Beautiful weather this weekend. Got one ride with good climbing in and one with good speed. Wore a heart rate monitor for the first time in years

The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight • The Register

• But Qwen 3.5, Google’s Gemma 4, and Microsoft’s MAI speech and image models are a bit different. These models feel less like proofs of concept and more like enterprise products.
• “We’ve moved from interesting to now serious enterprise platforms,” Andrew Buss, senior research director at IDC, told El Reg.
• The models underscore a stark reality: the gulf between enterprise and frontier AI has grown considerably over the past few years, and the mower powerful models are beyond the means of many enterprises.
• “I think we are seeing a split,” Buss said. “We’re getting these larger, holistic models that are almost trying to be everything to everyone. But then we’re also seeing the rise of smaller, more specialized models that are tailored and geared to around more specific outcomes or query types.” 

AI spread through law. Here’s what happened next • The Register

• The legal profession has a long tradition of making junior employees work very hard with limited resources or support from seniors. In at least one case, the underling was told to use AI to generate a brief but was not given access to the legal database they needed to check cases. Saves money, right? That the legal profession can be as exploitative as any is no surprise. That it cannot help itself but get a taste for AI that overwhelms its judgment as surely as a nose full of cocaine is seemingly indicative of how dangerous AI can be. That the problem is getting worse is also a good indication that whatever the new models do better, hallucinations ain’t going away.

Tasks

• BS paperwork
• Do a first pass on the pancake printer post and tie it back to agentic systems and “brickable” homes