Chad Collins

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Data Science, Python & R — September 24, 2026

Data Science, Python & RSeptember 24, 2026135Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Accelerate Your AI Journey with new Introduction Track at PyTorch Conference NA 2026 and PyTorch Associate Training As deep learning models move rapidly from research prototypes into core enterprise infrastructure, the demand for practical, end-to-end PyTorch expertise has never been higher. Building robust neural networks requires more than just high-level understanding.…

Retrieval, RAG & Search — September 24, 2026

Retrieval, RAG & SearchSeptember 24, 2026137Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Ask Elastic Agent Builder why it's slow: Natural-language trace analysis Ask Elastic Agent Builder how many tokens your agents burned today, and it writes the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) and runs it against your OpenTelemetry (OTel) trace data. Then it answers in the chat UI. The same holds for your… That…

Agents & Agentic AI — September 24, 2026

Agents & Agentic AISeptember 24, 2026116Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 v2.1.282 What's changed Added a maxProseWidth setting that caps the width of Claude's prose in wide terminals while tables and code blocks keep the full width Added a startup notice, and /status and claude doctor entries, listing telemetry variables in a project's settings… deleting a prompt line while a shell command…

AI Application Development — September 24, 2026

AI Application DevelopmentSeptember 24, 2026122Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 ggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta status We are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of ggsql 0.5.0, the first beta release of ggsql since the initial release back in April. While this release brings a lot of core improvements, the beta label marks the maturity of… Text is important in…

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & Deployment — September 24, 2026

AI Infrastructure, GPUs & DeploymentSeptember 24, 2026143Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Running open-Jev in SQL on Databricks Over the weekend, “System One” decision models such as Jev have launched, which are... [2] 2026-09-24 Deploy and manage coding agents at scale with the Unity Gateway CLI In the last six months, GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8, and Grok 4.7 all…

Open-Source Models & Communities — September 24, 2026

Open-Source Models & CommunitiesSeptember 24, 2026210Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 b11163 llama: add llama_batch_ext (#24669) (wip) add llama_batch_ext wip updated design updated impl change signature unused var demo common_prompt_batch_decode fix pos tmp disable test-batch-alloc fix compat nits: add const no more pos_max add comment about llama_batch_ext_set_embd_state handle n_embd_out properly rename api --> embd_token llama_embd stub llama_batch_ext_set_embd_state support both token + embd…

Foundation Models & First-Party Releases — September 24, 2026

Foundation Models & First-Party ReleasesSeptember 24, 2026120Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar [2] 2026-09-23 ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries. Where Kimbodo Comes In Kimbodo builds and operates this…

AI Industry News — September 24, 2026

AI Industry NewsSeptember 24, 2026843Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times) New York Times: Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of…

AI Infrastructure Deep-Dive — September 24, 2026

ResearchSeptember 24, 2026148Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 How growing Latin American midsize businesses are building in the AI era Latin America’s small and medium-sized businesses are the heartbeat of the region's economy — accounting for more than 60% of total employment in the region, according to United Nations estimates. And just like their enterprise peers, everywhere you look,…

Tech Trend Scanner — September 24, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 24, 2026236Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-24 You might not miss what Nikon removed from its cheaper full-frame Z5 IIC Nikon waited five years to update its full-frame Z5 camera to the Z5 II, but today it announced a new variant of last year's upgrade that removes features instead of introducing improvements in order to make it more…

Release & Changelog Watcher — September 24, 2026

Industry NewsSeptember 24, 2026219Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where…

AI Infrastructure Deep-Dive — September 23, 2026

ResearchSeptember 23, 2026174Views 0Likes 0Comments

Findings [1] 2026-09-23 How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows [2] 2026-09-23 From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock This post is co-written with Mauro Rallo and Patrick van der Plas from HEMA. When engineers at HEMA needed an answer,…

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