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I read and collected Arxiv whitepapers starting after the launch of ChatGPT. I copied and pasted excerpts into Word to track them. Then migrated to Obsidian. That vault of some 1700 papers is now online. I figured it was time to see if others would find the collection useful. My whitepapers were organized into some 90 categories, all of which emerged from paper topics. New categories became necessary with the discussion of new methods, techniques, models etc. If […]

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Author Generated The biggest Summit announcement wasn’t a new agent. It was Snowflake assembling the missing pieces: Context + Governance + Interoperability + Agents Snowflake Summit 26 wrapped up in San Francisco this week and if you were tracking the keynote in real time, the sheer volume of announcements was a bit overwhelming. New names, new products, rebrands, partnerships — all landing within about 48 hours. Quick disclaimer before we go further. I was not in that room. I was sitting on the other […]

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Scaling out: an infrastructure built on populations of diverse, coexisting adapters unlocks collective intelligence without retraining the foundation. For about eight months, I had LoRA completely figured out. Or so I thought. I knew the pitch: freeze the base model, inject two small low-rank matrices, train a fraction of the parameters, get most of the performance at a fraction of the cost. Practical. Efficient. A budget substitute for the “real” thing. I used it exactly that way — fine-tune a task […]

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For anyone who wonders whether AI safety promises mean anything: what one company refused to sign, what its rival signed instead, and the fine print that may quietly undo all of it. Made by Author. On February 27, the U.S. government did something to an American company that it normally reserves for foreign adversaries like Huawei. It designated Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, a supply-chain risk to national security. It barred every military contractor and supplier from doing […]

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Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research. Those ousted were Steven Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, who co-authored the published editorial; former ADA president Desmond Schatz of the University […]

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