Intelligence & Dispatches
Curated from the labs, the ecosystem, and the open-source world — with my take on what actually matters for real-world operations. Original sources linked on every dispatch.
Open weights, local inference engines, fine-tuning setups, and developer ecosystems.
GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund put $500K into 50 critical projects and paired maintainers with security experts and AI-assisted workflows. The headline lesson: AI accelerates investigation and response — but maintainers still decide what ships.
LiquidAI's LFM2.5-VL-3B is a 3.1B vision-language model that beats Google's Gemma-4 E4B — a model more than twice its size — and runs entirely on a regular laptop or even a phone. For simple chatbots and document tasks, local AI just got genuinely usable.