Chad Collins

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Retrieval, RAG & Search — September 28, 2026

Retrieval, RAG & SearchSeptember 28, 202638Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 The best LLM writes correct Elasticsearch ES|QL 59% of the time. Here's what breaks the other 41%. We gave four models 500 natural-language questions from BIRD's Mini-Dev set, asked each for one Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) query, and graded all 6,000 answers on whether the right rows came back. The best…

Agents & Agentic AI — September 28, 2026

Agents & Agentic AISeptember 28, 202643Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 v2.1.284 What's changed Added Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5), now the default Sonnet model on the Anthropic API — 1M context, $2/$10 per Mtok with $0.20/Mtok cache reads Added a "Yes, but ask again next time" answer to auto mode's prompt before a read… not repeating text typed very fast (for example…

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & Deployment — September 28, 2026

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & DeploymentSeptember 28, 202647Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 Manufacturing data and AI: Connecting the product value chain A manufacturing defect rarely belongs to one system. A scrap spike may relate to... [2] 2026-09-28 Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on…

Open-Source Models & Communities — September 28, 2026

Open-Source Models & CommunitiesSeptember 28, 202684Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 b11236 batch: migrate speculative, mtmd and server to batch_ext (#29385) adapt common add common_batch wip wip: spec cont common_speculative_process server_batch to use common_batch rm some stale calls Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 migrate mtmd handle imrope, handle return val of add()/add_embd() add spec zeros vector add warning on zero fill path Website:…

AI Industry News — September 28, 2026

AI Industry NewsSeptember 28, 2026190Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 Qiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge Qiagen N.V. is betting that drug discovery agents need a trustworthy knowledge foundation as much as capable models. For biopharma companies, that means giving agents information with clear provenance and enough context to support their answers. Knowledge graphs can provide that context layer…

Tech Trend Scanner — September 28, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 28, 2026106Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-28 FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed. [2] 2026-09-28 Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt…

GitHub Release Monitoring — September 27, 2026

GitHub Release MonitoringSeptember 27, 202653Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 v1.103.0 fix(proxy): unregister logging callbacks removed from the stored conf… [2] 2026-09-27 1.64.1.dev20260926 Streamlit nightly 1.64.1.dev20260926 Where Kimbodo Comes In Kimbodo builds and operates this in production for businesses — see our AI Application Development practice, or Estimate My AI Application. Sources [1] v1.103.0 [2] 1.64.1.dev20260926

Curated AI Newsletters & Summaries — September 27, 2026

Curated AI Newsletters & SummariesSeptember 27, 202656Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 The Sequence Radar - Issue 940: Last Week in AI: Opus 5.5 Gets Leaner, Meta Goes Wearable, Washington Talks to Beijing, and Claude Explores DNA Next Week in The Sequence:Another installment of our series about recursive self-improvement. We dive into Opus 5.5, DeepSeek’s amazing new paper about environments and Anthropic’s DNA…

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & Deployment — September 27, 2026

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & DeploymentSeptember 27, 202659Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter This week Cloudflare celebrates our 16th birthday. Like many 16-year-olds, we find ourselves looking around at the world we grew up in and feeling caught between the past and future. Also like many 16-year-olds, we look at all the change in… So this week we'll also be…

Open-Source Models & Communities — September 27, 2026

Open-Source Models & CommunitiesSeptember 27, 202667Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 b11222 common : avoid side effects around params parsing (#29537) register --rpc unconditionally and call llama_supports_rpc() only from its handler print server "initialization ..." log after args are parsed Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/50580981 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS…

AI Industry News — September 27, 2026

AI Industry NewsSeptember 27, 202684Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021,…

Tech Trend Scanner — September 27, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 27, 202669Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-27 Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop…

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