Welcome to Rami’s Readings #157 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami's Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, The VC Corner and from the AI in Action Conference in Montréal. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
🤖 AI Reads
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Notes: DeepSeek released a new version of their flash model. You can download the model checkpoint from HuggingFace. DeepSeek Pushes Out Updated AI Model It Says Is Faster, Leaner. Their new Search and Fetch API might be more interesting for subscribers to check out.
Introducing Timestral
Notes: Mistral released a time-series foundation model beating Google’s TimesFM-3 on a few benchmarks.
UltraBERT-Embed-150M
Notes: New dense embedding model. Cohere and others released embedding models recently, so I am not convinced of the SOTA claim.
Google’s Harness2
Notes: A framework for a recursive coding harness from Google.
OpenCode 2.0
Notes: A significant overhaul with a new client-server architecture and developer quality of life improvements. I’m upgrading my multi-agent setup scripts.
GLiClass v4: Multimodal, Instruction-Following Encoders for Every Decision
Notes: Neat model family for the GLiNER ecosystem.
💼 Business Reads
France Struggles to Contain Fallout From Nationwide Protests
Notes: The situation does not seem to be improving across the country. There are debates about intervention. Bond yields are high. Still not a good situation. Read #156 and #154.
AI’s Giant Money Loop Is Drawing Foreign Cash Like 2008
Notes: Fascinating article if you have any interest in South Korea.
AI Risk Is Everywhere and It’s Making Billion Dollar Funds Nervous
Notes: I am increasingly uncomfortable with my own portfolio’s diversification.
🔀 Other Reads
The Teal Programming Language
Notes: Statically-typed dialect of the Lua programming language.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.