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Two paradigms for giving language models knowledge they didn’t have at training time — one statistical, one curated. When does each one win? Contents Introduction Foundations of RAG Foundations of an Obsidian-Based Memory System Comparison When to Use Which Conclusion References 1. Introduction Large language models have a memory problem. Their parametric memory — the […]

Alpha Compute announced on 8 May 2026 the handover of its first large-scale NVIDIA Blackwell deployment: a 504-chip B200 server cluster located in Canada, now in final testing and ready for AI compute customers. It is one of the first commercial-scale Blackwell clusters to come online outside the hyperscalers. Blackwell-architecture GPUs pack 208 billion transistors […]

The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the successor body to the US AI Safety Institute, announced on 5 May 2026 that it had signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI to evaluate their frontier AI models before public release. The deals expand a framework that already covered OpenAI and […]

On 13 May 2026, days before its I/O developer conference, Google previewed Gemini Intelligence: a system-level layer that pushes Gemini into the core of Android. The rollout begins this summer on the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel lines, then expands across compatible Android devices — phones, watches, cars, glasses, and laptops — through the rest […]

Google quietly shipped the Gemma 4 family on 4 May 2026, the next generation of its open-weight models. The release continues Google’s twin-track strategy: keep Gemini at the frontier of closed models while using Gemma to set the bar for what open-weight systems can do. Gemma 4 is explicitly engineered for advanced reasoning and agentic […]

On 7 May 2026 the European Parliament and Council reached a political agreement on the AI Act “Omnibus” package, a set of amendments designed to simplify Europe’s flagship AI rulebook before its toughest provisions take effect this summer. The deal pushes back compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems, which would otherwise have applied from 2 […]

Anthropic is in early discussions for a new funding round that would push its valuation to as much as $950 billion, the New York Times reported on 12 May 2026. At the top of the range, the AI lab would overtake OpenAI’s last reported $825 billion valuation and become the highest-valued private AI company in […]

Weekly AI digest — April 24 to May 1, 2026. If a single week could capture the strange duality of the AI cycle in 2026, this was it. On the same days that Big Tech reported eye-watering capital expenditure plans north of $700 billion for the year, Brussels could not agree on whether to delay […]