Albacel Reads Library

Library

Every post I’ve considered, picked or not, with one line on each, starting with Issue #3. Narrow it to a month, quarter or year, or by source and interest. “Not reviewed in full” means it was judged from a skim.

57 of 57 posts

  1. Picked · #4 Anthropic Research

    Building strong safety evaluations (opens in a new tab)

    Anthropic's method for building safety evals people can trust, from choosing what to measure to reporting uncertainty.

    Summary in Issue #4Building agentsAdvisingMarkets & safe use

  2. Considered Cloudflare: AI

    Kitesurf is now open source (opens in a new tab)

    Cloudflare open-sources Kitesurf, its lightweight browser for agents that runs on Workers. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  3. Considered Holistic AI

    Runtime Agentic Monitoring: tools, access control and cost (opens in a new tab)

    Holistic AI adds runtime controls for what agents can access, run and spend. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe use

  4. Considered Hugging Face

    llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem (opens in a new tab)

    llama.cpp reaches 1.0, with a commitment to versioned, stable APIs. Not reviewed in full.

    Inference stack

  5. Considered LangChain

    LangChain Raises $300M Series C at $3B Valuation (opens in a new tab)

    LangChain announces a $300M Series C at a $3B valuation. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe use

  6. Picked · #4 Google DeepMind

    Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen (opens in a new tab)

    Google's fast, low-cost Gemini 4 model, pitched as the worker under its frontier models.

    Summary in Issue #4Choosing modelsAI ecosystem

  7. Considered Google Developers: AI

    How Agent Anomaly Detection scores on benchmarks we didn't write (opens in a new tab)

    Google tests its agent anomaly detector on five outside agent-security benchmarks.

    Building agentsMarkets & safe use

  8. Picked · #4 OpenAI Developers

    Securing persistent agents like OpenClaw at OpenAI (opens in a new tab)

    The controls OpenAI uses to run hundreds of always-on agents internally.

    Summary in Issue #4Building agentsMarkets & safe use

  9. Considered Latent Space

    The Jev Revolution: What Engineers Are Already Building with System One Models (opens in a new tab)

    A conference report on what engineers are building with System One models such as Jev.

    Choosing models

  10. Considered Google Developers: AI

    A2UI 1.0: Build delightful, fast, reliable, agentic experiences (opens in a new tab)

    Google releases A2UI 1.0, an open protocol for agents to answer with native interface components. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  11. Considered Martin Fowler

    Tests as data: ensuring AI-generated code does what we want (opens in a new tab)

    Argues that when AI writes the code, tests should become customer-readable data files the AI can't quietly rewrite.

    Building agents

  12. Considered vLLM

    Encoder Disaggregation in vLLM: Scaling Multimodal Serving with EPD (opens in a new tab)

    vLLM's work on serving multimodal models with the encoder split from prefill and decode.

    Inference stack

  13. Considered AI Engineer ▶ Video

    225,000 Lines of Tests, Written and Merged by Agents - Kush Agrawal, Duolingo (opens in a new tab)

    A Duolingo talk on agents writing and merging 225,000 lines of tests. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  14. Considered Google DeepMind

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (opens in a new tab)

    Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, generally available. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing modelsAI ecosystem

  15. Considered Google DeepMind

    Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth (opens in a new tab)

    DeepMind's agents formally verify key security properties of the Signal protocol's code. Not reviewed in full.

    AI ecosystemBuilding agents

  16. Considered OpenAI Developers

    Pushing voice agents further: inside four GPT-Live builds (opens in a new tab)

    Four companies share how they build voice agents on GPT-Live. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  17. Picked · #4 Hugging Face

    Decision Models in Hugging Face (opens in a new tab)

    Hugging Face's common interface for decision models, which return probabilities instead of generating text.

    Summary in Issue #4Choosing modelsInference stack

  18. Considered LangChain

    How our GTM Agent builds consistent, high-quality sales artifacts (opens in a new tab)

    How LangChain's own sales agent produces consistent sales documents. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agentsAI business

  19. Considered LangChain

    How Workday Built an Enterprise-Scale AI Agent Platform with LangGraph and LangSmith (opens in a new tab)

    How Workday built an internal agent platform on LangGraph and LangSmith.

    Building agentsAdvising

  20. Considered Latent Space

    NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code? (opens in a new tab)

    A hands-on review of NaiveAI's very fast open coding model. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing models

  21. Picked · #4 Latent Space

    Designing for Agents — Zeno Rocha, Resend (opens in a new tab)

    Resend's CEO on getting picked when coding agents choose the vendor.

    Summary in Issue #4AI businessBuilding agents

  22. Picked · #4 Martin Fowler

    Long-horizon agents and durable execution (opens in a new tab)

    How durable execution lets agents run for weeks, and which failures the harness still has to handle.

    Summary in Issue #4Building agents

  23. Considered OpenAI News

    Work at the Frontier: AI's effect on freelance work (opens in a new tab)

    OpenAI research on how AI is affecting freelance work. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe useAdvising

  24. Considered AI Engineer ▶ Video

    Your Sub-Agents Are a Distributed System. Treat Them Like One. - Girish Konda, Microsoft (opens in a new tab)

    A Microsoft talk on treating sub-agents as a distributed system. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  25. Considered Anthropic Research

    Testing Claude on real-world electronics design (opens in a new tab)

    Claude designs three working electronic devices, from circuit boards to enclosures and firmware. Not reviewed in full.

    AI ecosystem

  26. Considered Spotify Engineering

    AI Product Management at Spotify: A View From Three Angles (opens in a new tab)

    Three Spotify product managers on how the AI PM role differs by what you build. Not reviewed in full.

    Advising

  27. Considered LangChain

    What Is Eval-Driven Development? How to Improve AI Agents (opens in a new tab)

    An explainer on improving agents by writing evals first. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  28. Considered Latent Space

    What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team (opens in a new tab)

    A deep dive into what frontier labs buy from Handshake's AI training-data business. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe useAI business

  29. Considered OpenAI News

    Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure (opens in a new tab)

    OpenAI's system for tracking and stopping model workloads across its research infrastructure. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe use

  30. Picked · #3 AI Engineer ▶ Video

    Your Coding Agent Can't Undo Its Own Mistakes - Tanmay Sah & Dolly Sah (opens in a new tab)

    Benchmarks for whether coding agents can recover from failures and undo what they did.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agentsMarkets & safe use

  31. Picked · #3 IBM Technology ▶ Video

    Why AI Models Run Faster on Some Chips: The KV Cache Effect (opens in a new tab)

    Explainer on why the same model runs at different speeds on different chips, centred on the KV cache.

    Summary in Issue #3Inference stack

  32. Considered LangChain

    Managed Deep Agents v0.10: Browser Use and Async Subagents (opens in a new tab)

    Release notes for LangChain's Managed Deep Agents: browser use, background subagents and Slack thread handling.

    Building agents

  33. Considered AI Engineer ▶ Video

    Don't Vibe Code Your Agent Infrastructure - Akshat Bubna, Modal (opens in a new tab)

    A Modal talk on building infrastructure for agents. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agentsInference stack

  34. Considered AI Engineer ▶ Video

    Your Financial Agent Needs to Show Its Work - Anirudh Veeraragavan, Fieldguide (opens in a new tab)

    A Fieldguide talk on making financial agents show how they reached their answers. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agentsAdvising

  35. Picked · #3 AI Engineer ▶ Video

    How to Get Frontier Coding Results at 70% Lower Cost - Nouha Dziri, Cohere (opens in a new tab)

    Cohere's experiments on teams of coding agents: when a lead plus workers beats a single agent, and at what cost.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agentsChoosing models

  36. Picked · #3 Anthropic Engineering

    The components of agent memory (opens in a new tab)

    How Anthropic designs Claude's memory: session notes plus an offline pass that corrects them against past transcripts.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agents

  37. Considered Anthropic Research

    Teaching AI to build scientific models (opens in a new tab)

    Guest post from Tübingen researchers on how AI is starting to help build scientific models, starting from neuroscience. Not reviewed in full.

    AI ecosystem

  38. Picked · #3 Google Developers: AI

    Agent Distraction (opens in a new tab)

    Google measures how often coding agents detour into stale TODO comments, and what those detours cost.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agentsAdvising

  39. Considered Hugging Face

    ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation (opens in a new tab)

    Ai2's ToyBlocks, a simple simulated world for studying what robot models learn and why they fail. Not reviewed in full.

    AI ecosystem

  40. Considered Hugging Face

    Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard (opens in a new tab)

    The Open ASR Leaderboard adds private test data for Egyptian and Nigerian English accents. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing models

  41. Considered LangChain

    Browser Use in Managed Deep Agents (opens in a new tab)

    LangChain adds a managed browser to Deep Agents, with sign-in handoffs that keep passwords away from the model. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  42. Considered LangChain

    How We Optimized Browser Use for Deep Agents (opens in a new tab)

    How LangChain tuned the browser tools its agents use, tracing inefficiencies and checking each change with evals. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  43. Picked · #3 Transluce

    Scaling Laws for Finetuning Effect Prediction (opens in a new tab)

    Transluce trains models to predict how fine-tuning will change another model's answers, and finds scaling laws.

    Summary in Issue #3Choosing modelsMarkets & safe use

  44. Picked · #3 Anthropic Research

    AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude (opens in a new tab)

    What scientists actually use Claude for, from about 207,000 sessions and a survey of 528 researchers.

    Summary in Issue #3AdvisingMarkets & safe use

  45. Considered Google DeepMind

    Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips (opens in a new tab)

    Google's video model update: 15-second clips, conversational editing and lower cost. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing models

  46. Considered Hugging Face

    New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation (opens in a new tab)

    NVIDIA adds four open Cosmos 3 checkpoints for interactive world and driving simulation. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing models

  47. Considered Hugging Face

    A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks. (opens in a new tab)

    The story behind Phonon, a small open text-to-speech model that runs on the device. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing models

  48. Picked · #3 LangChain

    Agents Are Going Async (opens in a new tab)

    LangChain's case for splitting an agent into an orchestrator that stays with the user and background subagents.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agents

  49. Considered LangChain

    LangSmith BYOC is now available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)

    LangSmith can now keep traces and evals in a customer's own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  50. Considered Martin Fowler

    The Data Product Platform Navigator (opens in a new tab)

    A maturity framework for platforms that serve data products, across operating and investment dimensions. Not reviewed in full.

    Advising

  51. Considered Mistral AI

    Le Chonk brings the brains. Studio puts it to work. (opens in a new tab)

    Mistral launches Mistral Large 4 and expands its Studio platform with managed agents and workflows. Not reviewed in full.

    Choosing modelsAI ecosystem

  52. Considered IBM Technology ▶ Video

    Are Vector Databases Still Needed? RAG, AI Agents & Search (opens in a new tab)

    An IBM explainer on whether vector databases are still needed for RAG and agents. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  53. Considered No Priors ▶ Video

    Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO Vlad Tenev (opens in a new tab)

    No Priors interview with Robinhood's CEO on tokenization and agentic trading. Not reviewed in full.

    Markets & safe use

  54. Picked · #3 LangChain

    Context Engineering (Agent Memory) for AI Agents Starts with Retrieval (opens in a new tab)

    Three kinds of agent retrieval failure and how to fix each, using a competitive-analysis agent as the example.

    Summary in Issue #3Building agents

  55. Considered LangChain

    Context Engineering with Deep Agents: How To Remember Without Keeping Everything In Context (opens in a new tab)

    Five techniques LangChain's Deep Agents use to keep long runs within the context window.

    Building agents

  56. Considered LangChain

    How Stripe Built Kai on Deep Agents in 1 Week (opens in a new tab)

    A LangChain case study on Stripe's knowledge platform built on Deep Agents. Not reviewed in full.

    Building agents

  57. Considered LangChain

    Own Your Intelligence: The Key to Lasting AI Advantage (opens in a new tab)

    LangChain argues that companies should own their agents' data and memory to keep an advantage. Not reviewed in full.

    AI business