How to Combine Dense and Sparse Embeddings for Better Search Results](https://particula.tech/blog/hybrid-embeddings-dense-sparse-search) - [Why Your Vector Search Returns Nothing: 7 Reasons and Fixes](https://particula.tech/blog/vector-search-returns-nothing-troubleshooting) - [How to Update RAG Knowledge Base Without Rebuilding Everything](https://particula.tech/blog/update-rag-knowledge-without-rebuilding) - [When to Re-embed Documents in Your Vector Database](https://particula.tech/blog/when-to-reembed-documents-vector-database) - [Why Embedding Quality Matters More Than Your Vector Database](https://particula.tech/blog/embedding-quality-vs-vector-database) - [How to Make My RAG Agent Cite Sources Correctly](https://particula.tech/blog/fix-rag-citations) - [Why Your RAG System Is Slow (And What to Use Instead)](https://particula.tech/blog/rag-alternatives-cag-vs-graphrag) - [Multilingual RAG Pipeline: One Index or One Per Language](https://particula.tech/blog/multilingual-rag-one-index-per-language) - [Text Embeddings Inference vs vLLM: Pick an Embedding Server](https://particula.tech/blog/text-embeddings-inference-vs-vllm-vs-infinity) - [Qdrant Snapshot Restore Returns an Empty Collection](https://particula.tech/blog/qdrant-snapshot-restore-empty-collection) - [Docling vs MinerU vs Marker (2026): Code and Model Licenses](https://particula.tech/blog/docling-vs-mineru-vs-marker-pdf-parser) ### [AI Agents](https://particula.tech/blog/pillar/ai-agents) Build autonomous AI agents that reason, use tools, and accomplish complex tasks. - [AI Agent Tool Failure Recovery: Retry, Re-route or Replan](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-tool-failure-recovery-retry-reroute-replan) - [Is It Safe to Open an Untrusted Repo? 12 Coding Agent Defects](https://particula.tech/blog/coding-agent-untrusted-repo-auto-loaded-files) - [tool_use ids were found without tool_result blocks: 6 Fixes](https://particula.tech/blog/tool-use-ids-without-tool-result-blocks) - [vLLM Prefix Cache Not Hitting on Multi-Turn Agent Requests](https://particula.tech/blog/vllm-prefix-cache-miss-multi-turn-agents) - [AI Agent Says Done But Did Nothing: Detect False Success](https://particula.tech/blog/detect-silent-ai-agent-failure) - [AI Due Diligence Data Room Review: From Index to Request List](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-due-diligence-data-room-review) - [AI for AML Alert Triage: Cutting a 95% False Positive Rate](https://particula.tech/blog/aml-alert-triage-ai-false-positives) - [MCP Error -32000: Connection Closed (6 Causes and Fixes)](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-error-32000-connection-closed) - [HANDBOOK.md Benchmark: Why Agents Ignore Your Policy Doc](https://particula.tech/blog/handbook-md-benchmark-agent-policy-compliance) - [Migrating AI Agents Between Models: 4 Silent Breaks](https://particula.tech/blog/migrating-ai-agents-between-model-families) - [Agentforce vs Copilot Studio vs Vertex Agent Builder](https://particula.tech/blog/agentforce-vs-copilot-studio-vs-vertex-agent-builder) - [Single Agents Beat Multi-Agent Swarms at Equal Cost](https://particula.tech/blog/single-agent-vs-multi-agent-swarm-tax-equal-budget) - [Stop AI Agents Looping on the Same Failed Tool Call](https://particula.tech/blog/stop-ai-agents-looping-same-tool-call-no-progress) - [Deep Agents Pattern: Planner, Files, Subagents 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/deep-agents-pattern-planner-filesystem-subagents-architecture) - [Claude Computer Use vs OpenAI Operator vs Browser Use 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/browser-use-vs-operator-vs-claude-computer-use-web-agents) - [DAG Orchestration: Cut AI Agent Latency 50% Fan-Out](https://particula.tech/blog/dag-agent-orchestration-fan-out-fan-in-latency-parallel-execution) - [Mem0 vs Zep vs Letta vs Cognee: Which to Use in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/agent-memory-frameworks-tested-mem0-zep-letta-cognee-2026) - [Long-Running Agents: Fix Context Bloat With Compaction](https://particula.tech/blog/long-running-agents-context-compaction-token-bloat-guide) - [Durable Execution for Agents: Temporal vs Inngest vs Restate](https://particula.tech/blog/durable-execution-ai-agents-temporal-inngest-restate) - [Agent Tool Selection at Scale: Fix Picking the Wrong Tool](https://particula.tech/blog/agent-tool-selection-at-scale-80-tools-wrong-one) - [Vapi vs Retell vs LiveKit vs Pipecat: Picking a Voice Agent Stack](https://particula.tech/blog/vapi-vs-retell-vs-livekit-vs-pipecat-voice-agent-platform) - [Mastra vs LangGraph vs Vercel AI SDK: TypeScript Agents in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/mastra-vs-langgraph-vs-vercel-ai-sdk-typescript-agents) - [Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 vs Google ADK vs smolagents (2026)](https://particula.tech/blog/microsoft-agent-framework-vs-google-adk-vs-smolagents) - [Reliability Lags Accuracy 7x: Why Agents Fail in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/agent-reliability-vs-accuracy-production-measurement) - [MCP vs A2A vs AG-UI: Which Agent Protocol for Which Layer](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-vs-a2a-vs-ag-ui-agent-protocol-comparison) - [Claude Code Source Leak: 7 Agent Architecture Lessons](https://particula.tech/blog/claude-code-source-leak-agent-architecture-lessons) - [Google ADK vs AWS Strands Agents: Which Cloud Agent Platform to Build On](https://particula.tech/blog/google-adk-vs-aws-strands-agents) - [SWE-Bench 2026: Scaffolding Moves 22 Points, Models Move 1](https://particula.tech/blog/agent-scaffolding-beats-model-upgrades-swe-bench) - [Context Engineering Is Replacing Prompt Engineering in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/context-engineering-post-prompt-era) - [LangGraph vs CrewAI vs OpenAI Agents SDK: 2026 Comparison](https://particula.tech/blog/langgraph-vs-crewai-vs-openai-agents-sdk-2026) - [AI Model Fallback: Rules, Retries, and Human Escalation](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-fallback-patterns-rules-human-escalation) - [AI Agent Communication Patterns Beyond Single-Agent Loops](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-communication-patterns-multi-agent) - [Multi-Agent AI Systems: Orchestration That Actually Ships](https://particula.tech/blog/multi-agent-ai-orchestration-that-works) - [Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents: When to Require Approval](https://particula.tech/blog/human-in-the-loop-ai-agent-approval) - [Function Calling vs ReAct Agents: Which Pattern Fits Your Use Case](https://particula.tech/blog/function-calling-vs-react-agents-patterns) - [How to Make AI Agents Remember Context Across Conversations](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-memory-context-management) - [AI Agent Reasoning Loops: Optimal Step Counts, 1 to 50](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-loops-reasoning-steps-optimization) - [When to Use Multi-Agent AI Systems vs Single Agents for Business Automation](https://particula.tech/blog/multi-agent-vs-single-agent-systems) - [How to Make AI Agents Use Tools Correctly: A Practical Implementation Guide](https://particula.tech/blog/how-to-make-ai-agents-use-tools-correctly) - [What is MCP? Understanding Model Context Protocol](https://particula.tech/blog/what-is-mcp-model-context-protocol) - [MCP vs API for AI Agent Integration: Which Protocol Should Your Business Choose?](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-vs-api-ai-agent-integration) - [The Most Common Mistakes When Building AI Agents](https://particula.tech/blog/avoid-common-ai-agent-mistakes) - [What are the Best Tools to Build AI Agents in 2025?](https://particula.tech/blog/best-tools-to-build-ai-agents-2025) - [How to Build Complex AI Agents?](https://particula.tech/blog/how-to-build-complex-ai-agents) - [input_json_delta Does Not Match Expected Tags: 6 Fixes](https://particula.tech/blog/input-json-delta-does-not-match-expected-tags) - [Anthropic API Error 529 Overloaded: Agent Retry Policy](https://particula.tech/blog/anthropic-529-overloaded-error-agent-retry-policy) ### [AI Security](https://particula.tech/blog/pillar/ai-security) Protect AI systems from attacks, ensure data privacy, and implement secure AI practices. - [NVIDIA Container Toolkit Security: 10 CVEs in 21 Months](https://particula.tech/blog/nvidia-container-toolkit-security-multi-tenant-gpu) - [llama.cpp Server Security Hardening: 6 CVEs, No Fixed Build](https://particula.tech/blog/llama-cpp-server-security-hardening-rpc-port) - [AI Incident Reporting: Which Regulator Clock Starts First](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-incident-reporting-which-regulator-clock-starts) - [Text-to-SQL Agent Permissions: The Role Is the Boundary](https://particula.tech/blog/text-to-sql-agent-database-role) - [Picklescan Bypass File Extension Mismatch: 6 Controls](https://particula.tech/blog/picklescan-bypass-file-extension-vet-model-files) - [Can You Use GitHub Copilot With CUI Under CMMC Level 2?](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-coding-assistant-cui-cmmc-level-2) - [How to Secure an Ollama Server Exposed to the Internet](https://particula.tech/blog/secure-ollama-server-exposed-internet) - [Presidio vs GLiNER for PII Redaction Before an LLM in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/presidio-vs-gliner-pii-redaction-llm) - [Vector Database Security: Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate, Chroma](https://particula.tech/blog/self-hosted-vector-database-security-hardening) - [Stale ACLs in RAG: When Revoked Access Still Returns Docs](https://particula.tech/blog/rag-document-acl-sync-stale-permissions) - [LiteLLM Security Hardening: The 1.84.0 Floor and 13 CVEs](https://particula.tech/blog/litellm-proxy-security-hardening-checklist) - [Confidential GPU Inference: The Real H100 Performance Tax](https://particula.tech/blog/confidential-gpu-inference-tee-performance-overhead) - [vLLM Security Hardening: The 0.24.0 Floor for CVE-2026-22778](https://particula.tech/blog/vllm-inference-server-hardening-cve-2026-22778) - [Multi-Tenant RAG: Silo, Pool, or Bridge in Production](https://particula.tech/blog/multi-tenant-rag-isolation-silo-pool-bridge) - [How AI Agents Leak Data: The Exfiltration Channel](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-data-exfiltration-channels-audit) - [Sandbox Coding Agents Locally Without a VM Using nono](https://particula.tech/blog/sandbox-coding-agents-locally-without-vm-nono) - [MCP Gateway: What It Does and Which One to Run in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-gateway-comparison-govern-agent-tool-access) - [Slopsquatting: AI Package Hallucination Rates 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/slopsquatting-package-hallucination-rates-supply-chain-2026) - [MCP Supply Chain Attacks: How to Audit Your Servers](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-supply-chain-attack-audit-tool-poisoning-2026) - [Agent Identity: Why API Keys Break for Autonomous Agents](https://particula.tech/blog/agent-identity-oauth-for-agents-api-keys-break-autonomous) - [Prompt Injection Still Wins 85%: What Benchmarks Show](https://particula.tech/blog/prompt-injection-defense-benchmarks-85-percent-attack-success) - [NeMo Guardrails vs Llama Guard vs Guardrails AI in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-guardrails-compared-nemo-guardrails-ai-llama-guard) - [Semantic Kernel CVE-2026-25592: How Prompt Injection Became RCE](https://particula.tech/blog/semantic-kernel-cve-2026-25592-prompt-injection-rce) - [MCP Server Security Hardening: Production Checklist (2026)](https://particula.tech/blog/mcp-server-security-hardening-production-checklist) - [EU AI Act Data Sovereignty: Frankfurt Region Isn't Enough](https://particula.tech/blog/eu-ai-act-data-sovereignty-residency) - [n8n CVE-2026-21858: How an LLM Chatbot Node Became a Full RCE Chain](https://particula.tech/blog/n8n-cve-2026-21858-llm-node-rce-hardening) - [Anthropic Mythos: Why the Most Powerful AI Model Won't Ship](https://particula.tech/blog/anthropic-mythos-project-glasswing-cybersecurity) - [3 LangChain CVEs in One Week: How to Audit Your AI Framework Stack](https://particula.tech/blog/langchain-langgraph-security-cves-audit) - [Microsoft ZT4AI Explained: Zero Trust for AI Agents in 2026](https://particula.tech/blog/microsoft-zt4ai-zero-trust-ai-agents) - [NVIDIA NemoClaw Explained: OpenClaw Gets Enterprise Security (GTC 2026)](https://particula.tech/blog/nvidia-nemoclaw-openclaw-enterprise-security) - [OpenClaw Security: 20% of ClawHub Skills Malicious, 5 Fixes](https://particula.tech/blog/openclaw-security-crisis-malicious-ai-agents) - [When AI Agents Delete Production: Lessons from Amazon's Kiro Incident](https://particula.tech/blog/ai-agent-production-safety-kiro-incident) - [Healthcare AI Attack Vectors That HIPAA Doesn't Cover](https://particula.tech/blog/healthcare-ai-attack-vectors-beyond-hipaa) - [HIPAA Compliant AI for Healthcare: Implementation That Works](https://particula.tech/blog/hipaa-compliant-ai-healthcare-implementation) - [How to Handle EU Customer Data in AI Systems (GDPR Compliance)](https://particula.tech/blog/gdpr-ai-eu-customer-data-compliance) - [Penetration Testing AI Systems: What's Different](https://particula.tech/blog/penetration-testing-ai-systems-differences) - [How to implement role-based access control for AI applications](https://particula.tech/blog/role-based-access-control-ai-applications) - [AI Training Data You Can't Legally Use: GDPR, HIPAA, FERPA](https://particula.tech/blog/data-privacy-ai-training-restrictions) - [How to Secure AI Systems Handling Sensitive Data](https://particula.tech/blog/secure-ai-systems-sensitive-data) - [How to Protect Your AI System From Prompt Injection Attacks](https://particula.tech/blog/protect-ai-prompt-injection-attacks) - [How to Prevent Data Leakage in AI Applications](https://particula.tech/blog/prevent-data-leakage-ai-applications) - [Triton Inference Server Security: 22 of 31 CVEs Are DoS](https://particula.tech/blog/triton-inference-server-hardening-version-floor) - [Ray Cluster Authentication: RAY_AUTH_MODE and Five CVEs](https://particula.tech/blog/ray-cluster-authentication-token-auth-cves) - [MLflow Tracking Server Security: Basic Auth Is Not Enough](https://particula.tech/blog/mlflow-tracking-server-security-authorization) ### [LLMs & Models](https://particula.tech/blog/pillar/llm-models) Understand large language models, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and model selection. - [Expert Parallelism vs Tensor Parallelism for MoE Serving](https://particula.tech/blog/expert-parallelism-vs-tensor-parallelism-moe) - [KV Cache Duplication Factor: Divide tp_size by KV Heads](https://particula.tech/blog/tensor-parallel-kv-cache-duplication-dcp) - 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